Article: UC-Berkeley students instruct kids in anatomy

Renada Rutmanis
University Wire
08-24-1999
(Daily Californian) (U-WIRE) BERKELEY, Calif. -- While the only information grade school students used to know about anatomy was that the neck bone was connected to the back bone, a University of California Berkeley class is offering the opportunity for youth to learn human anatomy using charts, pictures, preserved specimens, organs, models and even the occasional dissected body part.

The "Anatomy Enrichment" program was started by integrative biology professor Marian Diamond 20 years ago as a way of teaching students in kindergarten through seventh grade in the Albany School District.

"Grade school students get to learn about who they are and ...

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