Pre-K teachers participated in hands-on activities they can take back to their classrooms to teach students how the heart and lungs work during a UAMS Partners in Health Sciences workshop April 8.
Teachers received a take-home kit with a “dissectible” plastic heart model, a lung demonstration apparatus, plastic model of an artery and more. The workshop and supplies are part of the Partners in Health Sciences program, which offers free professional development for Pre-K teachers.
The event was coordinated by Bob Burns, PhD, director of the PIHS program and professor in the UAMS Department of Neurobiology and Developmental Sciences at the UAMS College of Public Health Building.