Anatomy Academy is a 7 week program that teaches 5th and 6th graders all about their anatomy, physiology and nutrition. Each week we taught a certain area in the body--for example one week we taught all about the heart, including taking our pulse before and after physical activity. All the kids love it when we come because we pretty much do fun activities that promote being healthy... and they also get no homework.
The program also conducts research aimed at fighting the childhood obesity epidemic, a HUGE problem in our country today.
Here is a video they made after the program began in LA last year!
For our program, we went to Freedom Academy, a charter school in Provo. Brigham (sorry for the major brag session ahead) is the head coordinator for the school, meaning he was over all 6 classes which have around 25 kids each, as well as all the 60 mentors (those are the BYU and UVU students that teach the kids). He did an amazing job :) The principal was even asking him to speak to all the students at an assembly.
I was in a 6th grade classroom and my mentor partner was none other than Isabel!!!!! (Isabel and I were on study abroad together in Spain :))
Here is our awesome group!! We both had sooooo much fun teaching all of our amazing kids!
If you are at BYU or UVU and want an awesome service experience, do Anatomy Academy! It is the best:)
Contact Dr. Wisco for more info! (He is the awesome professor that started this incredible program)
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