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The Gas Law Unit uses a variety of labs, including Vernier Labquests to collect real time data and to better understand the basic behaviors of gases. The physical behaivor of a gas can be described by four variables: pressure, volume, temperature and number of moles. Students learn the relationship between pressure and volume, volume and temperature, and pressure and volume in gases.

The High School offers the Project Lead the Way course Biotechnology Engineering. This course runs the entire school and is meant to be a survey of biotechnology. The course is broken into five units. The lesson being posted comes from the Biochemical Engineering unit. Due to PLTW copyright the lesson is being summarized and not completely reproduced. Lesson: Rapid Pathogen Identification- This lesson is done over a number of class periods with each section broken into a hypothetical "Day". Each "Day" is posted on the MAS kidshared drive and students access this drive and move through days at their own pace.The activity looks at a disease outbreak in Washington D.C. The students play the part of investigators called into assess the disease outbreak. The students use daily reports tracking a number of patients. Each day new patients are added as the disease progresses and new symptoms are added to prevoius patients until a picture of the disease begins to emerge. The students have a number of options as to how the diagnose the disease. They are first given symptoms which they reference on WEBmd. Each day the symptoms progress and eventually they are given a DNA sequence taken from the patients. They then run this sequence through a sequencing program called BLAST. BLAST is the Basic Local Alignment Search Tool which takes DNA sequences and queries them against a database of DNA finding the probable match for the DNA sequence. The following website is used for the DNA sequences: [] The students are able to use a real biometric database that contains DNA genomes of various organisms to help find the pathogen. Once the pathogen is discovered the students then lay out a plan to treat the disease and halt the outbreak. The plan is then written into a final report including title page, table of contents, flow chart, and patient histories. Students are responsible for daily log entries and detailed patient histories. Daily report sheet for patients.

Student report example.