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Please, sir, can I have a few thousand dollars for my research? The last installment in a six-part lesson has the pupils develop a grant proposal. Class members apply their knowledge of skin cancer, ultraviolet radiation, human skin, and current nanotechnology uses in medicine to develop a proposal and then present their plans for specific research using nanoparticles to combat skin cancer.
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Instructional Ideas
- Research actual National Institutes of Health research grant proposals
- Work with the English teacher to utilize the same writing process
Classroom Considerations
- Individuals need to have access to word processing software
- Depending upon the amount of writing you have students do in class, you might need to extend the amount of time it takes to complete the lesson
Pros
- The rubric allots the majority of the points to the content of the unit as opposed to style and neatness
- The resource connects the process of writing a grant proposal to engineering — great real-world scenario
Cons
- Some of the symbols do not display properly