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
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
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