Frontier and story-map notes
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Students take notes on frontier biomedical technology and GIS story-maps, then complete the PLTW online task.
- Hand in
- Annotated notes with two frontier biomedical challenges and Earth parallels, a GIS story-map component list, and a four-component innovation pitch outline.
- Where
- Turn this in at the drop folder with your district Microsoft sign-in, or hand it to Mr. Mendoza in class. Both count as submitted. Doing the activity in myPLTW does not.
You get two school days for every day you were absent, so this deadline moves with you.
Students take notes on frontier biomedical technology and GIS story-maps, then complete the PLTW online task.
Students take notes on frontier biomedical technology and GIS story-maps, then complete the PLTW online task.
- • Name two frontier biomedical challenges and one Earth application.
- • Submit the PLTW online task fully completed.
- What do you already know about Frontier and story-map notes?
- What would you need to find out to answer today's question?
- 1Annotate notes on biomedical challenges in space and undersea settings.
- 2Describe how a GIS story-map communicates spatial health data.
- 3Connect frontier innovations back to disease prevention on Earth.
- 4Outline the components of a persuasive medical-innovation pitch.
- 5Complete the assigned PLTW online activity on frontier innovation.
🛠 Get unstuck · pick your level
Do the work · 80-minute blockfirst 5 min = hook▸
💡 Big idea: A GIS story-map makes spatial health data visible: where disease concentrates tells you where innovation is most needed.
- 0-5 minWarm-up: name one human health challenge that exists in space that also exists for elderly patients on Earth.
- 5-28 minTeacher-led or self-guided notes: frontier biomedical challenges in space and undersea settings with Earth parallels.
- 28-45 minNotes: GIS story-map components and what each layer communicates.
- 45-55 minOutline the four components of a medical-innovation pitch.
- 55-75 minPLTW online activity on frontier innovation (individual, self-paced).
- 75-80 minExit check: name two frontier challenges and one Earth application for each.
- • Wednesday your team builds the innovation concept and begins the story-map: today's notes give you the technical vocabulary.
- • A story-map is not just a pretty map: it is a structured argument about where the health problem is most severe.
- • WebXam 072110 Biotechnology strand includes spatial data tools as a way to contextualize research findings.
- • The innovation pitch structure you outline today is the skeleton for Thursday's CER.
- • Frontier biomedical challenges (bone-density loss in space, pressure injuries undersea) often parallel Earth conditions like osteoporosis and wound care.
- • A GIS story-map layers geographic, demographic, and health data to reveal spatial patterns invisible in tables.
- • A persuasive innovation pitch has four components: the problem, the solution, the evidence, and the next steps.
Innovation Synthesis: new frontiers and your final medical-innovation pitch · Frontier and story-map notes
Day 2 of this lesson. Open this exact section in myPLTW (find it in Clever, Microsoft sign-in), then do the work below.
Do this: Open myPLTW and navigate to the Lesson 4.2 A New Frontier / Lesson 4.3 Invitation to Innovation frontier innovation and story-map online activity.
Complete all questions and submit before end of period.
You submitted the frontier-ethics reflection Monday. Today finish the full Lessons 4.2 and 4.3 frontier-innovation activity so Wednesday's project uses the correct vocabulary.
Show completion confirmation; keep notes for Wednesday.
The official PLTW activity stays inside myPLTW. If myPLTW will not open, use F1 and E1-E3 on this page to complete today's local evidence decision, then make up the official activity when access returns. Turn this in at the drop folder with your district Microsoft sign-in, or hand it to Mr. Mendoza in class. Both count as submitted. Doing the activity in myPLTW does not.
Check things off as you work, then submit. This tells Mr. Mendoza how you're doing so he can help the class. It does not replace turning in your producible through the submission route shown below.
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Innovation Synthesis: new frontiers and your final medical-innovation pitch · Frontier and story-map notes
Open myPLTW and navigate to the Lesson 4.2 A New Frontier / Lesson 4.3 Invitation to Innovation frontier innovation and story-map online activity.
You submitted the frontier-ethics reflection Monday. Today finish the full Lessons 4.2 and 4.3 frontier-innovation activity so Wednesday's project uses the correct vocabulary.
This is how Mr. Mendoza sees the class keeping pace with PLTW. Be honest, it only helps if it is accurate.
