Each child got to use a stethoscope to listen to his own heartbeat!
Dr. Mikey explained how many years of schooling and subsequent training is required to become a doctor. Right now, he is in 27th grade!
Michael devised a heart game to illustrate how the heart works. Some of the kids were "blood cells," and he was the "heart" - pumping/pushing them in the direction they needed to go - either to the "lungs" (teacher) or to the "body" (students sitting down). The "lungs" (teacher) gave the blood cells "oxygen" (paper), which the kids handed out when they were sent to the "body."
The "oxygen" papers that the kids passed out in the heart game had a heart diagram on them. The kids labeled different parts of the heart and then colored it to show where the red and blue blood flows.
Michael even brought a demonstration kit to show how he can close a hole (atrial septal defect) in a heart using a catheter (without cutting open the chest in surgery).
Gabi's classmates really enjoyed Dr. Mikey's interactive presentation on the human heart! Here are a few of the thank you notes they made for him:
This is Gabi's thank you note:
Awesome job, Doctor Dad!
ReplyDeleteJoel's comment:
ReplyDeleteThat was great! Geez.....27 years......your husband is so ..... advanced!!!!!!! I only made it to 23 years.....makes me feel like a dropout! That has to have been the best physiology lesson ever given to a 1st grade class. Seriously, with those drawings, they're probably ahead of a 1st year med student. So cool! I also thought it was funny how so many kids misspelled heart, but not in the way you would think. I would have thought a 1st grader would misspell it "hart" as it is phonetic. But several wrote "heat". Interesting! Tell Mikey that I would love to watch him do one of his surgeries.
Magda: What a great post!
ReplyDeleteMary-Beth: I love the "not a human heart!" card.
Caitlin: Best class visit ever! You had a game, coloring pages, and visual demonstrations? I bet the teacher was wowed. And I loved the cards. We get ones like that from our "mewseeum" field trips. But yeesh, 27th grade?
Lolo: I like that too "not a human heart". I did not realize that kids this age have a such wonderful thought processes.