Format
1. The Zoom room will open for groups to log on.
2. Liberty Science Center Facilitator will welcome students to the program and discuss rules of the program.
3. Liberty Science Center Facilitator prepares students by explaining the case they will be observing.
4. Overview of the Anatomy and physiology of the nervous system will take place before going live to surgery.
5. Surgery begins.
PLEASE NOTE: Should the patient become too ill for the surgical procedure (this can occur) the surgeon will speak to the students while a previously recorded surgery is played.
Objectives
The participants will:
- explore the roles of medical staff
- discuss careers in medicine
- discuss anatomy and physiology of an organ
Standards Alignment
National Standards
LS1A 9-12 -- Structure and function
LS1B 6-8 -- Growth and development of organisms
PS1A 6-8 -- Sturcture and Propertiesof matter
State Standards
Alignment to NJSLS - Science
MS-PS1-3 Gather and make sense of information to describe that synthetic materials come from natural resources and impact society.
MS-LS1-5 Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for how environmental and genetic factors influence the growth of organisms
HS-LS1-2 Develop and use a model to illustrate the hierarchical organization of interacting
systems that provide specific functions within multicellular organisms.
HS-LS1-3 Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence that feedback mechanisms maintain homeostasis.
Connections to NJSLS - English Language Arts
WHST.6-8.1 Write arguments focused on discipline-specific content.
WHST.6-8.2 Write informative/explanatory texts, including the narration of historical events, scientific procedures/experiments, or technical processes
WHST.9-12.7 Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects to answer
a question (including a self-generated question) or solve a problem; narrow or broaden the inquiry when appropriate; synthesize multiple sources on the subject, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation.