This is pretty cool: Earlier this month, a cardiologist (the father of an 8th grader at the school) visited Avery’s classroom to teach the first-graders about the human heart. From the school’s newsletter on the visit:

Dr. MacGregor and Jacob asked the first graders what they already knew about the heart (they knew a lot); then, using a model of the heart, they explained the heart’s structure and function and the causes and effects of heart disease and then answered questions from the class.

“The highlight of the presentation,” said teacher Barbara Eisenhauer, “was when Dr. MacGregor brought out three human hearts for the children to examine and touch. One heart was healthy, one heart was from someone who had had a heart attack, and the last heart was from someone with high blood pressure. By the end of the presentation, the children could tell which heart represented each condition.”

Little doctors in the making?

-M

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