Just Passing Through: Designing Model Membranes
Science Topic: Organisms and Basic Needs
Engineering Field: Bioengineering
Country: El Salvador
Storybook: Juan Daniel's Fútbol Frog
This unit provides students with the opportunity to apply their knowledge of organisms and their basic needs through a series of activities related to the diverse field of bioengineering.
After reading the storybook "Juan Daniel's Fútbol Frog", students learn to think like bioengineers, as they play a "concentration" style card game and match technologies with their natural inspirations. Students are then challenged be bioengineers and design a model membrane that can deliver water to an imaginary pet frog in a controlled manner, helping the frog to meet one of its basic needs.
FOSS Connection: Animals Two by Two, Environments, New Plants
STC Connection: Organisms, Animal Studies
GEMS Connection: Terrarium Habitats
Insights Connection: Growing Things, Habitats, Human Body Systems
