Join Stephanie Brunnett of Lab-Aids at the Massachusetts Association of Science Teachers Conference.
Join us for these workshops:
Modeling the Development of Antibiotic Resistance
Students use a model to explore the cause-and-effect relationship between inappropriate use of antibiotics and the phenomenon of the evolution of antibiotic resistance. As they use the model, students use mathematical representations to support their analysis of patterns and trends in the results and to develop explanations for how and why the population of bacteria is changing.
Modeling the Introduction of a New Species
Students develop a model for an ecosystem and then introduce a new species to explain how this new component in the system affects the flow of energy and cycling of matter throughout the ecosystem. The activity provides an opportunity to assess student work related to MS-LS2-3.