AY Honor Cardiopulmonary System - Advanced

Cardiopulmonary System - Advanced

Skill Level

1

Year

2021

Version

02.05.2024

Approval authority

Australian Union

Overview

This honor focuses on both the heart and lungs, and the vital role they play in providing our body with oxygen, through cellular respiration. This honor provides the ability for youth to get a hands-on, practical experience when looking at these organs, giving them the ability to perform dissections and grow their learning.

The Challenging Part

The most challenging requirement of this honor is probably this:

9. Safely participate in a dissection of a heart, observing and discussing the following:

a. Dissect the heart along the sagittal plane, so all four chambers and valves can be viewed.

b. Be able to identify and describe the role of each of the chambers.

c. Observe different thicknesses of heart muscle for left vs. right ventricles, and also atrium vs ventricles.