Applying the Engineering Practices in Our Human Body Unit

3/14/2017

Sue Holland and Janice Woods – Middle School Science
The Newly Engineered Human Body: Come see how to add engineering practices to your unit on the human body systems: working prosthetic arms, concussion-preventing helmets, student designed human body projects.

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Kaki McLachlan

4/7/2017 12:36:48 pm

Inspirational! Thank you both for sharing the results of your collaborative work. Such a deep project that allows for student choice and engagement. Yay!

Mike Schulist

5/1/2017 10:19:19 pm

These ideas were awesome! (and to think I get to work with this all-star pair...). The prosthetic hand combined themes of compassion, science and engineering. I wish all projects had that much depth and buy in for kids. I get to see first hand how excited the kids are with these projects, and my hope is to have them continue to use engineering projects, or student's choice projects like the human body - to keep the kids interested and engaged. Great presentation!

Liz Naughton

5/4/2017 09:39:38 am

Ladies, you did a great job! I loved seeing all of the project opportunities available for the students. You play to the kids' strengths, allowing them to choose writing, drawing, modeling or another medium that lets the kids showcase what they've learned in a creative way. You cover so much ground in middle science -- I'm so impressed.

Ranae Roemer link

5/5/2017 11:02:20 pm

I was excited to see hyou prosthetic arm/hand activity because it gave me an idea for using something similar in my end of yer project. The video that accompanied the activity was inspiring and I'm sure sparked compassion among your students. Thanks for sharing this!

Jenn Stewart

5/9/2017 03:32:29 pm

Thank you for sharing your fantastic body systems lessons! I really enjoyed seeing your version of the prosthetic arm project and got some great ideas (and a great video clip) to add to my project this year. I was also really inspired by your concussion-preventing helmet project, and am looking forward to trying this with my students.

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