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How can biological methods be effectively used to convert biomass to biofuel to meet our energy needs?
Materials and Resources
What specific materials and resources (books, print materials, videos, websites) will you make available to support potential student investigations?
What other special supplies, materials, or resources will you use (e.g., books, print materials, videos, websites)?
Books:
People to contact:
Phone: 608-843-0126
Email: [email protected]
Videos:
Videos will be used as entry event. Please use the following link to access: http://prezi.com/lhumbgtg9umx/edit/?auth_key=mijrdwn&follow=p1orhthsa_wz
Websites: Used for Labs (All lab documents are found at the bottom of the document in various formats)
Supplies for Individual Laboratories:
Laboratory Materials
Toothpick Breakdown Enzyme Simulation-(Open Toothpickase lab at bottom of document for more information)
-Toothpicks (an entire box for each student group)
-Stopwatch
-Graph Paper
Exploring Enzymes Experimental Investigations (Some of these items will be used in multiple labs) (Open enzyme activity lab at bottom of page for additional information.)
-Glucose Monitors
-Glucose Test strips
-Cellulase Enzymes
-Cellulose Source
-Potatoes
-Hydrogen Peroxide
-Beano
-Vernier Gas Pressure Sensors
-Vernier Labquest Probes
-Test Tubes
-test tube racks
-pH Buffers
-Hot water bath
-Ice
-Refrigerator
-Microwave
-Blender
-Thermometers
Quantitative Analysis of Experimental Mushroom ExtractsBio Rad:
Biofuel Enzyme Kit - 166-5035EDU
Lactase Lab-Lactase Tablet: (These can be bought in any drugstore or grocery store.) (More information under Latase Enzyme lab at bottom of page)
-15 ml of Milk: Any milk will work.
-Water: Used for dissolving the lactase tablet, dissolving the sucrose and boiling the lactase.
-Sucrose: 5 grams per group.
-100 ml Graduated Cylinder/10 ml Graduated Cylinder: Measuring water and enzyme amounts.
-3 - 400 ml Beakers: Used for dissolving the lactase tablet, dissolving the sucrose and boiling the lactase.
-Marking Pencil: Mark the test tubes so that confusion does not occur.
-Hot Plate with a Pyrex Test Tube: For denaturing the enzyme.
-Stirring Rod: Helps to mix up the lactase tablet in the water.
Enzyme Lab: Chicken Liver
-Chicken Liver
-3 -100mL beakers
-10mL graduated cylinder
-Ice
-15 test tubes
-Triple Beam Balance
-Petri Dish
-Scalpel
-RulerEnzyme Activity Lab (various biological conditions)-colorimeter test tubes
-Spec 20 colorimeter
-diluted turnip extract (1mL of extract per 200 mL of water)
-guaiacol (Sigma-Aldrich)
-micropipette
What kinds of outside experts will you involve in the unit? Who are some specific people you might contact? Where in the unit will you include them?
Outside Experts: When each individual group is ready to discuss with an expert. Potentially it will be the second week of the project. Alternatively, expert knowledge may also be useful toward the end of the first week when students are researching biomass to biofuels chemical reactions. The expert may be useful in explaining and answering questions about the nature of the reactions students are researching. Students could ask the expert to clarify any misunderstandings about the content they are struggling with.
Orleans, Indiana 47452
(812) 865-3232
Where can students find labs that test the role of an enzyme:
What technology will be available for student use?
All technology presented below can be used in a variety of ways. Many of these tools will be introduced either within the unit or students' will have had previous experience with.
How will you help students identify and use appropriate resources and tools to gather, analyze, and present information from these investigations?
The teacher may show how to use some of the technological tools. The teacher could show an example of a gloster or prezi that they have made in the past.
PROCEDURES: Students will use the internet to research procedures for their lab questions after they have come up with the question they wish to investigate and worked on a procedure as a group. Writing lab procedures is something we work on all year so students have already worked on this aspect. With the right type of questions from the teacher students should be able to write at least part if not all of their procedure in their groups. If not we can point them to an internet search of labs that have been written testing the variable they have chosen. This should help them with their procedures.
TOOLS: We will have practiced many of the data collecting tools throughout the course of the year to this date. Any the students who are not familiar with any particular lab tools will be addressed on a one on one basis or we will allow the students to look up videos and instructions on the internet.
PRESENTATIONS: Student groups will be expected to turn in written lab reports. Before they are turned in they will share their information through what we call a BoardRoom Discussion. Students will use whiteboards to record the essential parts and data from their lab and will then share them with their classmates during the discussion time. Classmates will have an opportunity to question each of the other groups.
