NDLI: Help Bill! Bioprinting Skin, Muscle and Bone

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Help Bill! Bioprinting Skin, Muscle and Bone

Content Provider	TeachEngineering: STEM curriculum for K-12
Author	Asby, Nicholas Sickels, Angela Sheldon, Hunter Tasker-Benson, Ryan Allen, Timothy Peirce, Shayn M. Starling, A. L. Peirce
Copyright Year	2017
Description	Using bags of icing and mock 3D bioprinters made from ordinary materials, student teams design and then print their own prototypes for replacement tissues—bone, muscle, skin—for a fictitious patient. Doing this shows students the value of learning about complex cellular tissue composition and the development of medical technologies. Students operate mock 3D bioprinters in order to print tissue constructs of bone, muscle and skin for a fictitious trauma patient, Bill. The model bioprinters are made from ordinary materials— cardboard, dowels, wood, spools, duct tape, zip ties and glue (constructed by the teacher or the students)—and use squeeze bags of icing to lay down tissue layers. Student groups apply what they learned about biological tissue composition and tissue engineering in the associated lesson to design and fabricate model replacement tissues. They tangibly learn about the technical aspects and challenges of 3D bioprinting technology, as well as great detail about the complex cellular composition of tissues. At activity end, teams present their prototype designs to the class.
Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Rights Holder	University of Virginia Regents of The University of Colorado
Subject Keyword	Biology Life Science Measurement Problem Solving Science and Technology
Content Type	Text Video
Time Required	PT45M
Education Level	Class X Class XI Class XII
Pedagogy	Experimental Activity Lecture cum Demonstration
Resource Type	Hands-on
Subject	Geometry Biology Technical

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