by Jennifer Kaelin | May 23, 2023
Bioremediation Return to Lesson Menu Lesson Overview Summary This activity connects the engineered oil-eating abilities of microbes to large-scale bioremediation efforts. Students will observe microbes break down oil in water over the course of a few days. They will...
by Jessica Allen | Jan 25, 2020
Programming Phototaxis Return to Lesson Menu Lesson Overview Summary This is an open-ended programming lesson that models cell movement towards light. In this lesson, students are introduced to the idea of outlining a program as a series of scenarios and responses....
by Jessica Allen | Jan 25, 2020
Programming Module Return to Lesson Menu Lesson Overview Summary This programming lesson was designed to quickly teach the basics of programming a LEGO Mindstorm Robot in Open Roberta. It teaches programming through a series of programs. Many are purposefully “broken”...
by Jessica Allen | Jan 25, 2020
Programming Chemotaxis Return to Lesson Menu Lesson Overview Summary This is a programming lesson that models cell movement up a chemical gradient, model with the chemotaxis mat that has a white to black gradient printed on it. In this lesson, students build on the...
by Jessica Allen | Jan 25, 2020
Physarum Chemotaxis 2 Return to Lesson Menu Lesson Overview Summary This activity builds on the first physarum chemotaxis experiment. This iteration of experiments is a process that scientists and cellular engineers engage in regularly. Using computational thinking,...
