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Teach Engineering: Kidney Filtering ActivityTeach Engineering: Kidney Filtering Activity
Publisher
TeachEngineering
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Grade
9th - 10th
Subjects
Science
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Resource Type
Activities & Projects
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For Administrator Use
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Lexile Measures
1200L
Activity

Teach Engineering: Kidney Filtering

Curated by ACT

In this activity, students filter different substances through a plastic window screen, different sized hardware cloth and poultry netting. Their model shows how the thickness of a filter in the kidney is imperative in deciding what will be filtered out and what will stay within the blood stream.

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Concepts

biomedical engineering, engineering, stem, kidneys

Additional Tags

dialysis, dialysis machine, excretory, hemodialysis, urinary system, integrated teaching and learning program and laboratory, teachengineering, filter, kidney, anatomy and physiology of body

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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