Materials List:
Designing Medical Devices to Extract Foreign Bodies from Ears
https://www.teachengineering.org/activities/view/uva_eardevice_act
Each group needs:
- model ear canal (see attachment on how to assemble)
- 1½'' clay pot (available at crafts stores)
- 1½'' PVC pipe connector (available at hardware stores)
- plastic tubing ½'' outer diameter, 3/8'' inner diameter (available at hardware stores)
- o-ring to fit over ½" plastic tubing (such as Danco #8, available at hardware stores)
- vegetable bag from grocery store (only 2 or 3 are needed per class)
For the entire class to share. (You may not need all items; most are available from crafts or drug stores)
- small pebbles (required)
- popcorn kernels (required)
- clay
- glue dots
- scissors
- pipe cleaners
- rubber bands
- glue (rubber cement, hot glue, Elmer's glue)
- dowel rods (big and little)/small sticks
- miniature clothes pins
- paper clips
- wire
- small fuzzy pom poms, or other small fuzzy object
- tape
- tweezers
- magnets
- oral syringes (available at drug stores)
- any other classroom items or small item that could be included in the invention