🎯 Students take notes on frontier biomedical technology and GIS story-maps, then complete the PLTW online task.
- Annotate notes on biomedical challenges in space and undersea settings.
- Describe how a GIS story-map communicates spatial health data.
- Connect frontier innovations back to disease prevention on Earth.
- Outline the components of a persuasive medical-innovation pitch.
- Complete the assigned PLTW online activity on frontier innovation.
Notebook check: Annotated notes with two frontier biomedical challenges and Earth parallels, a GIS story-map component list, and a four-component innovation pitch outline.
Turn this in at the drop folder with your district Microsoft sign-in, or hand it to Mr. Mendoza in class. Both count as submitted. Doing the activity in myPLTW does not. Use the checklist just below and upload by 11:29 PM for full credit. Absent with an excused absence? You get two school days for every day you were absent, so this deadline moves with you.
| Task | Who |
|---|---|
| Annotate notes on biomedical challenges in space and undersea settings. | _______ |
| Describe how a GIS story-map communicates spatial health data. | _______ |
| Connect frontier innovations back to disease prevention on Earth. | _______ |
| Outline the components of a persuasive medical-innovation pitch. | _______ |
| Complete the assigned PLTW online activity on frontier innovation. | _______ |
Working solo? Put your own name in "Who" for every row.
- Name two frontier biomedical challenges and one Earth application.
- Submit the PLTW online task fully completed.
- 1Do thisStudents take notes on frontier biomedical technology and GIS story-maps, then complete the PLTW online task.
- 2Use this resource
- 3Submit thisNotebook check: Annotated notes with two frontier biomedical challenges and Earth parallels, a GIS story-map component list, and a four-component innovation pitch outline.
- 4Submit it here
- 1Open the drop folder.
- 2Sign in with your district Microsoft account, not a personal one.
- 3Upload the file, named Lastname_Firstname__Assignment Title.
- 4Your own upload panel says Uploaded with a green check: that is your receipt.
Turn this in at the drop folder with your district Microsoft sign-in, or hand it to Mr. Mendoza in class. Both count as submitted. Doing the activity in myPLTW does not. Principles of Biomedical Technology (Principles of Biomedical Science) › Innovation Synthesis: new frontiers and your final medical-innovation pitch › Notebook checkOpen the drop folder
Learn it · deck, reading, and vocabulary▸
The deck carries the prior idea forward, lets you inspect an analogy, maps the rule to biology, and ends with the same evidence decision and exit ticket used on this page.
Generated from this lesson's canonical data with a red-team citation check.
Frontier biomedical research often produces unexpected breakthroughs for everyday patients: the debate is how much investment is worth an uncertain payoff.
A GIS story-map makes spatial health data visible: where disease concentrates tells you where innovation is most needed.
A detective board holds observations, possible explanations, and one next question.
- Which notes are direct observations?
- Which notes are explanations?
- What new evidence would separate the explanations?
Keep observations separate from explanations, then collect the evidence that can distinguish the options.
Biomedical investigations use controlled procedures and validated measurements, not intuition alone.
- • Board notes map to E1-E3.
- • Possible explanations map to the decision options.
- • The next question maps to the evidence-based action.
Driving question: Students take notes on frontier biomedical technology and GIS story-maps, then complete the PLTW online task.
What you already know: Frontier biomedical research often produces unexpected breakthroughs for everyday patients: the debate is how much investment is worth an uncertain payoff.
New idea: A GIS story-map makes spatial health data visible: where disease concentrates tells you where innovation is most needed.
Visual or model: F1. F1. A lesson illustration or teaching diagram for Frontier and story-map notes. Use it with E1-E3; it is a model or context image, not experimental or patient data. What to notice: Trace the labeled observation or evidence sequence before choosing an explanation.
- Observe or measure the relevant feature in Frontier and story-map notes.
- Organize the observation with a stable evidence ID.
- Apply this rule: Keep observations separate from explanations, then collect the evidence that can distinguish the options.
- Choose the option the evidence supports and state the limit of the conclusion.
Real biomedical example: Students take notes on frontier biomedical technology and GIS story-maps, then complete the PLTW online task.
What the evidence supports: E1-E3 and F1 support the daily take-home when the response meets the stated success criteria.
