Outreach

TEAM Tox Outreach

Outreach is a combination of our efforts to facilitate K-12 educators, introduce kids and teenagers to science and encourage all to pursue higher education.

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Radish Seed Dose-Response

Students test the toxicity of different household substances by observing their impacts on radish seed germination over the course of 3 days. We have developed resources and kits for running this experiment in classrooms with elementary school (4th grade +), middle school, and high school students. These resources include grade level-specific lesson plans, worksheets, YouTube videos, and on online web tool for plotting dose-response curves. Electronic copies of these resources can be found below.

TEAM Tox YouTube Channel:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfhNM79wgTaNTnCqd2rNZdw

Dose-Response Web Tool (HS):  https://ianlmoran.shinyapps.io/GerminationDRCApp/

Elementary School Resources (click to download):

Lesson plan

Worksheet

Middle School Resources (click to download):

Lesson plan

Worksheet

High School Resources (click to download):

Lesson plan

Worksheet

Chemical Conundrum

This module explores what chemicals are, what the difference between mass and weight are and how they can be used to study chemicals. Plus candy is involved!

Click here to download module instructions.

Strawberry DNA Module

This module uses strawberries to study DNA and by the end you'll be walking away with your own collection of stringy DNA!

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