8th grade activities

Applications of Technology students have just completed their measuring unit and will begin their next unit titled Biotechnology. Students will research information and careers associated with biotechnology, create a brochure about a career in biotechnology, learn about prosthetic limbs and then create a model of an artifical arm using foam board, straws, string and rubber bands.

To top off the unit the class will hear from a guest speaker, a fellow 8th grader, about how he lives with a disability. He has a positive outlook on life and is a great inspiration to teens with disabilities. Finally, students will spend one school day learning what life would be like without the use of their non-dominate arm.

Below is the unit information for the next three weeks as well as sites students will be using to research Biotechnology.

biotechnolgy rubric with artifical arm

Articles for intro to Biotechnology: (copy and paste into your browser)

https://www.bio.org/articles/what-biotechnology

https://www.biotechinstitute.org/go.cfm?do=Page.View&pid=23

https://www.genengnews.com/insight-and-intelligence/top-ten-biotech-jobs-most-in-demand-over-the-next-decade/77899666/