<p>Since May 2022, our team, SUSTech_Shenzhen 2022, has experienced online questionnaire registration and offline interview assessment, and finally successfully obtained the qualification to participate in this project. Then, in June and July, we designed a unique curriculum for the Grade 4 and Grade 6 children, showing them the wonderful world and providing them with a wealth of knowledge. Each class only has half an hour. So, how to fully mobilize children's interest and provide appropriate knowledge density in the limited time has become the first problem in our curriculum design process.</p><br>
<P>For the Grade 4 children, our class mainly adopted the design from the interesting knowledge of color, clothing manufacturing process and so on. On the basis of fully arousing students' interest, we added a lot of short stories about color. For example, why purple was particularly expensive in the ancient East and West, and what happened to its price before it dropped between them. Then, through some interesting video uploaded to Bilibili (Chinese YouTube), we played some color discrimination games. From a row of similar colors, you need to choose the most different color.</P><br>
<P>For the Grade 6 children, we focused more on the expansion of vision and the introduction of knowledge. We contacted traditional Chinese culture, especially the Book of Songs (the first anthology of verse in China, collecting poems from the 11th century BC to the 6th century BC), to introduce how clothes were dyed in ancient China. Then, based on the comparison of modern industrial dyeing methods, we proposed a synthetic biology method to synthesize dyes. Through the discussion with students, we have reached an agreement that the production of dyes by synthetic biology and the natural extraction of dyes from living organisms such as plants in nature are more environmentally friendly than chemical synthetic dyes. Finally, we return to other applications of synthetic biology in life, such as space, food, fuel, and so on, while stimulating children's interest in biology.</P><br>
<P>For the Grade 6 children, we focused more on the expansion of vision and the introduction of knowledge. We contacted traditional Chinese culture, especially the Book of Songs (the first anthology of verse in China, collecting poems from the 11th century BC to the 6th century BC), to introduce how clothes were dyed in ancient China. Then, based on the comparison of modern industrial dyeing methods, we proposed a synthetic biology method to synthesize dyes. Through the discussion with students, we have reached an agreement that the production of dyes by synthetic biology and the natural extraction of dyes from living organisms such as plants in nature are more environmentally friendly than chemical synthetic dyes. Finally, we return to other applications of synthetic biology in life, such as space, food, fuel, and so on, while stimulating children's interest in biology.</P>
<h6><a>Feedback:</a></h6>
<P>Through the organizer, our team collected the feedback of the children who attended the class and the management teachers who together attended the class with them, and received unanimous praise.
