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What Do I Need to Know about Heart Valves?
| Content Provider | TeachEngineering: STEM curriculum for K-12 |
|---|---|
| Author | Duplessis, Michael |
| Copyright Year | 2013 |
| Description | Students are presented with the unit's grand challenge problem: You are the lead engineer for a biomaterials company that has a cardiovascular systems client who wants you to develop a model that can be used to test the properties of heart valves without using real specimens. Students are presented with the unit's grand challenge problem: You are the lead engineer for a biomaterials company that has a cardiovascular systems client who wants you to develop a model that can be used to test the properties of heart valves without using real specimens. How might you go about accomplishing this task? What information do you need to create an accurate model? How could your materials be tested? Students brainstorm as a class, then learn some basic information relevant to the problem (by reading the transcript of an interview with a biomedical engineer), and then learn more specific information on how heart tissues workâtheir structure and composition (lecture information presented by the teacher). This prepares them for the associated activity, during which students cement their understanding of the heart and its function by dissecting sheep hearts to explore heart anatomy. |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Rights Holder | Regents of The University of Colorado Vanderbilt University |
| Subject Keyword | Biology Life Science Science and Technology Anatomy Heart Valve Physiology Human Body Biomedical Heart Bioengineering |
| Content Type | Text |
| Time Required | PT1H45M |
| Education Level | Class IX Class X Class XI Class XII |
| Resource Type | Notes |
| Subject | Biology Technical |
