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Technology in Anatomy Education, Technology in Education

Make Life Sciences Classrooms More Inclusive by “Shaking Up” Assessment

The Visible Body Blog · Make Life Sciences Classrooms More Inclusive By "Shaking Up" Assessment Click the play button to listen to an audio version of this blog post! Traditional assessment methods aren’t a one-size-fits-all fix—classrooms from K-12 ...
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Technology in Anatomy Education, Technology in Education

3D-ifying OpenStax Textbooks with Visible Body

What happens when you combine OpenStax’s free textbooks with Visible Body’s interactive 3D models? A lot of learning. OpenStax partnered with Visible ...
Anatomy & Physiology

The Biome Inside You: An Introduction to Gut Flora

The nineteenth century poet Walt Whitman famously wrote “I am large, I contain multitudes,” and though he wrote that over a hundred years before ...
Technology in Anatomy Education, Technology in Education

Why Visible Body Is a Great Match for Career and Technical Education Programs

Health sciences is the most popular track in career and technical education (CTE) programs in high schools across the United States, and many CTE ...
Technology in Anatomy Education, Technology in Education

3 Reasons College A&P Students Should Use Visible Body

So you’re a college student with a lot on your plate. You’re trying to reach that school/work/life balance, and you want an anatomy and physiology ...
Biology, Lesson Plans

Free Lesson Plan: Teaching Replication, Transcription, and Translation

DNA replication, transcription, and translation basics are an important part of any introductory biology course. Here’s a lesson plan instructors can ...
Pathology

How the “Crown Jewel of Epidemiology” Changed How We Look at Heart Disease

Did you know that Framingham, Massachusetts is home to both Visible Body HQ and one of the most important longitudinal medical studies in human ...
Biology

3 Creatures that Confused Darwin

When a 22-year-old Charles Darwin, fresh from studies at Cambridge, left on a voyage to circumnavigate the globe, nobody expected much. In fact, ...
Pathology

All About Itching

Are you itching to learn about itching? Everybody itches, but it turns out that the cause of pruritus (the formal term for itching) is more ...
Pathology

How Does Caffeine Affect the Body?

Did you know that caffeine is the most popular drug in the world? About 90% of North American adults consume caffeine daily, and the demand for ...