High School Engineering
Toxicology and Dose Response
How much is too much? Brine shrimp can tell you.
Students expose brine shrimp to a range of doses and count survivors. They build a dose response curve from their own data.
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NGSS HS-ETS1-3
Standard: Evaluate a solution to a complex real-world problem based on prioritized criteria and trade-offs that account for a range of constraints, including cost, safety, reliability, and aesthetics, as well as possible social, cultural, and environmental impacts.
What the kit does: Students use their toxicity results to weigh trade-offs in a real pollution decision.
NGSS HS-LS2-6
Standard: Evaluate the claims, evidence, and reasoning that the complex interactions in ecosystems maintain relatively consistent numbers and types of organisms in stable conditions, but changing conditions may result in a new ecosystem.
What the kit does: Students see how a toxin changes a stable population.
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