PULSE: 10th Grade - Dawn of New Revolutions

Dawn of New Revolutions:
Revolutionizing Biology to meet Needs

Given the world’s burgeoning population and conflict over resources, how can we create an equitable, healthy and peaceful world? This is the underlying question behind the Youth Voices Forum, the major project in the Dawn of New Revolutions unit. Students grapple with ideas about how access to resources has dominated the scientific and historical landscapes of yesterday and today.

Major Project-Youth Voices
Conflict over resources and resource development is a unifying theme throughout all four courses. Revolutions in scientific and agricultural practices that affect food resources are a hotbed for debate among nations. The environmental health implications are often at the heart of this debate. Students piece together the myriad of conflicting factors that complicate the world of international decision making.

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Week - Connection	Science - Biology	World History	Language Arts	Math
Week 1 Setting the scene: Food resources, debate & conflict	Just What are you Eating?	Resources - Can't live without them!	Current Events	Country Borders and Area
	Cotton and Cabbage
	Putting on Mass: Just how do Trees grow?	What is War?	The Annotated Bibliography
	Sugar and Light	What are components of War?
Week 2 In biology students build a basic understanding of plant function. In World History & Language Arts students study conflict of resources, the wars that result and the propaganda around resources.	Without Pigments we're Nothing!	Why study War?	Propaganda	Mapping Natural Disasters
	Sugar and carbohydrates, protein, fat and water - that’s what little plants are made of!	Two World Wars
	Flower, Form and Function
Week 3 Students address interaction between insects and plants in preparation for studying pesticides while in Language Arts the interdependency of the natural world & pesticides are introduced through Silent Spring.	The Birds and the Bees, and the Flowers and the Trees	Two World Wars	Silent Spring	Just How Many is a "Million Dead"?
	Design a Pollinator
Week 4 Language Arts ties World History & Biology together as students debate issues of agricultural technology. While the Mathematics extension lesson expands on the Silent Spring lesson & the study of plant animal interaction & pesticides in Biology.	When Is a Pest an Insect?	The Reality of War	Debates	Biomagnification
	Acute Toxicity: LD50 by the Numbers
	Just Spray ‘Em!?	What are Your Human Rights? : Post World War II and Human Rights
	Aphids and Ladybirds
Week 5 Students explore the basis for the UN in world history while developing their formal writing skills in Language Arts during resolution writing. They further develop their understanding of genetics and get further background for their country portfolios in mathematics	Return to Cotton and Cabbage	Unity and the United Nations	Writing Resolutions	Population Pyramids
	What is DNA? DNA Extraction from Kiwifruit
	DNA, Genes and Chromosomes	WAR child Canada's : GENOCIDE
	DNA Replication
Week 6 Students develop materials for their portfolio in mathematics, language arts while applying their UN background in world history and genetic background in biology.	How Things Go Wrong	How Can You be a Revolutionary?	Country Display	What Do You Want to Know? - Country Statistics
	Protein Synthesis and Words	Locating the Cold War
	Karyotype Puzzle
	Chocolate Flavored Cherries
	Designer Genes	Warring Philosophies: The Cold War
Week 7 The final week of preparation before the forum, students cement ideas to be presented in the forum.	GMFs : Golden Rice or Frankenfood?	The Cold War in Popular Music
		Reviewing Resource Conflict

Week 8 Forum	Exploring issues & writing resolutions
	Youth Voices

PULSE is a project of the Community Outreach and Education Program of the Southwest Environmental Health Sciences Center and is funded by:

an NIH/NCRR award #16260-01A1

The Community Outreach and Education Program is part of the Southwest Environmental Health Sciences Center: an NIEHS Award

Supported by NIEHS grant # ES06694

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