Bio Idea dumps

My Idea Dumps:

Semi-permeable membrane activity:

With ziplocks, sugar, starch and protein with indicators. Use X brands of ziplocks, and organic ones (starch made). Iodine (starch), Benedicts (mono- and di-sacharides), Berets (protein). Introduce: pore size and membrane thickness.

Watershed - paper/pen/spray

Popquiz- Rick roll

Statistical significance article

Jolly Rancher Transcription

near future madlibs exercise - write down "what if" statements and put in hat, draw, answer, mix and read.

pig dissection write up

6 hats

tick tack think

The Carbon Cycle Game

Intro activity: Poster "Questions for a biologists" with pictures

Predator/prey arming, go back and forth and give yur critter new features, declare a winner, make a poster

create a virus artifact

I am legend and virus

archer with no hands

Find cell phases under microscope

create stop motion of meiosis/mitosis (PMAT = "please make another two individuals")

Cell cycle: too many young cells in blood cancer diagnosis

"if it stands alone it is a chromosome" = remember what is chromosome

DNA privacy: Golden State killer and Geneology database and SNPs

23 and me - yah/neh

find a graph/visualization in the world

article: Down Syndrome: With Breakthrough in Testing, a Choice Becomes Tougher

Make something (a robot, a cell) with mixed media: wood, foam, hot glue, etc (Go to scrap)

community garden

citizen science project

What is your rose? Your thorn? (check-in)

evidence thought experiment: how do you know a family member is home even if you cannot see them.

Maker days (think children's museum)

The Secret Life of Lobsters: How Fishermen and Scientists pg 76-80 - animal research ethics

Convert abstracts to pictograms or strike out unnecessary words

collaborate with an art teacher

diamond of complication: research and writing

Do science methods as YouTube instructional video (avoid writing struggle)

make up a word to describe a sciene thing

3 d glasses and praying mantis only sees motion article

https://gizmodo.com/these-men-ate-poison-so-you-could-have-the-fda-1830069910

Movies

Contagion

GAATACA

I am legend (first 2 minutes)

NOVA epigenetics video

Attenburough nature films

Books

Brave New World

Biography of Cancer

Henrietta Lacks