Lessons for 23-27 March, 2019

Learning will continue.

Given the guidance to ensure that we have both on-line and analog lessons available for you to  practice, reinforce and maintain your skills, your Biology teachers put together a menu of activities for you to try out to stimulate your minds.  

Out of the five activities for this week, pick your top three to engage in on your own time.

• Protein Folding: Help Researchers Stop COVID-19! Protein Folding and Research Opportunity Online (This is real! Researchers are actually using this information for testing purposes at UW!)
• Zoo cam: Practice your skills as a wildlife biologist by using webcams from zoos and aquariums around the country. 
• The Powerhouse of the Cell: Help Researchers Understand Cell Metabolism by cataloging mitochondria in real images of cells!
• Spring Observation of Phenomenon: Any excuse for a nature walk is great! Pick a place near you outside to record observations of how nature is being changed as spring arrives.
• Night Sky BINGO: Spend time outside each night and get a BINGO.

Want to see some of the more Biology related stuff that the 11-12 crew is doing?  This week we chose to focus on the science behind our nation's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.  Since it relates so well to the Epidemiology unit we were working on, feel free to try our these:

• Info graphical Understanding: Use your powers of logic and graphical analysis to think about how the media communicates science to us.
• What do we mean by “flattening the curve?”: Look at the current interventions being used in the ongoing battle against COVID-19 and their expected outcomes.
• Emissions, carbon footprints, and COVID-19.: What impact will our change to daily life have on greenhouse gas emissions?
• Exponential Growth and Epidemics. Investigate the mathematical modelling at work behind the science of epidemiology.
• What actually reduces a carbon footprint? Determine which choices humans can make that actually reduce their carbon footprints. You may be surprised at the answers.

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