The Gift of Life
Objectives and Goals
- We will identify some contributing factors and solutions for organ donations.
- We will determine how parents contribute to their offspring’s makeup by predicting the probability of inherited traits using simple Punnett squares.
- We will build knowledge by actively exploring real-world issues and problems, developing ideas and theories and pursuing answers and solutions (ISTE, 2016).
Essential Question(s)
- What are the benefits and risks to organ donations?
- How does one determine if two people are a match?
Lesson Format
This lesson is designed to take approximately 6 days (205 minutes) and can be completed entirely online. The format will be either completed with your instructor or on your own. For this lesson, you’ll participate in group work activities through discussion boards and independent work through video, questionnaires, an interactive game, and flyer.
This week, you will complete the following course work:
Activity 1: My Little Kidney (appx. 30 minutes)
- Initial post mm/dd/yyyy (appx. 5 minutes)
- Peer responses due mm/dd/yyyy (appx. 5 minutes)
- My Little Kidney video questionnaire (appx. 20 minutes)
Activity 2: What Do We Think About Organ Donations? (appx. 30 minutes)
- True or false mm/dd/yyyy (appx. 10 minutes)
- Driver’s liscense exploration mm/dd/yyyy (appx. 20 minutes)
Activity 3: A Closer Look at Blood Typing (appx. 47 minutes)
- A Match Made in DNA video & questions (appx. 7 minutes)
- Video questions due mm/dd/yyyy
- The Blood Connection game & questions (appx. 40 minutes)
- Game questions due mm/dd/yyyy
Activity 4: LifeShare ICAP (appx. 36 minutes)
- ICAP video (appx. 21 minutes)
- Initial post mm/dd/yyyy (appx. 10 minutes)
- Peer responses due mm/dd/yyyy (appx. 5 minutes)
Activity 5: Organ Donation Flyer (appx. 60 minutes)
Total Estimated Time: 3 hours 23 minutes
Procedure
- All of the activities are designed to be completed within Canvas.