{"id":525,"date":"2012-06-11T21:11:37","date_gmt":"2012-06-11T21:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/?p=525"},"modified":"2013-06-24T13:24:23","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T13:24:23","slug":"olympic-bioengineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/2012\/06\/11\/olympic-bioengineering\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic Bioengineering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I was discussing with practitioners using the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.educationscotland.gov.uk\/stemcentral\/contexts\/bioengineering\/index.asp\"> STEM Central Bioengineering<\/a> context, and this free <a href=\"http:\/\/www.millgatehouse.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/CC-Talking-Sport-and-Fitness.pdf\">Super Legs Concept Cartoon <\/a>provides a nice link between bioengineering and the Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>Learners could consider the experience of athlete <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oscarpistorius.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=1223&amp;Itemid=29\">Oscar Pistorius<\/a>, or that of Claire Lomas. Claire was paralysed in a horse riding accident in 2006, and\u00a0was recently\u00a0the first person to complete a marathon (in this case The London Marathon) \u00a0in\u00a0a \u201cbionic\u201d suit, taking 16\u00a0days to complete the 26.2 mile course.\u00a0\u00a0Find out more about how bioengineering and technology can change lives from\u00a0BBC News <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-17988108\">Paralysed Woman Claire Lomas treasures 16-day London Marathon<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-leicestershire-17988848\">\u201c\u2018Bionic\u2019 woman Claire Lomas completes London Marathon\u201d<\/a> and from the company which made the\u00a0\u201dbionic\u201d suit <a href=\"http:\/\/rewalk.us\/\">ReWalk Bionics Research<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/public\/STEMcentralinmotion\/uploads\/sites\/1544\/2012\/06\/prosthetic_260_tcm4-685538.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"526\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/2012\/06\/11\/olympic-bioengineering\/prosthetic_260_tcm4-685538\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/public\/STEMcentralinmotion\/uploads\/sites\/1544\/2012\/06\/prosthetic_260_tcm4-685538.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"260,210\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"prosthetic_260_tcm4-685538\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/public\/STEMcentralinmotion\/uploads\/sites\/1544\/2012\/06\/prosthetic_260_tcm4-685538.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/public\/STEMcentralinmotion\/uploads\/sites\/1544\/2012\/06\/prosthetic_260_tcm4-685538.jpg\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-526\" title=\"prosthetic_260_tcm4-685538\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/public\/STEMcentralinmotion\/uploads\/sites\/1544\/2012\/06\/prosthetic_260_tcm4-685538.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Bioengineering learning journeys are focused on third and fourth level, but the ideas and interactives could be translated for work across first and second level.\u00a0 Exploring prosthetic design could incorporate Glow Science videos such as\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.glowscience.org.uk\/mindmap\/#!\/biology\/human_body\/muscles_and_bones\">The Movement of Joints<\/a>, or perhaps the learners might be interested in finding out what we know about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glowscience.org.uk\/mindmap\/#!\/biology\/human_body\/muscles_and_bones\">Ancient Olympians <\/a>from the discovery of a 2000 year old skeleton?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I was discussing with practitioners using the STEM Central Bioengineering context, and this free Super Legs Concept Cartoon provides a nice link between bioengineering and the Olympics. Learners could consider the experience of athlete Oscar Pistorius, or that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/2012\/06\/11\/olympic-bioengineering\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10944,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3524,82,4755,827,608,4754,631,84],"tags":[34],"class_list":["post-525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-first","category-forth","category-health-wellbeing","category-sciences","category-secong","category-technologies","category-third","tag-glow"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10944"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":528,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions\/528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/STEMcentralinmotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}