Practical and Applied Life Science

For Science this week, we began our Human Anatomy unit.  You have to start with the support structure, so we cut out paper sections of a skeleton, assembled it on poster board, and labeled the parts.  Seth hadn't realized before that the spine is made up of small individual vertebrae stacked on top of each other.

I had to shake my head, because he's seen our family chiropractor once a month since he was born.  I explained that when Dr. Bevis adjusts him, she's making sure all the vertebrae are "stacked neatly," like when he builds a block tower.  The structure is more stable if everything is aligned.  He immediately put this idea into practice:

subluxation, boo!

proper alignment, yay!

If that kid grows up to be a chiropractor, my life will be set.

We had an appointment later in the week, so we took their project in to show Dr. Bevis.

Dr. B and her well-adjusted patients