Ucon students get hands on biology lesson from ISU

Students at Ucon Elementary School in Bonneville School District 93 had a chance to learn about biology and organs with help from Idaho State University.

The Future Health Professionals of America club from ISU’s Idaho Falls campus came by the school on Friday to teach about the skeletal, cardiovascular, renal and pulmonary systems.

To get a hands-on experience, the club brought in different organs, like lungs, kidneys and a heart.

For kids who were a little nervous about touching organs, the club also brought plastic models.

“We just want to get them excited,” said Jade Wahnschaffe, the club president. “A lot of kids don’t want to do sciences and we just want to show them, it can be gross, but when they see the lungs inflate or they see how the blood moves through the heart, they get really excited. That’s what we want to see, we want to see them get into sciences.”

The club said the organs they used were from a cow at a slaughterhouse.

The Future Health Professionals of America club visits schools twice a year, once in the fall and once in the spring.