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Technology: Biomedical Engineering

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students participate in activities simulating various disabilities. After discussions, they work in teams to devise or improve on adaptive devices for people with disabilities. They include drawings of the tools they design and explain...
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Properties of Matter (Biomaterial Through Nanotechnology)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students investigate friction between different surfaces. In this physics lesson plan, students research biomaterials that can reduce friction. They calculate efficiency using a mathematical formula.
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Muscles, Oh My!

For Teachers 8th - Higher Ed
Pupils explore the human muscular system. For this science lesson, students discuss how engineering is related to the field of bio-mechanics and human movement.
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Help, I can't reach it!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students learn the major organ systems in the human body and research simple machines on the Internet; They design an informational brochure about a medical profession and present that career topic to the class.
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Strong as the Weakest Link

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students discover the types of stress that materials undergo. They examine how bridges and skyscrapers are built to withhold the tension. They create their own structure out of marshmallows and spaghetti.
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Innovations in Surgery and Reproductive Health

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine significant innovations in surgery and reproductive health.  In this surgery instructional activity students view a video and answer the given questions. 
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Science: Put Your Heart into Engineering

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine the heart and vascular system and the need for artificial valves. After explaining how heart valves function, they design their own heart valves for experimentation. They predict the speed of fluid flowing through...
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Soho Square

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
View the film Soho Square. Improvise sequences based around everyday locations and consider how theater and film differ in the way they engage an audience with the group of characters. Develop a group of performances using the extract...
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Teach Engineering: Put Your Heart Into Engineering

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This lesson contains background about the blood vascular system and the heart. Also, the different sizes of capillaries, veins, and arteries, and how they affect blood flow through the system. We will then proceed to talk about the...
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Orca Book Publishers: Leaving the Log House Teaching Guide [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Leaving the Log House, a novel by Ainslie Manson, follows a girl as she leaves home to get her first prosthetic leg at a hospital in the city. This teacher's guide includes a book summary, teaching ideas and the author's reflections...
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Teach Engineering: Tissue Mechanics

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students reflect on their experiences making silly putty (the previous hands-on activity in the unit), especially why changing the borax concentration alters the mechanical properties of silly putty and how this pertains to tissue...
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Teach Engineering: Engineering Bones

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students extend their knowledge of the skeletal system to biomedical engineering design, specifically the concept of artificial limbs. Students relate the skeleton as a structural system, focusing on the leg as structural necessity. They...
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Teach Engineering: Muscles, Oh My!

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars are introduced to how engineering closely relates to the field of biomechanics and how the muscular system produces human movement. They learn the importance of the muscular system in our daily lives, why it is important...

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