Use your knowledge of biology to escape from this digital escape room.  Students should be familiar with using a dichotomous key, solving Punnett Squares, basic biology vocabulary, the characteristics of living things, how to use a codon chart/codon wheel, and the Central Dogma of DNA.

Work together as a family, or a group of students (you can use this in a co-op class if you have one laptop per group) to solve this digital breakout. And in the process, students will be learning biology and exercising critical thinking skills!

Hints are provided.

Suggested for grades 9 – 12.

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Students will be provided with some material to help them get started – a short lecture, links to sites explaining basics, articles, conflicting data, videos, or book suggestions. Some students may choose to read ‘hard science’ articles in primary journals, while others may choose a softer approach with articles from popular science magazines and sites. Instead of tests and quizzes, students write summaries, explore ethical implications, or address questions about the material. There is also a year-long project in which students write a short research proposal. Even if they don’t intend to continue in the sciences, most students find that this process helps them to understand how scientists work and why some question are so hard to answer. How do you ask a good question and break it into testable pieces? How do you get patients to participate? How do you judge if the experiment was successful?

On average, students will do 4 units per semester, with maybe a week or 2 of fill-in (there will be module that’s just ‘cool science stuff’ that they can pick and choose from when they have a leftover week or 2). But it will be flexible and students can do as few as 2 and as many as 6, depending on which modules they choose and how in-depth their research is.

Modules will include ‘allergy and immunity’, ‘cancer biology’, ‘prions and neurodegenerative disease’, ‘the microbiome’, ‘how to lie with statistics’, and ‘biological cycles and rhythms’. There are also suggestions for labs that students can buy and do for certain units, if they want to. Microbiology, for instance, lends itself to labs that one can purchase kits for.

There will be a required unit, ‘experimental design’ which students need in order to do their proposal (we talk about how to get participants to join the study, how to ask the right question, confounding effects, ethics, and why some questions are hard).
Instructor: Dr Dana Underwood (dana@fundafunda.com)

For: Grades 9 -12

Hours: 4-5 hours each week

Credit Hours: 1 High School Credit on completion of both semesters or 1/2 for one semester

Syllabus: Available here

Fall Dates: August 17 – Dec 11 (with a week’s break over Thanksgiving)

Spring Dates: January 4 – April 30  (any week in March can be taken for Spring break)

View One Module Here

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