Lesson 05 – Is It Easy Being Green?
Introduce the green chemistry shampoo challenge through an interactive ‘game show’ activity.
Introduce the green chemistry shampoo challenge through an interactive ‘game show’ activity.
Students use critical thinking skills to analyze a video highlighting how cosmetics are made and regulated. Student will distinguish between fact and opinion within the video.
Reinforce the 12 Principles of Green Chemistry through a bingo game using simplified versions of each principle and examples of the principles lived out in daily student life.
Students use the example of text messages to understand different uses of language, break down scientific terminology and explain the 12 Principles of Green Chemistry in simple language.
Students make their own glue in an over-the-top lab procedure. Once the activity is complete, students are challenged to improve the given procedure during which they draw out the 12 Principles of Green Chemistry in the process.
This document provides an overview of the unit along with a lesson sequence guide.
Students will consider ethical issues related to biotechnology and medicine and use data to support their opinions.
Students are introduced to biotechnology using a timeline.
Students learn the process of genetic modification with the use of recombinant DNA technology to produce insulin.
Students will consider desired traits for cats and determine how a breeder might combine different breeds to achieve those traits.
Students discover how and why organisms adapt through natural selection by exploring cat adaptations.
Students use dominant and recessive traits to determine the physical traits of their kittens and build a model of the kitten.
Students build a scientific model of their kittens’ chromosomes using cookie ingredients to show the pairing of chromosomes and common mutations (deletion, duplication, insertion, translocation).
Students will use parent genotypes to determine the kittens’ phenotypes.
Students gain knowledge of genetic terms (trait, allele, genotype, phenotype, homozygous, heterozygous, dominant, recessive) and determine several personal single-gene traits in this optional lesson.
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