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Antibiotic Attack
Students examine how antibiotics work and why they are effective. In this antibiotic lesson, students discover that when harmful germs get inside the body, the immune system may not be strong enough to fight the germs off. Students play...
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Evolution and Antibiotic Resistance
Students investigate the increasing problem of antibiotic resistance in such menacing diseases as tuberculosis and influenza. They take on the role of staff at a public health agency who are trying to communicate the problem to the public.
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Evolving Resistance
Students examine antibiotic overuse and the evolution of antibiotic resistance in bacteria.
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Why Does Evolution Matter Now?
Students examine how natural selection creates antibiotic-resistant bacteria,
recognize applications of evolutionary principles for medicine, agriculture, and conservation, and discuss how science contributes to decisions in context of...
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Fighting Invisible Enemies
Students examine antibiotics, what they do and what things were like before we had them. In this antibiotics lesson students research bacteria and antibiotics then as a group prepare a written report.
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Outbreak!
Students study and research drug-resistant bacteria and the use of antibiotics. Through the use of the internet, and other resources, students gather information and create a board game. They discuss bacteria, antibodies, antibiotics...
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Bacteria: Friend or Foe?
Students examine a variety of environmental and industrial roles of bacteria. explore where bacteria can be found and distinguish bacteria from other organisms.
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Launching a Defense; Understanding the Human Immune System
Students research online to answer and develop questions about immune system, create Powerpoint presentation to share information with classmates, and assimilate information into pictorial and/or graphical description of immune system.
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Superbugs
Students research deep sea communities and discover strategies for combating antimicrobial resistance and write reports on it. They consider overprescription and prophylactic uses of antibiotics as causes for their ineffectiveness.
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Launching a Defense; Understanding the Human Immune System
Students research online to answer and develop questions about immune system, create Powerpoint presentation to share information with classmates, and assimilate information into pictorial and/or graphical description of immune system.
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Disease & Epidemics: Architects of History
Students explore disease and its relationship to history and literature. They investigate issues that range from early biological warfare and historical disease treatments, to observing today's race for the cure against current emerging...
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Ode to a Nightingale
Students read poems about Tuberculosis by John Keats. Using the poems, they identify similies, metaphors, personification and imagery. In groups, they make connections about the author's outlook on life and how his disease impacted his...
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Applied Evolution: How Will We Get There from Here?
High schoolers explore the basic process of natural selection and how people can manipulate that process today. The consequences of natural selection on daily life and the implications of evolutionary biology in basic and applied science...
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Germ Warfare
Students research superbugs. In this personal health lesson plan, students visit selected websites to investigate the use of antibiotics and the prevalence of staphylococci.
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What's Down There?
Investigate the coral reefs around Mokolai Island, Hawaii by researching and writing about improving the reef ecosystem. Learners map threats to the ecosystem and use the list of key words to assist in their descriptions
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Watch the Screen!
Can a sponge cure cancer? Life science pupils visit the drugstore under the sea in the fifth activity of six. Working groups research the topic then get hands-on experience by testing the inhibiting effects of several plant extracts on...
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Architects of the Coral Reef
Coral Reefs are the focus of a life science lesson plan. Upper graders look at how coral reefs are formed, how the animals and plants reproduce, and the variety of ways that humans benefit from coral reefs around the world. Groups of...
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Design a Reef!
Using a miniature coral reef aquarium kit, young ecologists model this unique ecosystem. They research various coral reef organisms and their niches, and they culminate the project by working together to write a report. Use this activity...
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Phineas Gage: “Medicine: Then and Now” Pre-Reading Activity
What did medicine look like a hundred years ago? Two hundred years ago? Invite small groups to conduct research on the history of a chosen medical advancement before reading Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science....
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Food Safety-Consumers Need the Facts
High schoolers begin by completing a survey asking them to rank their concerns about commercially prepared foods. They develop a definition of relative risk, and complete the "Pro or Con" worksheet. Students work in groups to make a...
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Life Saving Computing
High schoolers read an article on anthrax and complete a series of cloze activities related to the article.
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Bacteria and their viruses
Students listen and take lecture notes. They quietly watch a video on the bacteria and their viruses while taking notes on the video. They make 2 color drawings on blank paper, one showing a lytic virus and one showing a lysogenic virus.
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Ah Choo!
Students compare bacteria to viruses to find the differences. In this biology lesson, students research viruses they have been inoculated against, using the Internet. Students complete a graphic organizer of their research on common...
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Why Eat Organic?
Ninth graders explore the concept of organic eating. In this environmental stewardship lesson, 9th graders compare and contrast organic foods with conventional foods and discuss the benefits of eating organic foods.
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