Welcome to Our Course!

Introduction:

We are delighted to work with e-NABLE to create and share this course. E-NABLE is an online global community of “digital humanitarian” volunteers from all over the world who are using their 3D printers for good. Historically, the approximately 20,000 e-NABLE volunteers in 100 countries have used their printers to make free and low-cost prosthetic upper limb devices for children and adults in need, now they are mobilizing to create needed materials to fight Covid-19. 

How to Use This Course: 

This online challenge can be done independently or in tandem with our longer-form 3D Printing Prosthestics to Teach Engineering, Anatomy, and Empathy professional development course. We invite you to present these lessons with your class in your own voice or share the videos directly with your students, depending on your needs. Each lesson or challenge includes a choice board of activities or specific follow up that you can assign to your students to complete and submit as evidence of learning. The lessons are designed to be applicable for a wide-range of students from elementary to middle school. Please feel empowered to adjust the lessons or follow-up assignments to meet the needs of your students. 

Lesson Breakdown:

We’ve broken down this series of lessons or challenges into seven parts: 

  1. Engineering Design Process
  2. Using Tech For Good
  3. What is a Limb Difference? 
  4. Getting to Know e-NABLE
  5. Understanding Our Anatomy
  6. Simple Machines and the Human Body
  7. Prototyping Your Prosthesis

Your students will: 

  • Learn about the Engineering Design Process.
  • Be empowered by witnessing the positive impact that “regular people” can make by using their imagination and resources for good. 
  • Engage in activities that strengthen empathy and social emotional learning while helping them gain a greater understanding of limb differences. 
  • Utilize design thinking and creativity to create a prototype of a prosthetic hand. 
  • Connect prosthetic prototyping to anatomy and biology learning goals. 
  • Learn about the simple machines found within the human body. 
  • Use analogous thinking to make cross-curricular connections.

Each challenge or lesson includes: 

  • Video introduction for teachers
  • A modeling of the activity that can be used as a resource for teachers or shared with students directly using the provided link
  • A choice board of activities with instructions for students to complete and submit as evidence of learning
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