Donors Choose:
The skeleton to provide structure to young minds

February 12, 2010

Ms. Spoth's students want to be challenged!

She teaches science to grades 9-12. Overwhelmingly, her students' interests lie in the medical field. By their request, she's offering anatomy and physiology this coming semester, and many of them are really looking forward to getting their first glimpse into a medicine-related course.

While there is enthusiasm about this new offering at the school, the classroom is devoid of any materials to help anatomy and physiology come alive to them. While this topic is one that can be easily observed and understood with the proper materials, Ms. Spoth felt without the proper materials it can become a task of memorizing terms that don't mean anything to students.

She turned to Donors Choose to obtain at least one life size model of a skeleton for the classroom to greatly enhance the students' investment and comprehension of the anatomy of the human body. Seeing what their body actually looks like underneath it all and understanding it all can be a "wow" moment for many students. More importantly, she felt that if she can make this as engaging a class as possible, students' interests in the medical field will be piqued and they will feel as though college and careers in the medical field are within their reach.


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