Lesson Plan Summary Sheet
Teacher: Howerton
Subject: Biotech I
Topic: Unit B: Basics of Biotechnology
Day
9/20
Essential Question
What is the accepted
procedure for record keeping
in biotech research?
What are some equipment that
is used in the biotech lab
How do you practice lab
safety in a biotech laboratory?
Activity
□ Students will do Lab 1a: How to set up a
legal scientific notebook
□ Students will complete a lab equipment
scavenger hunt
Vocabulary
Procedure
REE, PE, PA
Summarizing Strategy
List five rules for keepingyour lab notebook
Students will
□ Do Lab 1b: Laboratory safety: Protecting
yourselves and your co-workers
□ Do Lab 12b: Using Material Safety Data
Sheets (MSDS)
PPE, MSDS
You arrive early to your job as a lab
technician in a research lab. You find the
police there with a crime scene tap across the
entrance of the door. The officer in charge
says “Your co-worker is dead. You’d think
he would have known better than to….”
You complete the story.
9/22
How do you perform and
record a good lab experiment?
□ Students will complete Lab 1c: Cheese
Production
9/23
How do viruses differ from the
other types of cells?
Answer the Thinking Like a
Biotechnician questions on page
11 of lab manual
Write a response to the EQ
9/24
How do you do a literature
research for your project?
How do microscopes help us
study cells?
Students will:
□ View a powerpoint and read pp160-161
and 254-257 of the BSCS textbook.
□ Create labeled diagrams that shows the
differences prokaryotes, eukaryotes and
viruses
□ Students will do literature research for
their research project.
□ Students will complete Labs 2c-d
Rennin
Chymsosin
Curdle
Viruses, Capsule, Host, Lytic,
Lyogenic
Bacteriiophage, Strains, Prokaryote
Eukaryote, Organelles
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Pre-lab 2c and d
Objectives, Stage, Condenser, Ocular
Course adjustment, Fine adjustment
Gram Stains, Wet mount, Resolution
Complete the Data Analysis
Complete the Thinking Like a
Biotechnician questions
9/21
927
9/28
How do the various parts of a
eukaryotic cell help it
function?
9/29
How can we identify which
biomolecules are present in a
substance?
9/30
What are the properties of an
enzyme?
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10/1
10/4
How are cells grow in the
laboratory for study?
10/5
How does DNA carry our
genetic code?
How does the cell make the
correct proteins?
Students will
□ View a powerpoint and read pp164165 in the BSCS textbook
□ Create a labeled diagram of a
eukaryote cell using functional
analogies as parts
Students will
□ View a powerpoint
□ Complete Lab 2a:Dissecting and
Examining its Components in lab
manual
□ Students will complete the Catalase
Lab
□ Students may catch up, pre-lab future
labs, or work on research project
Students will:
□ Complete the Pre-lab for Lab 2b
□ Complete Lab 2b: The Characteristics
of Model Organisms
Students will:
□ View films on gene expression
□ Students will do some dry labs on the
steps of gene expression
10/6
How do scientists manipulate
the cell in biotechnology?
Students will:
□ Paper and scissor modeling of genetic
engineering
□ Film on genetic engineering
10/7
What have you learned about
the basic scientific knowledge
needed to do biotechnology?
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10/8
What have you learned about
the basic scientific knowledge
needed to do biotechnology?
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Review a powerpoint on the unit
Wrapup and Review
Complete Notebook to turn in next
day
Test on this unit
Nucleus, Nucleolus, Endoplasmic
Reticulum, Ribosome, Golgi,
Vacuoles
Chloroplast, Mitochondria, Cell
(plasma) membrane, Cell wall
Make your own analogy for each of the cell
parts.
Prepare for a quiz on viruses, the cell and the
microscope
Pre-lab 2a
Lipids, Proteins, Nucleic Acids,
DNA
RNA, Amino acids, Simple sugars
Fatty acids, monomers, polymers
Complete the Data Analysis and the Think
Like a Biotechnician questions.
Protein, enzyme, substrate,
specificity, denature, structure
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List five facts about an enzyme.
Pre-lab 2b
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Media, Agar, Culture, Incubate
Aseptic, Laminar flow, Sterile
Cell culture
Complete the Data Analysis and the Thinking
Like a Biotechnician
Deoxyribose, Phosphate, Nitrogen
bases, Double helix, Antiparallel,
Replication,Nucleotides, mRNA,
Transcription, Translation
Amino acids, Codon, Anticodon
tRNA, Polypeptide
Recombinant, Plasmids, Vector
Splicing,, Transgenic
Genetic Engineering
Explain why DNA is called the
“blueprint of life”
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Rennin is used in the cheese industry to curdle
milk. Rennin is made in the stomachs of
calves but can vary from calf to calf. Explain
how could you use recombinant DNA
technology to improve the quality of cheese in
the cheese industry.
Write a Reflection about this unit and what
and how you have learned
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