Bell Work: 8/28/14

• Watch the video “Maasai Marathon”. Write a summary of what the Maasai Warriors are doing for their village. How is their story similar to your 2 weeks of sacrifice?

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Standards

• Distinguish between the intended benefits and the unintended consequences of a new technology.

• Differentiate between adaptive and assistive bioengineered products (e.g., food, biofuels, medicines, integrated pest management).

Essential Questions to ponder…

• What societal needs have led to the creation of certain technologies?

• What are the intended benefits and unintended consequences of new technologies?

• Are we able to describe, explain & develop adaptive & assistive bioengineered products?

• Write down the different outcomes of your testing.

• What happened?

• What did your team do as a result of the outcome?

• After testing, improve your design.

• Make note of the improvements your group made?

• What happened when you re-tested? Did you have to improve again? If so, how did you improve?

Begin your persuasive essay…1. Your argumentative essay must show evidence as to why people in

a certain area of the world need your invention and evidence that your invention will work. EACH PERSON ON YOUR TEAM IS RESPONSIBLE FOR A SPECIFIC SECTION OF THE ESSAY!

2. Base your paper on scientific research--use the research that you retrieved from my portaportal, articles, and the notes from your STEM notebook that you took when testing your prototype.

3. Claim:– There are groups of people in the world suffering from clean water

depletion. This invention would make clean water available for those areas of the world that are lacking.

4. Tips for writing a persuasive essay:a) Make your claimb) Support your claim with evidence from websites, articles, or

videosc) An organized essay is a better essay- introduction, body,

conclusion

Use a Post-It Note to Use a Post-It Note to “tweet” about the “tweet” about the following question: following question:

What improvements have you made or will make to your water

filtration system?

Tweet a response…