1. Presented by Raji Arora, Founder STEM Shed raji@stemshed.com
Coding Genetic Code
Presented by
Raji Arora,
Founder STEM Shed

2. Introduction Coding Genetic code overview Standards Alignment
STEM Shed & iBio EDUCATE
Sub modules
Model Building
Banana Genome exploration
Multimedia presentation to understand scale
Coding Modules
How presentation will benefit audience: Adult learners are more interested in a subject if they know how or why it is important to them.
Presenter’s level of expertise in the subject: Briefly state your credentials in this area, or explain why participants should listen to you.

3. Overview
A lesson plan to integrate computer science curriculum with Life Sciences
Developed in Collaboration with iBio EDUCATE
Non-profit in Life Sciences education
Conducts teachers workshops, afterschool programs, summer camps
Hands-on activities, multimedia resources, coding modules
A pilot as part of a summer camp at Red Bud IL
Future roadmap to build apps for teaching more advanced concepts, including transcription, translation, and protein structure
Lesson descriptions should be brief.

4. Standards Alignment AP Computer Science NGSS Example objectives
At the end of this lesson, you will be able to:
Save files to the team Web server.
Move files to different locations on the team Web server.
Share files on the team Web server.

5. Model Building Goals Understand DNA structure
Understand how nucleotides, phosphates and sugar fit together
Build a 3D model to understand double Helix using KNEX kit

6. Banana Genome Exploration
Preceded by DNA extraction activity
Explore Banana Genome Hub
Build a protein sequence using KNEX

7. Multimedia resources Videos
Connect the need of computation and technology in life sciences

8. Coding Online accounts at code.org
Provides an interactive coding environment, AppLab
Code scaffolds into “blocks”
Students use pre-created user ids to log in
Apps pre-loaded into account

9. App 1 – Data management Introduce Constants and Variables
Simple UI to show the difference between runtime changes versus compile time changes

10. App – 2 Conditional Statements and control flow
Introduce If – then – else blocks
Simple app to incorporate logic to create multilingual greeting

11. App 3 – Iterative blocks The concept of repetitive tasks
Change of control based on state

12. App 4 – Abstraction Concept of names blocks of code
Parameter passing and return values

13. App 5 – Nucleotide Complement
Use variables to check state
Use conditionals to code DNA complement rule
Fix a bug in the code

14. App 6 – DNA Strand Complement
Use iterative blocks
Function blocks

15. Questions Raji Arora, MS, MBA Technologist, Entrepreneur
Founder, STEM Shed