Nicole Lopez

Unit Title: Genetic Engineering and the Implications of Altering Essence

Unit Objectives: Students will have an understanding of the benefits and consequences
of the human drive to manipulate the environment, other organisms, and even themselves
to fulfill their needs to improve their lives. Students will be able to explain the benefits
and consequences of these alterations using examples taken from art, literature, television
and movies, scientific magazines and experiments, as well as examples from their own
lives.

Apps Chosen: The apps that were chosen for this unit have a direct correlation to the
objectives of this lesson. The science apps, such as Gene Screen, help the students
visually learn the concepts related to genetic manipulation and genetic engineering. The
app FaceFusion is a great app the will help blend the reality of genetics with the science
of it. Evernote and Blog Docs allows for the students to express themselves and their
ideas as whole group. Developing and filming interviews, using iMovie, in a whole class
setting allows the students to express themselves. They are also given the opportunity to
create something as a group and immediately analyze it by watching their product. When
trying to understand genetic engineering and genetic manipulation, it is important for the
students to have a content delivery format that has visuals. It is also important to have
apps that enhance class discussions and activities in order to enhance the in depth
understanding of genetic manipulation.

ACE category
Assessment Gene Screen (Review), Dropbox

Content Delivery
FaceFusion, Gene Screen, Netflix

Expression-
BlogDocs, Evernote, Numbers, Google Docs, iMovie

I will be using the apps and technology to present the material as content delivery. I will
also use the apps and technology as a way of bringing the activities the class does in
small group or individually into the whole class by showing summaries and combining
thoughts into one full class summary. It allows for whole group discussion. Also, the
apps are used in a way to provide visuals, collaboration, and communication for the
students and between the students.

Advantages
The advantages allow for students to see more visuals. To see information turned into
data and graphs using apps such as Numbers. It allows for immediate feedback from
students. It also allows for students to compare their answers to others and agree or
disagree with each other depending on the topic. Students become more engaged when
they are able to do work, develop projects, and present them to the class immediately.

Possible Problems
It is difficult to have projects in a lesson that require a certain app and only one person
can gain access to that app because there is only one iPad. Having only one iPad seems
to limit what the students can do. You are limited to instruction and expression to the
whole class. To counter this you can have the students be able to use the iPad to create
group projects and take the iPad to film video, use it individually or in small groups to
look at a video, PowerPoint or notes for preteaching and reteaching.



Day 1
iPad Application - BlogDocs
Apple TV
Overhead Projector
Students will evaluate who they are in the
world and their individual worth, discuss it
with a partner and write a blog together on
how it is to be a teenager and what qualities
are desirable and undesirable. The class
will put together a blog on BlogDocs as a
whole class that summarizes the blogs
written by the partners.
Day 2
iPad App Gene Screen, FaceFusion
Apple TV
Overhead Projector
Teacher will display the app Gene Screen
on the overhead projector. The teacher will
go through the different pages of the app
and teach the class about genetics. The app
will also describe the Punnett Square and
the applicable variety produced in a
Punnett Square.

As a whole class, the teacher will pick 2
students to take pictures of and use the
application FaceFusion. The students will
produce a Punnett Square for each of the
students. They will create a Punnett
Square for hair color and eye color.
FaceFusion will bring together the two
people. The final product will be
displayed in front of the class on the
overhead. The students will use the 2
different Punnett Squares and put them
together to make the offspring.
Day 3
Application Keynote, Evernote
Apple TV
Overhead Projector
Teacher will use Keynote to show a slide
show explaining what genetic engineering
is. After the explanation, students will
work in groups of 3-4 and construct a list
of different plant and animal species that
have been genetically engineered to
accommodate for our world, specifically in
the production of food. After the students
compile a list in their groups, the whole
class will share their lists and a whole class
list will be compiled using the app
Evernote on the overhead projector.
Day 4-6
Application Netflix, BlogDocs
Movie Gattaca
Computer connected to projector or
Apple TV
Overhead projector

After watching the movie Gattaca,
students will pretend they are a movie critic
and write a blog summarizing and writing
a critique of the movie. As a whole class,
students will write a blog together so they
can view the structure and format of how
the blog is supposed to look and what
content is supposed to be in the blog, using
BlogDocs.

Students will categorize the survival
techniques used by the characters in the
movie Gattaca. The whole class will
display their findings on the app Numbers
using the Apple TV and overhead
projector.
Day 7-10
Application/software Google Docs
iPad
Apple TV
Overhead Projector
Students will work in groups of 3-4 and
develop survey questions for an interview
that asks people why there is a human drive
to manipulate the environment. They will
present their questions to the class and the
teacher the class will decide on 5 questions
to use in an interview situation asking
people about the human drive to
manipulate the environment.

Five students will be chosen from the class
to form a video production team, a
producer, camera operator, interviewer,
director and editor, who will go around the
school with the iPad and use iMovie to
interview people with the questions the
class formed. The production team will
edit the movie and present it to the class
using an Apple TV and overhead projector.
Day 11
Application GeneScreen
Dropbox
iPad
Apple TV

Assessment of material. Review using
GeneScreen. After the review of material,
the students will answer short answer
questions regarding the material covered.
They will go onto a computer and submit
their assessment into Dropbox. The
teacher can use the iPad to correct the
material.