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Designing Swimming Prosthetics for a Dancer

Resource for Grades 6-12

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Designing Swimming Prosthetics for a Dancer

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Running Time: 6m 00s
Size: 22.3 MB

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Source: DESIGN SQUAD: "Water Dancing"

This asset is adapted from DESIGN SQUAD: "Water Dancing."

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Supplemental Media Available:

Helping Hand Activity: Leader Notes and Student Sheet (Document)

Helping Hand Activity: Student Sheet (Spanish) (Document)

Accessibility Features: Caption

Teaching Tips

Here are suggested ways to engage students with these videos and with activities related to adaptive technology.

After showing students this video, challenge them to design and build a “bionic arm” device that allows them to grab objects at far distances. Download the Helping Hand Activity: Leader Notes and Student Sheet. The Student Sheet is also available in Spanish: Helping Hand Activity: Student Sheet (Spanish).
After discussing this video with your students, show and discuss other videos from this Adaptive Technologies collection.
Show the full 28-minute episode, Design Squad: "Water Dancing", to see both teams work through the engineering design process from start to finish to create their final builds.