| Title | A FLUID MEMBRANE MODEL |
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| Audience | Grades 11-13 |
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| Abstract | This activity provides a visual and dynamic way to learn and fully understand the mechanisms of transport across cellular membranes. Students create a "living" model using themselves as phoshpolipid molecules and protein channels. Other students toss crumpled paper balls at the living membrane to illustrate the process of passive and active transport. A pre-activity lesson is also included. This involves the use of an easy-to-make visual membrane model that is used on the overhead projector. A set of questions have been included as a follow-up. |
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| Author | Elizabeth Mota-Kenney |
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| Email | elizabeth.mota@dpcdsb.org |
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| Subjects | Advanced Biology |
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| Special Categories | Cross Age Instruction |
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| Unifying Concept | Evidence, models, and explanation |
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| Science and Technology | Understandings about science and technology |
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| Science as Inquiry | Understandings about scientific inquiry |
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| History and Nature of Science | Nature of scientific knowledge |
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| Science in Personal and Social Perspectives | Environmental quality |
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| Life, Physical, Earth Sciences | The cell, Structure and function in living systems, Motion and forces |
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| Other Standards | Science Teaching |
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elizabeth.mota@dpcdsb.org
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