Goals
- Justify the Bulgarian medics innocence using knowledge on viral behavior and evolutionary concepts
Objectives
- Predict the modes of viral infections or disease transmission by its structure
- Identify the defining features (structure and spread) of HIV
- Explain how mutations are not all deleterious or beneficial
- Research information on the Benghazi HIV trial
- Students will work in group of 4 to create a documentary as their final artifact
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS)
- Biology
- 7A- analyze and evaluate how evidence of common ancestry among groups is provided by the fossil record, biogeography, and homologies, including anatomical, molecular, and developmental
- 7C- analyze and evaluate how natural selection produces change in populations, not individuals
- 7E- analyze and evaluate the relationship of natural selection to adaptation and to the development of diversity in and among species
- 7F- analyze and evaluate the effects of other evolutionary mechanisms, including genetic drift, gene flow, mutation, and recombination
- 8B- categorize organisms using a hierarchical classification system based on similarities and differences shared among groups
- 4C- compare the structures of viruses to cells, describe viral reproduction, and describe the role of viruses in causing diseases such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and influenza
- English Language Arts
- 15A- write an analytical essay of sufficient length that includes:
- Effective introductory and concluding paragraphs and a variety of sentence structures;
- Rhetorical devices, and transitions between paragraphs;
- A controlling idea or thesis;
- An organizing structure appropriate to purpose, audience, and context; and
- Relevant information and valid inferences;
- 16E- an analysis of the relative value of specific data, facts, and ideas
- Social Studies (World Geography)
- 7D- examine benefits and challenges of globalization, including connectivity, standard of living, pandemics, and loss of local culture
- Digital Video and Audio Design
- 6B- analyze script and storyboard development processes for a successful production;
- 6C- identify and participate in the team roles required for completion of a production;
- 6D- identify equipment, crew, and cast requirements for a scripted production; and
- 9D- apply knowledge of audio and video script production;
- 9G- demonstrate various videography techniques, including picture composition, video composition, audio composition, editing, and delivery;
- 9K- format digital information for effective communication for a defined audience with the use of appropriate camera perspectives, color techniques, and content selection.
Evolutionary Misconceptions
- Evolution implies that a species only get better over time
- All mutations are bad
- Natural Selection only benefits species
- Individuals can evolve during their lifespan