PEORIA, Ill. — Your child can now bring learning to life with a new, 12-part series from OSF HealthCare.
OSF is celebrating National STEAM Day throughout the month of November by promoting STEAM learning for area students. It's all to inspire local kids to explore interests in science, technology, engineering, art and math.
To do so, the health care system is launching free lessons for its Anatomy Academy. The 12 sessions drop monthly, from now through 2024. Students can tune in live or watch pre-recorded sessions. They'll learn about different organ systems within the body, starting with the brain.
Schools, individuals and homeschooled students can all access the free learning sessions by registering on the OSF STEAM website. From there, they'll receive a series of QR codes to scan with their smartphone or tablet. These will trigger augmented reality images that bring the anatomy lessons to life right in front of the child.
“As we go through and we teach different modalities or different trainers or different human anatomy, we can change whatever it is that child is holding just through the QR code. And so, it really equalizes our ability to, not only teach remotely because we can put a trainer in any kid's hand anywhere, but also there's no cost barrier in our training," Noël Adams, vice president of Academic Collaborations and Operations at OSF Innovation Labs, said in a press release.
The series was developed by OSF Innovation engineers and faculty at the University of Illinois for 6th to 12th graders.
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