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A Zombie Got My Leg Challenge: Making Makeshift Legs
| Content Provider | TeachEngineering: STEM curriculum for K-12 |
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| Author | Ketchum, Megan Lee, Andrea |
| Copyright Year | 2015 |
| Description | Students experience the engineering design process as they design and construct lower-leg prostheses in response to a hypothetical zombie apocalypse scenario. Building on what they learned and researched in the associated lesson, they design and fabricate a replacement prosthetic limb using given specific starting material and limited additional supplies, similar to how engineers design for individuals while working within constraints. Students experience the engineering design process as they design and construct lower-leg prostheses in response to a hypothetical zombie apocalypse scenario. Like the well-known Apollo 13 story during which engineers were challenged to fix the crippled spacecraft with limited supplies in order to save astronauts' lives, in this activity, students act as engineers during an imaginary disaster in which a group member's leg was amputated in order to survive a zombie attack. Building on what they learned and researched in the associated lesson, they design and fabricate a replacement prosthetic limb using given specific starting material and limited additional supplies, similar to how engineers design for individuals while working within constraints. A more-advanced scenario challenges students to design a prosthesis that is able to provide a more-specific movement function. |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Rights Holder | Regents of The University of Colorado University of Houston |
| Subject Keyword | Biology Chemistry Life Science Science and Technology Amputation Medical Body Part Severed Biomedical Engineering Artificial Limb Functionality Prosthetics Amputee Prosthetic Composite Material Human Body Biomedical Prototype Design Project Prostheses Prosthesis Replacement Body Part Replacement Limb |
| Content Type | Text |
| Time Required | PT2H30M |
| Education Level | Class IX Class X Class XI Class XII |
| Pedagogy | Experimental Activity |
| Resource Type | Hands-on |
| Subject | Chemistry Biology Technical |
