From the desk of Michelle Rozell, Upper School Principal:

A week or so ago I was given the opportunity to substitute for Mrs. Brunson in Anatomy and Physiology.  The instructions that she left for her class was to complete a lab involving lungs and how they work.

We all know that we use our lungs to move air in and out of our bodies, but how many of us know how they really look and feel?  At one lab station Anatomy students were able to handle a desiccated sheep lung and realized that all the air space that lungs have make them extremely light – like Styrofoam.  Working at other stations students studied the effects of smoking on lung tissue while inflating both healthy and smoker pig lungs and studying the role of the diaphragm in lung function.

The best thing about this class was that because it was so small, only 3 students, each one could handle the lungs and do the hands-on stations as many times as they wanted.  I even joined in on the lab and learned things by watching the students and listening to them as they discovered just how lungs work.

I am so proud of these students and am thankful that Brook Hill provides an excellent learning environment especially with our small class sizes which enables the students to have opportunities to interact more in depth with the teachers as well as their peers.