Hands-On Science: Pig Hearts

Mrs. Sitner's visit to OLS.

Last week, the 7th and 8th graders took a field trip to St. Louis University for a hands-on lesson on the heart.  To prepare for their trip, Mrs. Sitner, an OLS parent and heart transplant coordinator RN, presented a detailed lesson on the structures of the human heart.  The students learned a great deal from Mrs. Sitner and then applied her lesson to the pig hearts they dissected at SLU.

Working in the lab at St. Louis University.

The SLU trip was hosted by their AIMS program: Adventures in Medicine and Science.  Through this program, OLS students saw the structures of a pig heart firsthand.  The SLU instructors guided them through the dissection process and informed them of the similarities between the pig heart and the human heart.

It was a tremendous day and an experience that the students will not soon forget.  Thank you to Mrs. Sitner, the OLS junior high faculty, and St. Louis University for making this lesson and trip possible!