Materials and Resources
How will students use different technologies and resources?
Students will be able to research and create a presentation that explains and answers the driving question (How can nanomedicine be used to improve disease treatment?). Students will show knowledge about their specific chosen disease and explain how nanomedicine could be used to treat it. This will happen during the second week of the PBL, as students begin to meaningfully apply the knowledge that they have learned in the activities. Initially, students will complete labs (i.e., bubble lab, how small is small, silver sock, etc.) that will allow them to construct the required content knowledge of diseases and nanomedicine. The students will build upon this information by investigating the causes and results of their specific disease and present the final model to the class in a method of their choice (i.e., iMovie, youtube video, PowerPoint, Keynote, Prezi, Professional Poster Board, or anything else that is approved by the teacher).
Scroll down for a list of materials that teachers will need for each activity and additional resources that students will need to have access to.
Detailed Materials List for Activities:
Students will be able to research and create a presentation that explains and answers the driving question (How can nanomedicine be used to improve disease treatment?). Students will show knowledge about their specific chosen disease and explain how nanomedicine could be used to treat it. This will happen during the second week of the PBL, as students begin to meaningfully apply the knowledge that they have learned in the activities. Initially, students will complete labs (i.e., bubble lab, how small is small, silver sock, etc.) that will allow them to construct the required content knowledge of diseases and nanomedicine. The students will build upon this information by investigating the causes and results of their specific disease and present the final model to the class in a method of their choice (i.e., iMovie, youtube video, PowerPoint, Keynote, Prezi, Professional Poster Board, or anything else that is approved by the teacher).
Scroll down for a list of materials that teachers will need for each activity and additional resources that students will need to have access to.
Detailed Materials List for Activities:
Disease simulation
Silver sock lab
How small is small
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Sugar Cube Surface Area to Volume #1
Bubble self assembly
Self Assembly: Gummy Capsule
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Technology resources for students:
Hardware that may be used:
Howard Huges Medical Institute: http://www.hhmi.org/
Mayo Clinic: http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions
Centers for Disease Control: http://www.cdc.gov/
Square Space: http://www.squarespace.com/
Weebly: http://www.weebly.com
IMCreator: http://www.imcreator.com/
Avidemux - http://avidemux.sourceforge.net/
Resources to help in Research
Resources (see below) that may be used to help students in developing a better understanding on the use of Google as a search engine, and how to figure out if a site is a reliable reference tool. These may be used as resources when having a class discussion on how to successfully research a topic (posthole).
Hardware that may be used:
- One-to-one equipment or computer lab access
- White boards
- Digital camera(s)
- Video camera(s)
- Audio-Visual equipment (projector, screen)
- Technology to use for disease research:
Howard Huges Medical Institute: http://www.hhmi.org/
Mayo Clinic: http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions
Centers for Disease Control: http://www.cdc.gov/
- Technology to use for presentation implementation:
Square Space: http://www.squarespace.com/
Weebly: http://www.weebly.com
IMCreator: http://www.imcreator.com/
- Free Video Editing:
Avidemux - http://avidemux.sourceforge.net/
Resources to help in Research
Resources (see below) that may be used to help students in developing a better understanding on the use of Google as a search engine, and how to figure out if a site is a reliable reference tool. These may be used as resources when having a class discussion on how to successfully research a topic (posthole).
Experts: