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Teach Engineering: Muscles, Muscles Everywhere

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This activity helps students learn about the three different types of muscles and how outer space affects astronauts' muscles. They will discover how important it is for astronauts to get adequate exercise both on Earth and in outer space. Also, through the design of their own microgravity exercise machine, students learn about the exercise machines that engineers design specifically for astronaut use.

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Concepts
anatomy, biomedical engineering, engineering, skeletal muscle, stem
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Additional Tags
atrophy, cardiac muscle, microgravity environment, smooth muscle, integrated teaching and learning program and laboratory, teachengineering, astronaut, muscle, anatomy and physiology of body, muscle structure and function
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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)