The sheer amount of terminology and conceptual knowledge required for anatomy and physiology can be overwhelming for students. Educational games are one approach to reinforce concepts. In this activity, students work in teams to review anatomy and physiology concepts by creating arrays of descriptive tiles to define a term. Once guessed, students use their spatial knowledge to locate the structure or process within the body. The game challenges students to think about course vocabulary in a different way and to pool their knowledge to get their classmates to guess the words. Pre-/post-test data reveal that students achieve statistically significant learning gains after playing the game, and a survey of student perceptions demonstrates that the game is helpful for learning vocabulary as well as fun to play. The game is easily adaptable for a variety of courses.
Introduction
Anatomy and Physiology courses are dense with terminology. Students struggle learning the vocabulary in addition to linking structure and function, explaining concepts, and making broader connections. To help facilitate understanding, instructors often turn to classroom activities that promote active learning. (Michael 2006, Lujan 2006, Jensen 2015)
Active learning strategies are diverse, but most focus on asking students to reflect on what they know and apply it through an activity. The rise of flipped and active-learning classrooms has resulted in the development of a vast collection of tools to
I have been progressing fairly well on my learning goals for semester 1, from the beginning of semester 1 until now from learning about anatomy to physiology and to hands on techniques. I cant believe my own self that in such little time that I have learnt so much. One of the things I have learned so far is the muscles origin and insertion following the bones of the body this allowed me to apply my knowledge on hands on experience such as palpation of the bones and muscles. Another thing I learned in this semester is from physiology class learning about the cardiovascular system and blood flow this allowed me to apply my knowledge from that into my clinical assessment for taking blood pressure and vitals for a patient. Overall I think my learning
This class has taught multiple skills required to be a paramedic. Some of these skills are assessing an injured person with a possible spine fracture, how to properly handle the situation while getting them inside the ambulance, and how to properly use the instruments and tools necessary for the given situations. I was also taught how to perform two major ways of CPR, also depending on if the patient has a back injury making it impossible for us to move them. Among these skills, we also learned about all the various systems of the body, their structures, functions and how to handle a situation in which a specific system is at risk or needs to be treated. The actual skills are very important to learn, but so is the medical terminology that is involved. This was another attribute of the medical field that this class helped me expand my knowledge in. These are all important pieces of information and skills that one has to develop and improve on in order to advance in the medical field, and one way to improve is by learning about the very basics of the human
I had the pleasure of meeting Kaylin this fall semester in my Anatomy and Physiology course. She is a high school student attending Wright State University to advance her education. She has successfully completed the first semester of a two-semester sequence in which she plans to finish the second part of the course next semester starting in January. Anatomy and physiology is a rigorous course and requires a great deal of face time in lecture and the lab. One attribute that has impressed me is that Kaylin is doing better than nearly 75% of her peers which are older and one would think better prepared.
Questions like What is a Ligand, or What is a antagonists role in the body are completely open ended and can lead to many different answers among students. Our game displays what role each section of the processes within the body does in a simple method using simple tetras like shapes. Instead of students trying to memorize a textbook definition and struggling to remember medical terms, students who play this game will figure out the roles of each part of the process naturally. No student wants to spend hours attempting to understand complex concepts. Our games goal is to motivate people to learn about these complex concepts. Giving students a means to study that does not feel like studying.
Anatomy and Physiology is a class that I feel will help with my body and how it works. This class can help me in many different ways but, specifically it could help me in 3 ways. Specifically this class can help me with diet, how to gain muscle, and how our organs work. Diet and muscle gain is something that i've struggled with and this class can give me knowledge on how to improve that. Our organs is something i find interesting because our body relies on them to do simple things in life.
Little did I know my junior year of high school that the new science teacher would change my life. Mrs. Norma Branham is her name, and I got the opportunity to take her Anatomy and Physiology class. Soon, I learned that she would be the toughest high school teacher I had ever had. Before working at my high school, Mrs. Branham had taught at the University of Virginia’s medical school. Therefore, since she was accustomed to the graduate atmosphere, her main priority was to prepare her students for the rigors of college science, and to accomplish this goal, she set her class up similar to a college class with more readings, projects, and lectures. Even though Mrs. Branham’s class was challenging, I learned more from that course than I have in any other class, both academically and personally.
My ultimate goal is to attend medical school, and I believe this program will lay a foundation for my dreams. This program provides a superb opportunity to further study the human body through a number of perspectives – whether that be neuroanatomy or histology – as well as to develop my abilities as an instructor. Although I do wish to practice medicine, I also see myself taking part in nurturing the education of the future medical students to come after me. This program will expand my knowledge of human anatomy and will facilitate the development of my educational skills so that I may provide to the succeeding generations of physicians. In return for what the program can offer me, I can provide not only my strong work ethic, but a true passion for learning about the human anatomy. I am driven by many of my passions to discover more about our world and how to apply it objectively or creatively to my endeavours. As a student enrolled in this program, I could provide my enthusiastic nature and creativity into both my learning and teaching experiences. My eagerness to bestow my knowledge onto others also motivates me to create new, intuitive ways of sharing this information that parallels with their unique learning
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To date, I am currently enrolled at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. I am pursing a Health Science Studies degree on a Pre-Med track. My course load is 17 credit hours including chapel twice a week, Christian Scriptures class, and a new student experience class required by every Freshman or transfer student attending Baylor. Along with those, I am in General Biology I, General Chemistry I, General Biology Lab I, General Chemistry Lab I, Calculus, and General English Composition. Although it is a vigorous course, a strong suit of mine is time management which is extremely helpful.
Define the terms anatomy and physiology, and explain their relationship using an example of a human structure with its corresponding function.
A student will pull a vocabulary word from a pile. The student will then draw an image of the word onto a whiteboard book. The next student will look at the image, then write a vocabulary word that he or she associates with the image. The next student will look at the word and draw an image on the next page. The last student in the group announces the word to the class. The word may morph during the game, but this provides an opportunity for the students to discuss where and why it changed.
One of the most amazing moments of that class was the chance that I had to visit a human anatomy lab at a local college. There college students showed us the cadavers they had been working on, allowing us to see the human body up close and personal. I saw the difference between a smoker’s lung and a non-smoker’s lung, exactly how a knee replacement works, and other insights to the human body.
Anatomy and physiology are like two sides of a sheet of paper: they describe the study of different things, but yet they are so closely related. Simply put, anatomy is the study of the structure of body parts, whereas physiology is the study of the functions and relationships of body parts (Tortora & Derrickson, nd, pg. 1). There is a commonly used language of special terms that health-care professionals and scientists use when referring to body functions and their functions (Tortora & Derrickson, nd, pg. 12). For example, the erect position of the body with the face directed forward, the arms at the side, and the palms of the hands facing forward, used as a reference in describing the relation of body parts to one another, would be defined as the Anatomical Position (Tortora & Derrickson, nd, pg. 12).
Aaron Sanns and Jonathan Bergman are the first two teachers who use flipped classroom, they provide supplying absent students with an online lecture they could watch from home or from anywhere they had access to a computer and internet including school or local library. They find