Touring a Medical Research Laboratory
5:15
Grades: 6 - 12
Video Description: Follow Dr. Kathryn Tristan, Assistant Professor of Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, as she takes you on a tour of a medical research lab in the Division of Rheumatology. Learn about the tools, equipment, and procedures that she and her colleagues use every day in their medical research.
Type of Video: Tour*
Unique Video ID: Medicine-7**
Quick Ideas for Using the Video:
- Have students list equipment and its purpose that would be found in a research laboratory.
- If there is a lab in the school , Have students compile a list of equipment that exists in the video that are also present in the video.
- Have students make a list of new vocabulary heard in the video.?
*Tours take students to laboratories, studios, workspaces, museums and other diverse “in the field” and community locations related to the area of study.
**The unique Video ID can be used to quickly locate a single video in the ET collection. This search function is designed to let teachers assign students to watch a specific video and have only that video appear as a search result. Just click on Search and choose “By Video ID.” Then type in the Video ID as it appears above. Be sure to include the dash.
