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.
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.
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.
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.
Students will explore pharmacokinetics and the ethical dimensions of drug development by analyzing drug efficacy and toxicity data, connecting biotechnology concepts to real-world issues like healthcare access and equity.
This two-week long mini-unit focuses on students completing an investigation and contributing their findings to Soil Science Lab, a citizen science project.
Students explore the health impacts of the Bayview-Hunters Point power plant and examine how community activism has driven change, reflecting on ways to take action on environmental health issues. This unit connects environmental justice to broader health topics throughout the semester.
Students explore local environmental restoration projects, examining the careers and skills involved in repairing ecosystems and addressing past human impacts on the Bay.
This summer I am supporting Amazon’s ACES team (Amazon Customer Excellence System). Within Amazon Devices, this team supports short and long term improvements of business processes. The goal of this ETP is to utilize the skills of quality methodologies (ex.