1. 2Objectives: 3 3Courses 4 4Division of Lessons and their Timing



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7.3IB revision Timetable




7.4iGCSE Revision Timetable




7.5Enrichment Policies

7.6Chemistry Department Policies on International Mindedness, ToK and IB Learner Profile



Field Trips

To help advance international mindedness we are having a field trip with the IB students in term 2 to a UNESCO World Heritage site as part of their Internal Assessment to collect data on the environment.



Biochemistry and Medicine Society and Club

Both of these endeavours are geared at encouraging international mindedness and copperation, for instance with the contribution made by members through the Somosomo project where our students taught basic scientific



International competitions

Cambridge Chemistry Challenge

Also, students are encouraged to apply to the Cambridge Chemistry Challenge online:

http://c3l6.org/posts

This is an international competition aimed at high school students and tests their ability to reason and apply logic to solve puzzles like this one:



Students are asked to complete several of these and there is a leader board, with the most successful students receiving official recognition.



Bill Bryson Prize
The Bill Bryson Prize is designed to recognise and encourage excellent science communication in schools and colleges by encouraging students to think creatively about science. The competition is open to students aged 5-18 with entries accepted in any format as long as they accurately communicate science.

Recent entries have included videos, podcasts, posters, even cartoons, songs and poems.



7.7Promoting ToK in lessons



In addition to embedding ToK opportunities within the schemes of work, students are encouraged within lessons to identify links with the work they are studying to ToK within lessons by being awarded merits for connections which are regarded as well thought out.

7.8Promoting the IB Learner Profile

In addition to embedding IB Learner Profile opportunities within the schemes of work, students are encouraged within lessons to identify links with the work they are studying to IB Learner Profile within lessons by being awarded merits for connections which are regarded as well thought out.



7.9Medicine and Biochemistry Society

A new society run jointly with the Biology department has been set up and will be launched initially for the IB students on the lunchtime of Tuesday 21st of May with an introduction to PCR from PB. The intention of the society is to encourage interest in topics relating to medicine and biochemistry that are not specifically covered by either syllabus and to share the research experience within the faculty with the students. In addition, this will allow students an opportunity to experience basic research projects like DNA extraction, PCR and electrophoresis which they would be able to access in lab internships in university settings if they were in a city like London or Seoul. This will allow them to be better informed about their university choices which will be of particular value to students interested in applying for extremely competitive courses like Medicine and also for Oxbridge and Ivy League applicants.



7.9.1Molecular Biology Plan for the Medicine and Biochemistry Society


PCR

  1. PCR a gene fragment using DNeasy PCR beads (premade dehydrated Taq + Buffers + dNTPs) from peanut DNA and then visualise it using agarose gel electrophoresis

  2. Select a gene from an organism that has easily obtainable genomic DNA, create and order the necessary primers. Then extract DNA and then PCR but using a PCR reaction mix made from scratch by ourselves.

Gene cloning, cell culture and protein purification

  1. Buy a transformation kit from Bio Rad (pGLO™ Bacterial Transformation Kit) website:

http://www.bio-rad.com/en-kr/product/pglo-bacterial-transformation-kit

Transform the bacteria (which means making competant E.coli cells take up a plasmid with a gene inserted into it for antibacterial resistance and for the green fluorescent protein(GFP).



  1. Grow up a sample of GFP expressing bacterial cells, and the competant cells, add storage buffer (mostly glycerol) and freeze at -20 for later use.

  2. Grow large amounts of transformed bacteria and try to separate the GFP using a simplified, homemade version of flow rate chromatography.

  3. Run the protein extracts through a polyacrylamide electrophoresis gel.

Restriction digests and further PCR techniques

  1. Grow up the bacterial cells, purify the plasmids and then do restriction digests on them.

  2. Perform PCR on isolated target regions of either genomic or plasmid DNA within the Ecoli cells

Future work

  1. Clone into the bacterial plasmids a protein of interest to confer upon the transformants a specific resistance to antibody or expressed protein leading to a novel ability that can be easily screened (e.g. UV resistance).

  2. Investigate the lac operon, possibly using lac negative Ecoli strains. Possibly using the lac operon as a starting switch, e.g. to express GFP?


7.9.2Proposal for subject-based INSET 2012-3





Department:

Biology and Chemistry

HoD:

P.B. and PG

Number of staff involved in training:

6

Please outline your proposal for Subject-based INSET, including how it will benefit your department professionally and the relevance to subject provision in the department .


A school based session to learn about PCR and its application in Gene Technology. P. Brannac has experience with this and will lead both departments in practicing the use of it in the classroom. This could be backed up by possibly getting someone from Jeju University to come and give a talk on Genetic Engineering. In order for the appropriate experimental preparations to be made to set up the PCR practical we need to allow the gels to set overnight, and we will need afterwards another night to run the PCR and then the gel, so it’s not possible to do on either a Monday or Friday, ideally Thursday so PB in the afternoon can turn off the thermocylcer and then load the gel.

The rationale of getting a joint INSET, is to use it as a basis for launching a Medicinal BioChemistry Society.

Please outline any proposed costs of the INSET, how and when these will need to be paid.

Please note, any non-Korean speakers who are being paid a speaker’s fee will require an employment contract to be drawn up and an E7 short term visa to be obtained.

We have the main pieces of equipment, but will need to order some additional chemicals from Sigma.

We do not have any university contacts yet, so if we were to get a speaker in this would need to be done by someone familiar with the Korean university system and fluent in Korean.

The lecture would hopefully be done at lunchtime so students were able to attend.

In addition to getting up-to date information about current research into DNA science, we also hope that this could initiate the start of a relationship with the speaker and the university which would hopefully be built upon so that eventually our IB students might be able to get work experience in the university’s labs, which is vital for realistic Oxbridge and UK medical school applications.

Proposed date of the training:

Summer Term





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