Super Scientist

Exploring Your Body

Your body is a wonderful and fascinating creation. You can learn more about its structure and how it functions at the following locations:

• Learn about your heart at the Franklin Institute Science Museum


• Learn about your brain


• Look at lung tissue at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory's Lung Lab


• Visit the Digital Anatomist


• Learn about your immune system at "Cells Alive".  Be sure to check out your body's reaction to a splinter!

Curious Creatures

Some researchers need to use vertebrate animals like rats, mice, and other rodents for their studies.  Others can use invertebrates. Why is this?  Visit the following websites and learn about the curious creatures being used to answer some important questions in basic research.

Visit  neurobiology laboratories using:

• Leech


• Crabs and lobsters

Career Connections

• Careers in Marine Mammal Science


• Careers in Veterinary Medicine & Technology


• Careers in zoos and aquariums


• Meet a laboratory animal technologist