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Good Stress: Building Better Muscles and Bones

Educator Guide

Description

The activity, Good Stress, appears in the Muscles and Bones: Activities Guide for Teachers developed by Baylor College of Medicine for NASA's National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI). In Good Stress, students will collect, analyze, and visually represent data to explore the effects of stress on the muscles in their hands.

Teacher note: Students should already have experience with scatter plots, box-and-whisker plots, and stem-and-leaf plots.

Instructional Objectives

The student will

explore the effects of stress on the muscles in their hands.
gain experience in collecting,analyzing,and displaying relevant data.

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