Designed for high schoolers, the 11 lessons and activities in the “TeachEngineering: Next-Generation Surgical Tools in the Body” unit module prepare STEM teams to design prototypes of laparoscopic surgical robots. After an introduction to the features of the abdominopelvic cavity, young engineers use Silly Putty, balloons, springs, and marbles to learn about tissue mechanics, viscoelasticity, equilibrium, viscosity, and elasticity, all concepts they need to design their robotic tools.
9th - 12th
Science, STEM
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the abdomen, anatomy, biomedical engineering, the human body, hospitals, design, engineering design, doctors, physiology, prototypes, robotics, technology resources, mechanics, medical technology, tissues, polymers, stretching, physical properties, balloons, behavior, viscosity, fluids, liquid volume, liquids, properties of matter, terminal velocity, unit conversion, unit conversions, volume of spheres, density, matter, graphs, hooke's law, microsoft excel, algebraic equations, linear equations, data analysis, linear functions, springs, dissection, elasticity, molecular structure
