Bacteria Breakdown – From Source to Solution
In this extension of the water testing lesson, students will conduct a focused investigation into seven types of harmful waterborne bacteria. They will explore the causes of contamination, potential health risks, and treatment methods used in the water industry to ensure public safety.
Beginning Python
This lesson introduces biotech students to Python programming, guiding them to import, process, and analyze data while learning basic coding concepts and writing simple programs to summarize datasets.
Design Your Own Sustainable City
This lesson engages students in designing a sustainable city by analyzing carbon footprints, exploring solutions, and presenting proposals. Students work in groups to identify environmental challenges and create infographics or presentations to communicate their ideas.
Dirty Water Reboot
Teams of students will investigate, develop, and test an apparatus that cleans a dirty water sample and describe how it works.
Expanding Applied Statistics in MS Science through Lines of Best Fit
This ETP teaches 8th grade science students how to analyze real-world data using scatter plots and lines of best fit. Students determine whether relationships are causal or correlational through group discussion and individual reflection.
Growing Together: Exploring Plants and Community at College Hill Learning Garden
Kindergarteners will visit College Hill Learning Garden to explore real plants, taste garden-grown food, and engage in hands-on activities that reinforce classroom learning about nature.
How Medicine Moves – Exploring Drug Discovery and Pharmacokinetics
Students learn how medicines are developed and processed in the body through hands-on labs and team-based biotech roleplay, designing and presenting a new drug concept while exploring real-world applications of pharmacokinetics and data analysis.
How Oakland Gets Safe & Plentiful Drinking Water
Students will answer some guiding questions (by doing internet research or being given a short reading) and then draw an annotated diagram of the process that yields safe and dependable drinking water in Oakland.