Museum of Science
Ei E: Just Passing Through: Designing Model Membranes Lesson 1
A storybook introduces the engineering challenge and context. In this story, Juan Daniel, a boy from El Salvador, learns about bioengineering as he designs his own model membrane. [18:27]
Crash Course
Crash Course Biology #5: In Da Club Membranes and Transport
Hank describes how cells regulate their contents and communicate with one another via mechanisms within the cell membrane. [11:44]
Museum of Science
Ei E: Designing a Model Membrane (2)
Students focus on the bioengineering problem of meeting the basic needs of an organism as they imagine, plan, create, test, and improve their own model membrane.