Molecule-to-patient decision making; validity, reliability, false results, and treatment planning.
Your PLTW coursework: Medical Interventions ▸ Unit 2: How to Screen What is In Your Genes ▸ Lesson 2.2 Our Genetic Future
What to do if absent- CER:
- Claim, Evidence, Reasoning: make a claim, back it with evidence, explain your reasoning.
- SOP:
- Standard Operating Procedure, the exact steps to follow (especially in a lab).
- Tracker:
- Your PLTW progress log where you record completed evidence.
- myPLTW:
- The PLTW course site where you do the online activities. Find it in Clever with your Microsoft sign-in, right next to Schoology.
Week overview - Molecule to Patient: Unit 2 Synthesis
Combine testing, counseling, and intervention decisions into a patient case that weighs validity, reliability, and false results.
- 1Reopen your corrected unit test in the PLTW course shell and list the two questions you missed.
- 2For each miss, write one sentence explaining the right answer in your own words.
- 3Define validity and reliability and give one example of each from a test you studied.
- 4Decide how a and a would each change a patient's .
- 5Draft a short that moves your patient from to a clear next action.
- 6Add one equity question about who can access this screening, ready for the Monday debate.
- • You'll be able to explain validity versus reliability with examples.
- • You'll be able to distinguish false positives from false negatives and their effects.
- • You'll be able to outline a molecule-to-patient .
Daily lessons this week
Open any day for its full lesson, the work due that day, and guided notes.
One CER on whether genetic screening is offered equitably, plus a reflection naming one cost or access counterargument.
Annotated synthesis case packet: each test listed with its molecular output and validity/reliability label, plus one sentence on the most influential result.
Evidence sort table (strong/moderate/weak with one-word reasons) plus two false-result sentences and a justification for the most trusted result.
Treatment recommendation draft: diagnosis, plan, one monitoring step, one named false-result risk with detection strategy, each element linked to evidence.
Completed Unit 2 summative test plus a tracker audit confirming all Unit 2 benchmarks are marked complete.
Quick intro to the week
- Today matters because real medicine asks you to pull every tool together into one careful decision for a person.
- Goal for today: synthesize testing, counseling, and intervention into a patient case you can defend.
- Monday's debate is screening equity: who can reach these tests, and is that fair?
- Your corrected-test reflection and case plan are graded in the PLTW course shell, so finalize them there.
Your PLTW coursework this week
Do this: Advance the Unit 2 synthesis benchmark by submitting your molecule-to-patient case with a on the class site.
- • Validity is whether a test measures what it claims, and reliability is whether it gives consistent results.
- • A flags disease that is not there, while a misses real disease.
- • A connects a to concrete patient next steps.
- • Evaluate a test using validity and reliability.
- • Build a from a .
📋 Tracker evidence due this week: your corrected-test reflection and molecule-to-patient case plan submitted on the class site.
All PLTW activities are completed inside the PLTW course environment: this page only gives direction.
This week's PLTW tracker
Your week at a glance. Check off each deliverable as you finish it, then submit so Mr. Mendoza can see how the class is pacing.
Use the code Mr. Mendoza gave you, not your name. Saved on this device.
| Day | Date | Focus | Key deliverable |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friday | Fri, Oct 30 | Screening equity debate | One CER on whether genetic screening is offered equitably, plus a reflection naming one cost or access counterargument. |
| Wednesday | Wed, Nov 4 | Molecule-to-patient case packet | Annotated synthesis case packet: each test listed with its molecular output and validity/reliability label, plus one sentence on the most influential result. |
| Thursday | Thu, Nov 5 | Evidence sort and false results | Evidence sort table (strong/moderate/weak with one-word reasons) plus two false-result sentences and a justification for the most trusted result. |
| Thursday | - | Treatment recommendation draft | Treatment recommendation draft: diagnosis, plan, one monitoring step, one named false-result risk with detection strategy, each element linked to evidence. |
| Friday | - | Unit 2 summative | Completed Unit 2 summative test plus a tracker audit confirming all Unit 2 benchmarks are marked complete. |
- M: screening equity debate
- T: case packet
- W: evidence sort
- Th: recommendation draft
- F: Unit 2 summative
Due by week's end: Unit 2 summative test and PLTW tracker audit.
5 panels from the illustrated semester.
Fiction. There is no such student. The lessons, labs and dates are the real planned course; the student, the classmates and the conversations are invented.
What to do when absent
Most days, this class is your PLTW coursework: and PLTW is online and individual. So being out usually just means doing exactly what we did in class, from home.
Open Clever, then myPLTWHow to get there: open Clever and sign in with your Microsoft (district) account. Both myPLTW and Schoology are in Clever. Do the activity in myPLTW. Turn the work in on this site or hand it to Mr. Mendoza, because that is the step that counts as submitted. Schoology only shows your report-card grade later.
You can't do those from home: do this instead: Corrected test reflection.
Class still runs. A substitute will post today's plan: complete the online activity above; it's built to be self-guided. Need the concept taught without a teacher? Use this authoritative explainer:
MedlinePlus: How is genetic testing done and what do results mean?Vocabulary
Teacher-posted resources
Classroom documents for this lesson are posted in Schoology. Open Clever, then Schoology, and find each one by the name shown on its card.
Use this if you were absent, got stuck, or need another pass before you submit the lesson artifact.
Placement rationale
Matched Unit 2 synthesis and by path:Medical-Interventions/Unit-2_How-to-Screen-Your-Genes; keywords:genetic counseling, screening, testing. Score 154. Visibility: student-schoology (student-facing resource; link through Schoology rather than local path).
Use this after the required lesson work when you are ready for a harder application or a deeper connection.
Placement rationale
Matched Unit 2 synthesis and by path:Medical-Interventions/Unit-2_How-to-Screen-Your-Genes; keywords:genetic counseling, screening, testing. Score 146. Visibility: student-schoology (student-facing resource; link through Schoology rather than local path).
Use this after the required lesson work when you are ready for a harder application or a deeper connection.
Placement rationale
Matched Unit 2 synthesis and by path:Medical-Interventions/Unit-2_How-to-Screen-Your-Genes; keywords:genetic counseling, screening, testing. Score 142. Visibility: student-schoology (student-facing resource; link through Schoology rather than local path).
How to get there: open Clever and sign in with your Microsoft (district) account. Both myPLTW and Schoology are in Clever. Do the activity in myPLTW. Turn the work in on this site or hand it to Mr. Mendoza, because that is the step that counts as submitted. Schoology only shows your report-card grade later.