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From Cradle to Grave

How can engineering let us see inside ourselves, improve sporting performancexe4l_med

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