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Teach Engineering: Clearing a Path to the Heart

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Following the engineering design process and acting as biomedical engineers, student teams use everyday materials to design and develop devices and approaches to unclog blood vessels. They learn about the circulatory system, biomedical engineering, and conditions that lead to heart attacks and strokes.

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biomedical engineering projects, circulatory system, engineering design process, stroke, integrated teaching and learning program and laboratory, teachengineering, artery, blood vessel, heart attack
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Grade
6th - 8th
Subjects
Science
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Resource Type
Activities & Projects
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For Administrator Use
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0L

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