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Teach Engineering: Do You Have the Strength?

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In this activity, students squeeze a tennis ball to demonstrate the strength of the human heart. Working in teams, they think of ways to keep the heart beating if the natural mechanism were to fail. The goal of this activity is to get students to understand the strength and resilience of the heart.

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Concepts

biomedical engineering, engineering, stem

Additional Tags

anatomy of heart, artificial heart, cardiac muscle, heart, heartbeat, pump, integrated teaching and learning program and laboratory, teachengineering, heart strength, anatomy and physiology of body

Classroom Considerations

Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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