Biotechnology

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• Biotechnology
• An overview
• Background knowledge and skills
• technologies and techniques
• principles
• social and environmental considerations
• ideas for classroom practice

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What is Biotechnology? List everything you
associate with biotechnology. Categorise them
under the following headings.

• Applications of Biotechnology
• Industrial processes
• Human and veterinary health
• Agriculture/horticulture
• The food industry
• The environment

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What is Biotechnology?
Look it up
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• Technologies and Techniques
• Focus on those which can be safely used in
  schools
• Plant propagation
• Soil improvement
• Cultures that produce food
• Changing the natural environment
• Caring for small animals

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Principles General Fitness for purpose Safety Aest
hetics
Specific Requirements for growth eg warmth,
food, sunlight etc Bulking up
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• Social and Environmental Considerations
• Which ones of these are relevant for children?
• Attitudes towards caring for living things
• Keeping the environment aesthetically pleasing
  and healthy.
• How we deal with organic waste.
• Sustainability

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• Classroom Ideas
• Biotechnology situations relating to-
• Growing plants for a purpose
• Modifying the soil eg composting,
• worm farming
• Dealing with living foods yoghurt, cheeses,
  yeast
• What principles, technologies, techniques and
  societal factors do you kneed to know about and
  consider?