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Engineering for Life - From Cradle to Grave
How can engineering let us see inside ourselves, improve sporting performance
and give someone extra independence?
This exciting presentation, with lots of demonstrations and audience interaction, reveals how engineering improves our quality of life from before we’re born!
Watch a live ultrasound scan, discover how engineers can make playgrounds safer, how a jellyfish could contain the cure for cancer and even how we can preserve our bodies after death!
This show is suitable for Key Stage 3 and 4 groups, and adult audiences.
Curriculum Links
Key stage 3
- Cells can form tissues, and tissues can form organs
- That energy is transferred from batteries and other sources to other components in electrical circuits
- Magnetic fields as regions of space where magnetic materials experience forces
- Electromagnets
- Ways in which frictional forces affect motion
- The quantitative relationship between force, area and pressure
- Behaviour of sound waves
Key stage 4
- Structure of the human circulatory system
- How the kidneys remove waste products
- Defense mechanisms of the body
- New substances form when atoms combine
- The difference between DC and AC currents
- Reflection, refraction and diffraction of waves
- Uses of x-rays and gamma rays in medicine
- Sound and ultrasound waves, and some medical uses of ultrasound
Duration
45 - 50 minutes
Suggested audiences
- 11-16 year olds
- Adult audiences
- Festivals and events
We will need the venue to provide
- Power sockets
- Projector screen
- Two long tables
- Ability to darken room
