Teaching Guide: Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration
This teaching guide helps educators to integrate the Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration simulation into an advanced high school biology lesson. Students will develop skills in experimental design and data analysis as they use a colorimetric pH indicator to assess levels of photosynthesis and cellular respiration and collect qualitative and quantitative data.
Topics
- AP
- AP Biology
- AP Bio
- next generation science standards
- NGSS
- pH
- proton concentration
- solution
- acid
- acidity
- pH scale
- interactive
- measuring
- proton
- pH value
- indicator
- pH indicator
- BTB
- bromothymol blue
- photosynthesis
- carbon dioxide
- water
- plant
- Elodea
- cellular respiration
- respiration
- standard curve
- chloroplast
- mitochondrion
- mitochondria
- chemical energy
- ATP
- light energy
- spectrophotometer
- cuvette
- blank
- blank cuvette
- carbonic acid
- bicarbonate
- Le Chatelier principle
- protonated
- deprotonated
- visible light
- light spectrum
- absorbance
- quantitative data
- qualitative data
- best-fit line
- biomass
- global warming
- time course