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Chatham
Hall, Chatham, VA
The Margaret Hall Foundation enabled Chatham Hall to purchase a 100-gallon
salt water aquarium this year that is being used by Chemistry, Biology
and Environmental classes to connect their specific content to real world
oceans and their inhabitants. The aquarium, which is housed in Chatham
Hall's Shaw Science & Technology Building, a cutting-edge teaching
and lab facility, also was instrumental in a 2004-05 independent study
project - The Chemistry of the Coral Reef.
Chatham
Hall students in the elective class, Veterinary Science: Anatomy &
Physiology, learn equine muscle anatomy by constructing and applying molding
clay onto a model skeleton framework. The Equiken models, purchased with
a grant from the Margaret Hall Foundation, allow students to apply clay
muscles from the point of origin to the point of insertion, in the process
learning the action of various muscle groups. Upon completion, the girls
will use these models fo a comparative anatomy study with the dog and
cat.

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