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Badminton Anatomy

Posted by Alexander Delgado in Biology of the Human Body · Aziz · E on
In our project we learned the basics of badminton, the rules, the sport and the type of training involved when playing that sport, as well as how different types of tissues were affected in our body. We also got to know the types of injuries that occur in the sport as well as how to treat them and avoid them. In our poster we displayed info regarding all of theses topics mentioned, as well as images and small displays of the sport itself and the location of where the injuries that occur in badminton. During this project I learned a lot related to how muscles work and react to the stresses of the body during sports and I hope that by viewing and reading our project you will be able to learn as well. 
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Sports Physiology Mini-Project with Eric Porter and Lamier Howard

Posted by Dexter Le in Biology of the Human Body · Aziz · C on
In this project, me, Eric, and Lamier have studied to see how Football can impact your own body. This is a project for Anatomy class, and the whole journey has been surprisingly interesting. We found out how our tissues in our body are affected negatively and positively as a result of playing Football. Throughout researching on many scholarly sources like ncbi, we learned that Football injuries sustained from playing can affect the nervous tissues, muscle tissues, and connective tissues. Scraps will be noticeable on the connective tissues because an important joint, the kneecaps, usually take the first blow when a person falls down from running. Nervous tissue damage can result from head first collisions, and in Football, this can be similarly to the effects of a car crash. Finally, the muscle tissues are affected from this because these tissues drastically affect a player's performance. A player would need to be muscular in the lower body and upper body in order to be protected from injuries and run fast.

We will be doing an Arm Wrestle activity in which this shows how the easy it is to damage your brain. More information will be given during the presentations in class.​

Sources:

Francis, P., Whatman, C., Sheerin, K., Hume, P., & Johnson, M. I. (2019, February 11). The Proportion of Lower Limb Running Injuries by Gender, Anatomical Location and Specific Pathology: A Systematic Review. Retrieved February 9, 2019, from https://www.jssm.org/hf.php?id=jssm-18-21.xml#


Manke, K., Kuzminski, S., Clark, M., Fraser, M., Guskiewicz, K., Sundman, M., & Patrella, J. R. (2018, November 16). Playing high school football changes the teenage brain. Retrieved February 9, 2019, from https://scienmag.com/playing-high-school-football-changes-the-teenage-brain/


Orozco, G. A. (2018, October 25). Scientists uncover why knee joint injury leads to osteoarthritis. Retrieved February 9, 2019, from https://scienmag.com/scientists-uncover-why-knee-joint-injury-leads-to-osteoarthritis/


Alosco, M. L., Kasimis, A. B., Stamm, J. M., Chua, A. S., Baugh, C. M., Daneshvar, D. H., Robbins, C. A., Mariani, M., Hayden, J., Conneely, S., Au, R., Torres, A., McClean, M. D., McKee, A. C., Cantu, R. C., Mez, J., Nowinski, C. J., Martin, B. M., Chaisson, C. E., Tripodis, Y., … Stern, R. A. (2017). Age of first exposure to American football and long-term neuropsychiatric and cognitive outcomes. Translational psychiatry, 7(9), e1236. doi:10.1038/tp.2017.197


McCarthy, C. G., & Webb, R. C. (2015). The toll of the gridiron: damage-associated molecular patterns and hypertension in American football. FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, 30(1), 34-40.


Jussim, M. (2018, August 31). How 15 NFL Players Train and Get Shredded for the Football Season. Retrieved February 9, 2019, from https://www.mensjournal.com/sports/how-15-nfl-players-trained-and-got-shredded-2017-season/5-rob-gronkowski/


McGinity, M. J., Grandhi, R., Michalek, J. E., Rodriguez, J. S., Trevino, A. M., McGinity, A. C., & Seifi, A. (2018). The impact of tackle football injuries on the American healthcare system with a neurological focus. PloS one, 13(5), e0195827. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0195827


Olympic. (2017, February 05). Retrieved February 9, 2019, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBomDnyuXMw&t=0s&list=PL-292yfpAFGZYGk_5NE5Dtg1w4e2AQ8eN&index=12

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Physiology of Volleyball

Posted by Daniel Sinyal in Biology of the Human Body · Aziz · E on
In this project, my group and I was given the task to research about the physiology of a specific sport(volleyball). I found some interesting facts and it somewhat surprised me because I never expected to see injuries occurring in volleyball because of how little physical contact there is. Volleyball involves lots of extreme and intense movements that is pressuring the lower back, knees, hands, and at times ankles.
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Screenshot 2019-02-14 at 11.46.01 AM

Sports Physiology Mini-Project with Eric Porter and Lamier Howard

Posted by Dexter Le on
In this project, me, Eric, and Lamier have studied to see how Football can impact your own body. This is a project for Anatomy class, and the whole journey has been surprisingly interesting. We found out how our tissues in our body are affected negatively and positively as a result of playing Football. Throughout researching on many scholarly sources like ncbi, we learned that Football injuries sustained from playing can affect the nervous tissues, muscle tissues, and connective tissues. Scraps will be noticeable on the connective tissues because an important joint, the kneecaps, usually take the first blow when a person falls down from running. Nervous tissue damage can result from head first collisions, and in Football, this can be similarly to the effects of a car crash. Finally, the muscle tissues are affected from this because these tissues drastically affect a player's performance. A player would need to be muscular in the lower body and upper body in order to be protected from injuries and run fast.

