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Contact Information:
Elizabeth Bockman Eckberg
ebockman@swc833.org
Ph: 651.768.2583
Office Hours: 7:30am-8:30am MTuThF
East Ridge High School
4200 Pioneer Drive
Woodbury, Minnesota 55129

Students examine the interactions of body systems as they explore identity, communication, power, movement, protection, and homeostasis. Students design experiments, investigate the structures and functions of the human body, and use data acquisition software to monitor body functions such as muscle movement, reflex and voluntary action, and respiration. Exploring science in action, students build organs and tissues on a skeletal manikin, work through interesting real world cases and often play the role of biomedical professionals to solve medical mysteries. 

In the Medical Interventions course, students will investigate the variety of interventions involved in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease as they follow the lives of a fictitious family. A “How-To” manual for maintaining overall health and homeostasis in the body, the course will explore how to prevent and fight infection, how to screen and evaluate the code in our DNA, how to prevent, diagnose and treat cancer, and how to prevail when the organs of the body begin to fail. Through these scenarios, students will be exposed to the wide range of interventions related to Immunology, Surgery, Genetics, Pharmacology, Medical Devices, and Diagnostics. Each family case scenario will introduce multiple types of interventions and will reinforce concepts learned in the previous two courses, as well as present new content. Interventions may range from simple diagnostic tests to treatment of complex diseases and disorders. These interventions will be showcased across the generations of the family and will provide a look at the past, present and future of biomedical science. Lifestyle choices and preventive measures are emphasized throughout the course as well as the important role scientific thinking and engineering design play in the development of interventions of the future.

East Ridge NHS website Feel free to email the NHS leadership team with your questions at eastridgenhs@gmail.com.

The service requirement for NHS this year is 40 hours - broken into 20 NHS hours and 20 non-NHS hours. All hours may be NHS hours but you must have a minimum of 20 hours. Please get some of your volunteer hours by tutoring. In order to letter this year you will need to volunteer 60+ hours.


Please keep track of all of your own hours in an Exel spreadsheet for the entire year. You are responsible for keeping track of all your hours!

East Ridge High School
Elizabeth Bockman Eckberg