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Overview

For iGEM 2024, our team has developed teaching and lessons plans for learners of different ages. The aim is for these lesson plans to be easily replicable for educators. These ready-made materials are meant to be adopted for students ranging from age 9 to 14. We hope to prove that science education is simpler than it looks. And as a high school team, who better than us to take on this challenge?

Our school has introduced a school-based biotechnology curriculum for Year 7 – 9 students since 2004. Many of our members see this as a spark that led to us joining iGEM this year. As such, we wish to give back, in hopes that other learners could benefit from a similar curriculum as well.

The curriculum is differentiated for Year 7, 8 & 9. Each Year will receive no less than 3 lessons, each lasting 60 minutes, covering the basics of scientific investigation, Biology and more. Beside PowerPoint Slides for lectures, we have also designed printable handouts and worksheets. Beyond that, our curriculum also follows the Learning-Teaching-Assessment Cycle. First lesson is for input of new knowledge and more basic concepts. Another lesson conducted in the consecutive week would invite learners combine their own preexisting knowledge while incorporating real-life examples to better illustrate more complex ideas. The last lesson would be for explaining actual hands-on laboratory procedures while also allowing learners to showcase posters that they have designed based on a given lesson-related topic.

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