Bring Science Alive! Middle School Engineering Challenge: Cells and Genetics

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Bring Science Alive! Middle School Engineering Challenge: Cells and Genetics

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For this Lesson Experience, explore the engineering challenge, Designing a Prosthetic Hand.

Explore the amazing structure and functions of the hand and all of the pieces that make it function: bones, joints, muscles, tendons and ligaments.

In this engineering challenge, you will follow the steps below to design ideas for a prosthetic (artificial) hand with movable parts:

  • Define the engineering problem
  • Develop possible solutions
  • Optimizing the design solution

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TCI middle school science lesson experience about cells

About Bring Science Alive! Middle School Program: Cells and Genetics

TCI classrooms are active, fun, and immersive spaces where students confidently question and explore the world as scientists do. With our Bring Science Alive! Cells and Genetics program, students use evidence to explore traits, survival, and reproduction; they explore the structure and functions of body systems and cells; and they explore gene to protein to trait relationships. With this program, you get:

  • Meaningful Investigations
  • Classroom-Friendly Technology
  • Ongoing Teacher and District Support
  • High-Quality, Standards-Aligned Curriculum

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