Applying STEM education in redesigning human organs for improving the motivation of biology students in biological scientific inquiry

This project comes from the idea of whether a human organ could be improved upon. In the lessons, I provided different perspectives to the students, such as heart disease and longevity as a rationale for the need for the redesign of the human body. The students selected their own favourite part of the heart to redesign in order to optimize the efficiency of the anatomical structural, physiological function, and/or the aesthetic and functional morphology; a redesign that might lead to, for example, lower risk of heart attack, and/or stroke. Through group work and interaction, students actively engaged in the learning process in order to understand the function and the structure of design in the functionality and vulnerability to disease of the human organ. By means of the design of such a curriculum for biology students through STEM education (design thinking process), it is hoped that students would be inspired to develop an interest in learning biology.