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Unit Overview In Just Passing Through: Designing Model Membranes, students explore organisms and recognize how engineering can help provide for the needs of a small animal. The unit begins with the storybook Juan Daniel’s Fútbol Frog, in which a boy named Juan Daniel living in El Salvador explores the field of Bioengineering in order to design a safe environment for his fútbol team’s mascot, a small frog. Over the course of the unit, students explore the concepts of biomimicry, conservation, and biotechnology. They test how quickly or slowly water passes through different materials. Like Juan Daniel, students then follow the steps of the Engineering Design Process to imagine, plan, create, and improve their own model membranes to provide water to an imaginary frog over a long period of time.