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Lesson Plan

Teach Engineering: Fighting Back!

Curated by ACT

This lesson describes the major components and functions of the immune system and the role of engineers in keeping the body healthy (e.g., vaccinations and antibiotics, among other things). This lesson also discusses how an astronaut's immune system is suppressed during spaceflight due to stress and other environmental factors.

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Concepts
anatomy, biomedical engineering, engineering, white blood cells, stem
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Additional Tags
immune system, lymph system, thymus, integrated teaching and learning program and laboratory, teachengineering, astronaut, suppressed immune system, anatomy and physiology of body
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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)