Static Charge and Semiconductors
Students learn the importance of semiconductors in their lives. They observe through a laboratory experience how charged materials affect the voltage output of a semiconductor.
Bioengineering Design Challenge: Clearing a blocked artery
Following the steps of the design thinking process and acting as bioengineers, students will use everyday materials to design and develop devices and/or approaches to unclog model blood vessels.
Collecting and Examining Particles in the Atmosphere
True collaboration is difficult to achieve. We all have different ideas about achieving an objective. Often we are reticent in abandoning our ideas in favor of someone else’s. A collaborative approach can help to move a project forward.
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Do Changing Light Conditions Affect the Growth of Aiptasia?
Coral reefs are one of nature's most spectacular examples of biodiversity, largely due to the symbiotic relationship between algae and colonial polyps, the organisms that secrete the calcium carbonate shell that make up the coral reef.
From Jellyfish to Glowing Bacteria
Students will be making bacterial cells glow in the dark! In this lab the students will transform bacterial cells to express the Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) from a bioluminescent jellyfish. The students will then write a formal lab report and present their findings to the class.
From the Lab Bench to your Medicine Cabinet: Testing & Delivering New Treatment Solutions to Patients
Have your students ever wondered how drugs are tested before they come to market? Or how researchers choose their clinical research participants?
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History of Life Exploration
This lesson uses a historical context to provide a foundational, scientific basis of Earth’s history for high school students. Students will conduct individual internet research to learn when and under what circumstances events in Earth’s history took place.
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Home Sweet Home - Looking into our Ecosystem through a Little Lens and a Global Lens
This Education Transfer Plan (ETP) will introduce biology students to evolution’s ability to create rich and complex structural and behavioral characteristics among a variety of species and how these special features of the natural world are inspiring engineers to design new materials and process
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Immune System, Disease, and ELISA Assays
In this laboratory activity, students will develop an understanding of how antigens and antibodies work while experiencing a biomedical application of those processes.