Earlier in the year, our elementary school CSW classes learned about the structure of human hands by building working models showing bones, muscles, tendons, and ligaments.
In April, our middle- and high-school classes explored this topic by dissecting actual chicken feet. In addition to learning basic dissection techniques and safety, the students were able to do”hands-on” tests and observation of the actions way tendons, bones, and muscles interacted to move the digits of the foot.
Understanding the complexity of something as simple as wiggling our fingers is an important step in learning about human biology and anatomy. […]
As part of our continuing focus on water conservation, we helped our students understand the importance of caring for our watershed. In these […]
Gravity is the force that makes things fall to the ground, but what allows some things to fly or float? Why does […]
In many of our activities we encourage students to create and construct projects (primarily using recycled materials, of course!) that demonstrate the science […]
