Creatively Solving the Body’s Problems : An individual or group exercise for understanding and offering a solution for a physiological problem, injury or malfunction. In order to do this exercise in a way that will have lasting meaning for you, answer these questions using what you know from A & P and fields outside of …
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Responding to Mistakes “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.” – Samuel Beckett – Why are some people so much more effective at learning from their mistakes? A new study by Jason Moser at Michigan State University is premised on the fact that there are two distinct reactions to mistakes, …
Movement & Music · Create accompanying movement for pathways or processes. Whenever you describe a movement – for example the alternate beating of atria and ventricles – try and demonstrate the movement yourself using your hands or other body part. Challenge students to come up with a movement that is representative. Have them all mimic …
Involving literature / movies * Have students read The Fantastic Voyage (or watch the movie) and look for accuracies and/or mistakes about what the voyagers encounter while traveling in their miniaturized submarine through the human body. * Have students add to the book / movie by writing a new scene wherein the characters encounter something …
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Creative Writing suggestions: Helping students to see the stories involved in A&P can increase interest. Have your students try the following ideas: · Write an advertisement for a body part / physiological pathway or process: film or present it live. · Write a limerick about parts or function. · Present a disease process from the …
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When students make connections between facts, ideas, pathways, processes, styles, fields of study or problems, they are more likely to: remember what they’ve thought about in making that connection; be engaged by the process and think some more; seek further information or connections. I don’t have evidence for this beyond personal experience as a teacher …
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