{"id":1219,"date":"2021-12-01T15:01:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T20:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/networks\/?p=1219"},"modified":"2021-12-01T15:08:18","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T20:08:18","slug":"engineering-a-functional-pumping-heart-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/networks\/2021\/12\/01\/engineering-a-functional-pumping-heart-model\/","title":{"rendered":"Engineering a Functional Pumping Heart Model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of our curriculum and professional development efforts, we couple our NetSci hands-on activities with video-based activity guides.<\/p>\n<p>This activity follows from our networks and electric circuits unit by engineering a functional pumping heart model to explore the following questions:<\/p>\n<p>What makes our circulatory system a loop?<\/p>\n<p>Why is it important that the heart pumps blood in one direction?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L6d_wklhxy8\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Our networks in electric circuit guides and applications to the human body were produced by Michalina Jadick and Mable Lin. Our full teacher and student activity lessons can be found in our Development Portal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of our curriculum and professional development efforts, we couple our NetSci hands-on activities with video-based activity guides. This activity follows from our networks and electric circuits unit by engineering a functional pumping heart model to explore the following questions: What makes our circulatory system a loop? Why is it important that the heart [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1487,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[612,602,599,598],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/networks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/networks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/networks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/networks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1487"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/networks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/networks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1220,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/networks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/revisions\/1220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/networks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/networks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/networks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}