Guiding Questions for Lab Activities:
Materials and Resources
What specific materials and resources (books, print materials, videos, websites) will you make available to support potential student investigations?
What other special supplies, materials, or resources will you use (e.g., books, print materials, videos, websites)?
Books:
- Miller/Levine. “Biology”. Pearson-Prentice Hall, 2010.
- “Biofuel Research Boosted by Discovery of How Cyanobacteria Make Energy” (December 15, 2011). http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111215141613.htm.
- Mack, Sean. “Enzymes and Algae May Spur a Biofuel Boom: Ian Gilson.” The Energy Report, June 12, 2012. http://www.theenergyreport.com/pub/na/13602.
- “Nebraska Biofuel Enzyme Plant Hosts Tour with Senior DOE Official.” Energy.gov, February 10, 2012. http://www.nrel.gov/biomass/pdfs/39436.pdf.
- Silvertein, Ken. “Will Algae Biofuels Hit the Highway.” The Energy Report, May 22, 2012. http://www.theenergyreport.com/pub/na/13432.
- Sulaiman Al-Zuhair,(1) K. B. Ramachandran,(2) Mohamed Farid,(3) Mohamed Kheireddine Aroua,(4) Praveen Vadlani,5 Subramanian Ramakrishnan,(6) and Lucia Gardossi(7). “Enzymes in Biofuels Production” Volume 2011, no. Article ID 658263 (2011). http://www.hindawi.com/journals/er/2011/658263/.
People to contact:
- Great Lakes Bioenergy http://www.glbrc.org/about/ourleadership
- Purdue Discovery Park
- Dr. Clint Chappell http://www.gradschool.purdue.edu/PULSe/faculty.cfm?fid=165&range=0
- Wisconsin: Kenneth A. Walz, Ph.D.
Phone: 608-843-0126
Email: [email protected]
Videos:
- National Geographic Channel: Aftermath World Without Oil (Part 1); http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVzG98zHQRc
- National Geographic Channel: Aftermath World Without Oil (Part 2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVvacFmgoB4&feature=related
- National Geographic Channel: Aftermath World Without Oil (Part 3)
Videos will be used as entry event. Please use the following link to access: http://prezi.com/lhumbgtg9umx/edit/?auth_key=mijrdwn&follow=p1orhthsa_wz
Websites: Used for Labs (All lab documents are found at the bottom of the document in various formats)
- Brown, Judy. “Beano Lab”, n.d. http://www.accessexcellence.org/AE/ATG/data/released/0167-JudyBrown/description.php
- “Enzyme Activity Lab”. Oracle Think Quest, n.d. http://library.thinkquest.org/27819/enzyme_activity_lab.html.
- “Enzyme Lab”, n.d. www.schenectady.k12.ny.us/.../Enzyme%20Activity%20Lab.pdf.
- Wartski, Bert. “Lactase Enzyme Lab”, n.d. http://www.learnnc.org/lp/pages/3398.
Supplies for Individual Laboratories:
Laboratory Materials
Toothpick Breakdown Enzyme Simulation-(Open Toothpickase lab at bottom of document for more information)
-Toothpicks (an entire box for each student group)
-Stopwatch
-Graph Paper
Exploring Enzymes Experimental Investigations (Some of these items will be used in multiple labs) (Open enzyme activity lab at bottom of page for additional information.)
-Glucose Monitors
-Glucose Test strips
-Cellulase Enzymes
-Cellulose Source
-Potatoes
-Hydrogen Peroxide
-Beano
-Vernier Gas Pressure Sensors
-Vernier Labquest Probes
-Test Tubes
-test tube racks
-pH Buffers
-Hot water bath
-Ice
-Refrigerator
-Microwave
-Blender
-Thermometers
Quantitative Analysis of Experimental Mushroom ExtractsBio Rad:
Biofuel Enzyme Kit - 166-5035EDU
Lactase Lab-Lactase Tablet: (These can be bought in any drugstore or grocery store.) (More information under Latase Enzyme lab at bottom of page)
-15 ml of Milk: Any milk will work.
-Water: Used for dissolving the lactase tablet, dissolving the sucrose and boiling the lactase.
-Sucrose: 5 grams per group.
-100 ml Graduated Cylinder/10 ml Graduated Cylinder: Measuring water and enzyme amounts.
-3 - 400 ml Beakers: Used for dissolving the lactase tablet, dissolving the sucrose and boiling the lactase.
-Marking Pencil: Mark the test tubes so that confusion does not occur.
