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Human Anatomy Students Take Field Trip to Science Center
Human Anatomy Students Take Field Trip to Science Center
Students from Human Anatomy and Physiology visited the California Science Center on October 25 to view the exhibit Body Worlds: Pulse.
The exhibit “presents real human bodies in sickness and health. … More than 200 plastinated specimens of real human bodies — including whole bodies, translucent slices, and organs — are curated and presented in galleries that feature the different systems of the body,” according to the Science Center website.
The trip allowed students to see a side of human anatomy that is usually only available to medical practitioners.
“We certainly have good general resources in the classroom, whether they are photographs and computer software or plastic models of organs,” science teacher Dr. Todd Haney said. “However, the field trip gave our students the opportunity to stand and view various preparations of the actual human body and its tissues.”
The students were able to gain an appreciation for the size of various features and their position within the body, and the displays helped them to understand the degree to which different tissues are interconnected: muscle to tendon, tendon to bone, blood vessels to the intestine, etc., Haney said.
“The exhibit includes diseased tissues as well, making the consequences of smoking or alcoholism all the more real when you are staring at a black lung or a liver showing cirrhosis,” Haney said. “Hopefully the students enjoyed it and will have a better mental image of some of these structures as we continue our discussions on campus.”
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