Learning Outcomes and Standards

Learning Outcomes

• Students will be introduced to the responsibilities and duties they would face in the “real world”
  • Time management
  • Teamwork
  • Cooperation
  • Computer Skills
• Students will gain laboratory and analytical skills
  • Performing an experiment according to directions (in a simulated Batch Record Format)
  • Using beakers, graduated cylinders and pipettes to measure liquids
  • Using scales and weigh boats to measure materials
  • Using sterile techniques when handling media
  • Observing cells under the microscope
  • Identifying an appropriate control
  • Gathering data and constructing tables
• Specific biotechnology concepts
  • Fermentation
  • Factors affecting cell growth (nutrients, temperature)
  • Use of microbes in biomanufacturing
• Careers in Biomanufacturing
• Process Scientist
• Process Engineer
• Process Technician

State Curriculum Standards

North Carolina Standard Course of Study (NCSCOS):

Competencies and Objectives from Exploring Biotechnology

• EB 3.01 Analyze the use of equipment and materials and apply rules for safety in the laboratory.
• EB07.01 Discuss industrial and environmental biotechnology.
• EB07.02 Analyze components of industrial biotechnology.
• EB10.01 Describe careers in Biotechnology
• EB10.02 Discuss bioinformatics and biomanufacturing careers.

Competencies and Objectives from 8th Grade Science

• 1.04 Analyze variables in scientific investigations
• 1.05 Analyze evidence to: Explain observations. Make inferences and predictions. Develop the relationship between evidence and explanation.
• 1.06 Use mathematics to gather, organize, and present quantitative data resulting from scientific investigations: Measurement, Analysis of data, Graphing
• 7.01 Compare and contrast microbes: Size, shape, structure. Whether they are living cells.
• 7.05 Investigate aspects of biotechnology (including careers, economic benefits to NC)