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MedLab: Heart Disease
Work hands-on with a human patient simulation robot, complete authentic medical tests and use an ultrasound simulator to diagnose and understand heart disease.

About the lab
- Grades: 7-12
- Capacity: 30 students
- Duration: 60 minutes
- Cost: $120
- Offered Tuesday through Friday at 10:15 and 11:45 a.m.
Next Generation Science Standards
Science and Engineering Practices:
- Asking questions and defining problems
- Developing and using models
- Planning and carrying out investigations
- Analyzing and interpreting data
- Using mathematics and computational thinking
- Constructing explanations and designing solutions
- Engaging in argument from evidence
- Obtaining, evaluating and communicating information
Crosscutting Concepts:
- Patterns
- Cause and effect
- Systems and system models
- Structure and function
- Stability and change
Disciplinary Core Ideas:
Middle School
LS 1: From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes
- LS1.A: Structure and Function
- LS1.B: Grown and Development of Organisms
ETS 2: Links among engineering, technology, science and society
High School
LS 1: From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes
- LS1.A: Structure and Function
LS 3: Heredity: Inheritance and Variation of Traits
ETS 2: Links among engineering, technology, science and society
Lab goals
Students will:
- Increase their understanding and knowledge of medical sciences and related career paths.
- Learn that one's health choices have direct effect on one's own health.
- Understand the connection between individual health and community health.
- Actively engage in hands-on, inquiry-based science investigation.
- Share Learning Lab-generated thoughts, ideas and questions with peers and program facilitators.
This program was developed under a Science Education Partnership Award from the National Institutes of Health.