-Hot Plate with a Pyrex Test Tube: For denaturing the enzyme.
-Stirring Rod: Helps to mix up the lactase tablet in the water.
Enzyme Lab: Chicken Liver
-Chicken Liver
-3 -100mL beakers
-10mL graduated cylinder
-Ice
-15 test tubes
-Triple Beam Balance
-Petri Dish
-Scalpel
-RulerEnzyme Activity Lab (various biological conditions)-colorimeter test tubes
-Spec 20 colorimeter
-diluted turnip extract (1mL of extract per 200 mL of water)
-guaiacol (Sigma-Aldrich)
-micropipette
What kinds of outside experts will you involve in the unit? Who are some specific people you might contact? Where in the unit will you include them?
Outside Experts: When each individual group is ready to discuss with an expert. Potentially it will be the second week of the project. Alternatively, expert knowledge may also be useful toward the end of the first week when students are researching biomass to biofuels chemical reactions. The expert may be useful in explaining and answering questions about the nature of the reactions students are researching. Students could ask the expert to clarify any misunderstandings about the content they are struggling with.
- Great Lakes Bioenergy http://www.glbrc.org/about/ourleadership
- Purdue Discovery Park
- Biodigesters
- Reynolds, In
Orleans, Indiana 47452
(812) 865-3232
- Fremont Community Biodigester-Fremont, Indiana
- Wisconsin: Kenneth A. Walz, Ph.D.
- Chemistry and Engineering Instructor
- Phone: 608-843-0126
- Email: [email protected]
- NREL http://www.nrel.gov/biomass/news/2010/896.html
Where can students find labs that test the role of an enzyme:
- www.learnnc.org/lp/pages/3398
- glencoe.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0078759864/.../virtual_labs.html
- www.phschool.com/science/biology_place/labbench/lab2/intro.html (virtual lab)
- www2.vernier.com/sample_labs/BWCALC-06A-enzyme_action.pdf
- www.schenectady.k12.ny.us/.../russellenzymelab/
- www.uta.edu/biology/1441_lab/Notes_Enzymes.pdf
- mdk12.org/.../enzyme_activity/teachers_guide_engagement2.html
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCJpxCgS2DE
- library.thinkquest.org/27819/LabPack.pdf
- www.hwscience.com/.../Labs/U1-L-Enzyme%20Activity%2011-12.p...
What technology will be available for student use?
All technology presented below can be used in a variety of ways. Many of these tools will be introduced either within the unit or students' will have had previous experience with.
- Computers with Internet connections and printers
- Cell phones (belonging to the students)
- Cameras (still, document, video)
- Google Docs
- Glogster
- Prezi
- Wikispaces, Weebly, Google Sites
- Aggregators
- Diigo
- Prism/Moodle/Angel
- Easybib
How will you help students identify and use appropriate resources and tools to gather, analyze, and present information from these investigations?
The teacher may show how to use some of the technological tools. The teacher could show an example of a gloster or prezi that they have made in the past.
PROCEDURES: Students will use the internet to research procedures for their lab questions after they have come up with the question they wish to investigate and worked on a procedure as a group. Writing lab procedures is something we work on all year so students have already worked on this aspect. With the right type of questions from the teacher students should be able to write at least part if not all of their procedure in their groups. If not we can point them to an internet search of labs that have been written testing the variable they have chosen. This should help them with their procedures.
TOOLS: We will have practiced many of the data collecting tools throughout the course of the year to this date. Any the students who are not familiar with any particular lab tools will be addressed on a one on one basis or we will allow the students to look up videos and instructions on the internet.
PRESENTATIONS: Student groups will be expected to turn in written lab reports. Before they are turned in they will share their information through what we call a BoardRoom Discussion. Students will use whiteboards to record the essential parts and data from their lab and will then share them with their classmates during the discussion time. Classmates will have an opportunity to question each of the other groups.
Guiding Questions for Lab Activities:
- Brown, Judy. “Beano Lab”, n.d. http://www.accessexcellence.org/AE/ATG/data/released/0167-JudyBrown/description.php.
- “Enzyme Activity Lab”. Oracle Think Quest, n.d. http://library.thinkquest.org/27819/enzyme_activity_lab.html.
- “Enzyme Lab”, n.d. http://www.schenectady.k12.ny.us/techresources/EETT/russellenzymelab/Enzyme%20Activity%20Lab.pdf.
- Wartski, Bert. “Lactase Enzyme Lab”, n.d. http://www.learnnc.org/lp/pages/3398.
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