Chelsea Jones

Biotechnology 1,2
Grades 10-12

Unit:CentralDogmaofMolecularBiology
Lesson:CentralDogmaIntroduction
Background:Firstdayofunit.ThisisanintroductiontoproteinsandbasicsofDNARNAProteins.
Materials:Whiteboardslates,dryerasemarkers,paper,markersorcrayons,Sharpie,Elmoprojector,Clearly
Statedvideohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwibgNGe4aY

Standards:
StandardSource
NGSS

AbbreviatedStandard
LS1.A:Structureand
Function

AZStateStandards

Strand4Concept2PO2

CommonCoreStandards

WHST.1112.2

StandardExplanations
Allcellscontaingeneticinformationintheform
ofDNAmolecules.Genesareregionsinthe
DNAthatcodefortheformationofproteins,
whichcarryoutmostoftheworkofthecells.
Describethemolecularbasisofheredity,in
virusesandlivingthings,includingDNA
replicationandproteinsynthesis.
Writeinformative/explanatorytexts,includingthe
narrationofscientificprocedures/experiments.

ContentObjective:
StudentswillbeabletocorrectlydrawabasicmodelofthesequenceDNARNAProteins.
Studentswillbeabletoidentifyanexampleofaproteinandhowitdeterminesanorganismsformorfunction.

LanguageObjective:

Studentswillbeabletoexplainthebasicprocessofcentraldogmaverbally.

Chelsea Jones
Biotechnology 1,2
Grades 10-12

TaskAnalysis:
Time
5min

10min

10min

15min

SubObjective(SWBAT)

TeachingStrategy

Checkfor
Understanding
Listfrompriorknowledgewhat Bellwork:Tellmeeverythingyou
Eachstudentwillwrite
theyknowaboutproteins.
knowaboutproteins.Ex.Wheredo
theiranswersonaslate
theycomefrom,whataretheymade andthensharewiththeir
of,whatdotheydo?Thisisawrite
partner.Studentswill
pairshareactivity.
thenbecalledrandomly
tosharetheiranswers,
whichwillbewrittenon
thewhiteboardtocreatea
list.
Giveanexampleofhowproteins Explore:Inpartners,studentsare
STELLAPractice:
areessentialtoanorganisms
askedtoexploreawebsiteabout
Contextualization
formorfunction.
proteinsandaregivenaguiding
Afterexploringthe
questionthattheyaretoanswerusing website,studentswillbe
thewebsite.Afterward,teacherwill
randomlycalledonto
givespecificexample(MC1R)for
sharetheirexamplefound
studentstounderstand.
onthewebsite.Seean
exampleusingdogcoat
colors,somethingthat
theyareallfamiliarwith.
Modeladefensibleideaofhow Modeling:Teacherintroducesthetitle STELLApractice:
DNAgivesrisetoproteins.
CentralDogmaandhintsthatDNA
ScientificSense
determinesproteins.Teacherthen
making/Scientific
askspartnerstocreateamodelofhow Discourse
DNAgetstoproteins.
Studentswillsharetheir
modelsanddefendtheir
ideastotheclass.
Revisetheirmodelstoshowthe Video:Teachershows5minvideoon STELLApractice:
correctprocessof
howDNAcreatesproteinsandthen
ScientificSense
asksstudentstotweaktheirmodelsto making/Scientific
DNARNAProteinsafter
watchingabriefvideo.
showthecorrectprocess.
Discourse
Eachpairofstudentswill
presenttheirmodelsagain
afterthevideoandtellthe
classhowtheymodified
theirmodelandshowthe
correctprocessof

Chelsea Jones
Biotechnology 1,2
Grades 10-12
DNARNAProtein.