Take a Tour of a Medical Research Laboratory
5:15
Grades: 3 - 8
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: DMedicine-94**
Quick Ideas for Using the Video:
- Prior to viewing the video, have students talk in small groups about the type of equipment they think they would find in a scientific research laboratory. Have them share their ideas and why they think that equipment will be there. After viewing the video, were there items that they hadn’t thought of? Were items missing they thought would be there? Why do they think there might have been the differences?
- 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 lab.
- Have students make a list of new vocabulary heard in the video, find definitions, and use the words properly in a sentence.
*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.
