Presenting Painless Breast Cancer Detection!

Students develop a painless means for identifying cancerous tumors.  In this imaging lesson students list the information that may be needed to answer the problem.

This lesson plan culminates the unit with the Go Public phase of the legacy cycle. In the associated activity, learners must depict a tumor amidst healthy body tissue using a graph in Microsoft Excel. In addition, students will design a...

This lesson plan introduces students to their task of developing a painless means of identifying cancerous tumors. Solving the challenge will depend on an understanding of the properties of stress and strain. After being introduced to...

Students explore Hooke's law while working in small groups at their lab benches. They collect displacement data for springs with unknown spring constants, k, by adding various masses of known weight. After exploring Hooke's law and...

In addition to the associated lesson, this activity functions as a summative assessment for the Using Stress and Strain to Detect Cancer unit. In this activity, students will create a 1-D strain plot in Microsoft Excel depicting the...

Students study Hooke's Law and stress-strain relationships.  For this spring lesson students create a strain graph in Microsoft Excel.