We will be doing an Arm Wrestle activity in which this shows how the easy it is to damage your brain. More information will be given during the presentations in class.
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Lead Pollution and it's Effects on the Environment

Posted by Jada Reynolds in Environmental Science · Aziz · C on

I wanted to research lead pollution because lead is everywhere, even in places we didn’t expect at first. We’ve been learning about it being in homes and water during class and I was surprised because I always thought it was just in our pencils. Choosing this topic was meant for me to actually learn something instead of reciting back things I had already learned or already knew previously. And I did learn some new things.

Throughout the duration of the time we worked on the project, I tried to make sure every checkpoint was submitted on time and I wanted to make sure we had relevant information.

I think I tried to have more than just a video for our project when we first started recording and I just scratched that whole idea because the original video was worse than this one. Something I could’ve done better would be to edit and submit the video myself.

The most meaningful part of creating the PSA was learning new things, more than it being in the water and our homes, more than babies and young children being the most at risk of lead poisoning. I learned many organizations that help fight causes like this, I learned plants absorb lead through their soil, and lead can remain in dust indefinitely.

Q2 Littering Benchmark

Posted by Alexander Delgado in Environmental Science · Aziz · E on
In our project, we made a video relating to the littering problem here in philly. We made the video look similar to the recycling promo video on the media, but with some twists that make it funny, interesting and very educative. In the video we talk about how littering affects both the environment and people and everything in between. The reason why we choose littering as a topic was due to us acknowledging the fact that there is a lot of people who litter the streets of Philadelphia. Because of this, we wanted to know just how bad the problem is world wide, how much does it affect people and if there is anything we could do to fix the problem. In the project I contributed by promoting ideas, helping out in the slideshow and questions and also organizing the project overall. In the project I feel i did well in my acting as well as in being able to give proper ideas that were used in the project and video. However, I believe that the most meaningful part of the whole PSA was when we showed the statistics of the problem and showed just how evident this thing happens and how we can do specific actions to stopping the problem. 

Q2 Benchmark Littering PSA

Posted by Sarah Sam in Environmental Science · Aziz · E on
​I was adamant on picking littering as our topic because I see litter on a daily basis, with no action being taken to solve this issue. I find it absurd how something simple such as picking up after yourselves is such a heavy task for some individuals on this Earth. In fact, around one million birds and 100,00 marine mammals on average die each year because of litter in oceans. With this in mind, our video serves to educate people about littering with providing an example of someone littering and someone correcting that person on it. My part of this group project was majority editing the video. I also played a part in the video and helped write the script. Hopefully, our efforts have shown through our work, but if I had a chance to do things differently, I would condense the video some more. To conclude, I think that this whole project was memorable in figuring out how we wanted to present our PSA that would engage our audience, and more importantly make them want to contribute to defeating littering. 

VIDEO LINK - https://youtu.be/bXWl1N-0Au4

Nuclear Waste

Posted by Labaron Gunter in Environmental Science · Aziz · C on
​. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mEm_cBF5CM

So, our video is me and my great group members talking about Nuclear waste. In this video we talk about Nuclear Waste as whole at first I introduce the topic with describing and explaining the topic. Then Emmy goes more into depth about the problems that Nuclear waste cause to the environment. Lamier then, wraps it up with the conclusion on how to stop this from happening I contributed to the group by making the intro and also the script, information and citations.I think we did well in the info department but, not good in making it appealing and long
The most meaningful thing of the PSA was the topic which was Nuclear Waste and learning what our reactors do 

Q2 Water Pollution

Posted by Bahiyah Corbin in Environmental Science · Aziz · C on
Throughout this script, we created a script of students taking a test. Throughout the test, the students were talking about many key facts about water pollution. As a group, we chose this topic because we believe this is an important issue that is affecting many lives in the world. I contributed to this project by adding ideas and suggestions. One thing we could've did differently as a group is a being louder throughout the video.
https://youtu.be/m0K1HmVvtt4

Water Pollution

Posted by Shaiann Desvignes in Environmental Science · Aziz · E on
After doing research on water pollution I have learned a lot that I didn't know before. In our informational video we touch on what water pollution is and why you should care. Everyone is affected because water effects everything in our atmosphere, it affects the plants, our drinking water and much more. Me and my group all provided vital information when making the project, Jasmin did the editing, Elijah did the script, and I did the filming and video set up. The most meaningful part of the PSA experiment is that we learned new things that we didn't know before and that we made an informative video to share information with our peers. Water pollution can be caused by industrial waste, which can be disposed in the oceans. Causes the waters to not be safe to swim, not be stable for marine wildlife to live etc.
https://youtu.be/wY-pIfY1S2Q

Air Pollution in the U.S

Posted by Jyaire Oconnor in Environmental Science · Aziz · E on
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Summary: I came into this project kind of knowing what I wanted to do which made it easy. This topic is something I've been looking into for a while. So I was very comfortable in doing this topic and actually talking about it. Every one played a part in discussing air pollution Samuel talked about the affects Air pollution has on the body. Asaad talked about the laws that are in play or the laws being created to counteract Air Pollution. While I Jy'Aire O'Connor talk about the political views. Everyone approached this topic with open arms because we all have some history with it. How I can contributed to this project you may be asking? Well I threw in the history portion including a well known historical event. Some would argue that this event started the push for clean air. What I could've done more is include some more examples/history. We could've done a little bit better when it came to recording. A take away from this is paying more attention when it comes to air pollution.

PSA for mercury exposure

Posted by Devon Williams in Environmental Science · Aziz · E on
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_rkOeqrRcw

In our psa we discussed the issues about mercury exposure and what you can do to get it checked out and avoid the effects of it how it affects your body and what you can do to help solve the issue. chose this topic because I don't know much about the effects of mercury poisoning and what can I do to avoid it so In educating others I educated myself. I contributed to this project by writing half the script, and what I could've done differently was be more supportive in the first checkpoint.