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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Affairs of the Heart: Mirrored Movements

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Model endoscopic surgery by constructing and operating a tool that extends a person's grasping ability, explore dexterity skills using a basic electric circuit and then design and create an improved remote tool.
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Handout
Other

Lemelson Center's Invention at Play: Surgical Robot Inventor

For Students 9th - 10th
Read a biography of Akhil Madhani, the inventor of the surgical robot, and about his teleoperated surgical instruments.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Stress, Coping, and Surgical Error

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a five-question quiz pertaining the passage "Stress, Coping, and Surgical Error".
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Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs Teachers: 21st Century Medicine: Cybersurgery

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Explore remote robotic surgery and describe how a surgeon can operate on a patient from any distance. Create a simple version of a stereoscope to demonstrate the phenomenon of generating three-dimensionality using left and right eye images.