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Teach Engineering: Move Your Muscles!

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This lesson covers the topic of muscles. Students learn about the three different types of muscles in the human body and the effects of microgravity on muscles. Students also learn how astronauts need to exercise in order to lessen muscle atrophy in space. Students discover what types of equipment engineers design to help the astronauts exercise while in space.

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Concepts

engineering, exercise, movement, space, stem, microgravity

Additional Tags

atrophy, cardiac, human body, skeletal, integrated teaching and learning program and laboratory, teachengineering, astronaut, engineer, muscle, support and movement

Classroom Considerations

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

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