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My Mechanical Ear Can Hear!

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Students study the concepts associated hearing being aided by biomedical devices. In this hearing lesson, students investigate different types of hearing impairments and the biomedical devices that engineers develop to aid people with these disabilities. They look at images of the structure of the ear as the discuss the causes of hearing loss.

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biomedical hearing devices, hearing aide, hearing impairments, science
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Grade
4th - 7th
Subjects
Science
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Resource Type
Lesson Plans
Audience
For Teacher Use
Duration
1 hr
Year
2008
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Fine Print: Educational Use

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