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.