Back in March we participated in the Invite a Scientist program through the UNC Science Festival. We visited a 6th grade class at Apex Middle School. You can see our post about our visit here.
Since then, we put together a lesson plan that can be used by late middle school or high school science teachers to introduce their students to the ideas of material properties, tissue growth and function, and how we hope to use 3D printing in medicine in the future. It ties in to the Next Generation Science Standards in the areas of middle and high school life science (LS) and engineering, technology, and applications (ETS) (more specific connections can be found in the lesson plan).
If you’d like to use our lesson plan, you can view and download it here or below. Please send a quick email to Stephanie (sdteeter[at]ncsu.edu) and let us know what you think, whether you opt to use it or not!
Lesson Plan_Understanding Mechanical Properties to Improve Current Knee Injury Treatments
