Week 3 Learning Goals
Explore biomechanics of the human body
Week 3 Overview
Learning Objectives
Students will investigate how an engineered interpretation of the hand works by building a low fidelity hand out of cardboard. Students can work in pairs or individually. This lesson will form a basis of understanding of the mechanics that will be studied further with the robot arm in lesson 2.3.5.
Before the Lesson
Students can get to work after hook.
Note: Allow students to do this on their own and work through any problems.
Hook 5 min
How can we use what we know about how the hand works to create an engineered model?
Today you will investigate this by creating a mechanical hand out of cardboard.
Activity 45 min
View Slides: 2.3.4. Mechanical Hand Tutorial
Reflection 10 min
Class Discussion:
Compare and contrast their hand to the mechanical hand using a venn diagram.
Student Handouts
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Student Materials
Student Device
Cardboard (Cereal box size or bigger)
Marker
Bendy Straws
String
Hot Glue Gun
Hot Glue Sticks
Scissors
Teacher Resources
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Web Resources
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