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Teach Engineering: Kidney Filtering

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In this activity, students filter different substances through a plastic window screen, different sized hardware cloth and poultry netting. Their model shows how the thickness of a filter in the kidney is imperative in deciding what will be filtered out and what will stay within the blood stream.

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Concepts
biomedical engineering, engineering, stem, kidneys
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Additional Tags
dialysis, dialysis machine, excretory, hemodialysis, urinary system, integrated teaching and learning program and laboratory, teachengineering, filter, kidney, anatomy and physiology of body
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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)