An Introduction to Biotechnology: Book 2
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Program Overview
The Foundations and Challenges to Encourage Technology-based Science (FACETS) program consists of 3 series of 8 modules each for grades 6-8. Each module focuses on a topic in the life, earth, or physical sciences. The time needed to complete FACETS modules varies from 2 to 4 weeks. Each module consists of a student book and a teacher's guide.
Student Edition
Recommended grade level:
6.
In the 2-week module Keeping Fit, students consider the importance of keeping fit by investigating some of the effects that exercise has on their own heart rates and breathing rates and by learning about the human body's circulatory and respiratory systems. The activities include collecting examples of how exercise and fitness are dealt with in the mass media. Students also measure their classmates' heart rates both before and after 4 different kinds of exercises--stair-stepping, jumping rope, sit-ups, and jumping jacks. Then they record their classmates' breathing rates both before and after the same 4 exercises, and they record and then analyze what happens to their heart rates when they repeat an exercise daily for a week. In other activities, students read a research report on the state of fitness in young people, and they survey students in their school about their attitudes and knowledge regarding fitness. At the end of the unit, students communicate the results of their investigations to others.
Keeping Fit is a 3- to 4-week module divided into 8 activities, which each take between 2 and 3 class periods to complete. A narrative section at the end of the module provides brief background information for students on human systems.
Teacher's Guide
The wraparound teacher's guide includes a unit overview, a time line for completing the module, a materials list, background information, and teaching suggestions.
Key to Content Standards: 5-8 (see app. C)
UNIFYING CONCEPTS AND PROCESSES: Systems, order, and organization; change, constancy, and measurement.
SCIENCE AS INQUIRY: Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry; understandings about scientific inquiry.
LIFE SCIENCE: Structure and function in living systems.
SCIENCE IN PERSONAL AND SOCIAL PERSPECTIVES: Personal health.
Prices:
Student edition (ISBN 0-7872-1439-6), $7.90. Teacher's guide (ISBN 0-7872-1440-X), $14.90.
Publisher/supplier:
Kendall/Hunt.
Materials:
Available locally, or from commercial suppliers.
