recommends teens get about 60 minutes of moderate to vigorous exercise per day to keep their hearts healthy. Also known as "cardio" or aerobic exercise, moderate to vigorous exercise raise your breathing and heart rate/ these include brisk walking, dancing, biking, and sports that involve running such as basketball and soccer.
Recently, students in the Karabots Junior Fellows Program learned about body's hardest working muscle. Museum Educator Marcy Engleman led them through a lesson on the heart, examining its structure and its role pumping blood throughout the body. Afterwards, she guided them through a sheep heart dissection, allowing them to apply their knowledge and gain a hands-on understanding of the heart's anatomy.
Dissection is a popular activity among our aspiring healthcare professionals and regular readers will recall . This particular cohort is no stranger to dissection, having examined cow eyes and sheep brains during their short time in the program. As many in this group has expressed interest in surgery, these activities offer them a promising start in their journey toward their future careers.