Mechanical Station 2.2: Communications Module
Mechnical Systems in Health
Levers and Muscle Contraction
- Module Goal: To apply medical terms and concepts in reading and writing related to muscle contraction and antagonistic muscles.
- Materials Required: Computer with fast Internet connectivity.
- Applied Objectives: In completing this unit, you will:
- Interpret and analyze reading passages related to understanding your muscles and contraction.
- Identify the roots, prefixes, and suffixes for medical terms.
- Apply new medical terms in writing.
- Develop reading fluency through recordings of different kinds of passages.
- Write definitions and summaries.
- Write different kinds of sentences.
- Apply the skill of outlining in writing.
- Apply the skill of summarizing in writing.
- Analyze subjects through creating mindmaps.
- Pre-requisite knowledge- 6th grade reading level. Completion of Mechanical Lab 2.2
- Applied Terminology: Many new medical terms have been introduced throughout this station. You will learn their meaning by breaking them into their parts, and then you will practice using them in different forms in sentences and in writing exercises.
- Evaluation: Activities submitted in this module will be evaluated by the number of items completed, by the percentage of correct answers, and by rubrics.
Note on Grading: You will receive three grades in each of your communications modules: (1) for a project graded by a rubric; (2) for an assigned activity(ies) graded for completion and correctness; and (3) for completing and submitting at least five activities from the activities labeled with the icon representing "5."
Activity graded by the % of correctness of your work
Activity graded by the rubric
Activities from which you can choose five to submit
REMEMBER: To get credit for the Communications Lab, your coach needs to check the activities marked with the % and Rubric icons. You need to get at least 80% on both activities. You, also, need to show proof that you did at least five of the activities marked with the ‘5’ icon.
In this station’s lab, you were introduced to different kinds of muscles, lots of different parts inside of muscles, muscle contraction, and to the work of antagonistic muscles. You observed how levers work and how the different lengths of muscles around a fulcrum (pivot point) change the mechanical advantage of movement.
REFLECTION
1. What do you now know about levers? What are the three types you learned about? Can you describe them to your coach?
2. How are levers used in the world of work? Can you think of any tools that work as levers?
3.Which joints in our body work as levers?
In the next module, you will complete a variety of reading and writing activities.
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Links to Station 2.2 Modules
Lab Intro | Lab Presentation and Practice | Communications Intro| Communications Presentation and Practice| Math