What it cannot prove: The package does not support claims beyond this lesson's or any real patient diagnosis.
Use it now: Choose one decision option. Cite E1 and E3, then explain how the rule connects the evidence to your choice.
Go further, optional: The source links below are optional enrichment. Every fact required for today's local evidence decision appears in this lesson package.
Frontier biomedical challenges (bone-density loss in space, pressure injuries undersea) often parallel Earth conditions like osteoporosis and wound care.
Limit: E1 supplies context or an observation; it does not by itself establish the explanation.
A GIS story-map makes spatial health data visible: where disease concentrates tells you where innovation is most needed.
Limit: E2 is a teaching statement or comparison and must be checked against the task evidence.
Name two frontier biomedical challenges and one Earth application.
Limit: E3 supports only the result or product criterion named here; it cannot justify a broader clinical or causal claim.
PLTW-PBT-2026-12-15 · Simulated classroom evidence scenario
Your role: biomedical investigator
Decision: Your team must decide what the evidence from Frontier and story-map notes supports before submitting the notebook record named on the lesson page.
- • Select the option best supported by E1-E3.
- • Select a reasonable alternative and name the evidence it would require.
- • Delay the claim because the evidence does not distinguish the options.
Response: State one choice, cite at least two evidence IDs, explain the rule that connects them, and add one limitation. Submit it as the notebook record.
Claim ceiling: The supplied lesson evidence can support an observation, pattern, classroom mechanism, or next-step decision about Frontier and story-map notes. It cannot by itself prove causation, establish a real clinical diagnosis, or justify action outside this classroom task.
- • The solution must address the stated need in Frontier and story-map notes.
- • The decision must be supported by E1-E3.
- • The final product must make the success criteria visible.
- • Complete the work inside the 80-minute block.
- • Use only supplied or teacher-approved materials and evidence.
- • Do not trade , accessibility, or privacy for speed.
- • and evidence quality: must pass before scoring other criteria.
- • User need and effectiveness: highest scored criterion.
- • Time, cost, and ease of use: compare only after and effectiveness pass.
Test evidence: For each option, record the E1-E3 result that supports or fails each criterion. Do not assign a score without a named observation.
- Version or option tested
- Criterion met or missed
- Evidence ID and result
- Revision made
- Reason for the revision
- Need and user
- Criteria and constraints
- Chosen option and evidence
- Test result
- Revision and reason
Two frontier biomedical challenges and their Earth parallels:
- Space: microgravity causes rapid bone-density and muscle loss. Earth parallel: the same countermeasures inform osteoporosis and bed-rest muscle-wasting treatments.
- Undersea / hyperbaric: high-pressure environments risk decompression injury and oxygen toxicity. Earth parallel: hyperbaric oxygen therapy is now used to heal chronic wounds and treat carbon-monoxide poisoning.
What a GIS story-map communicates:
- A GIS story-map layers health data onto a map so you can see WHERE events happen, not just how many. Components I will use: a base map, a data layer (cases or exposure points by location), a legend, and short narrative text panels that walk the reader through the pattern.
Four-component innovation pitch outline:
- Problem: the specific health need, stated with a number.
- Solution: the innovation and how it works.
- Evidence: data from prior units and the story-map that support it.
- Next step and limits: what to develop or test next, and what is still unknown.
Earth application in one line: frontier constraints force efficient, portable designs, and portable diagnostics built for a submarine or capsule also serve rural clinics with no lab.
This model shows the level of evidence and organization needed to complete: Completes the frontier note-taking task: two frontier biomedical challenges with Earth parallels, the components of a GIS story-map, and a four-part innovation-pitch outline.
- Date and label the entry.
- Record the procedure, observation, or design decision clearly.
- End with what the evidence means and the next step.
Keep the structure. Replace the question, facts, measurements, and evidence. Then recheck units, vocabulary, and whether the conclusion goes beyond the evidence.
Also due today: Complete the assigned PLTW online activity on frontier innovation, then keep your notes for the team project.
- 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.
Hand-picked readings and interactives for this lesson, from authoritative open organizations and PLTW's own public course outline.
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Claim ceiling for this check: The supplied lesson evidence can support an observation, pattern, classroom mechanism, or next-step decision about Frontier and story-map notes. It cannot by itself prove causation, establish a real clinical diagnosis, or justify action outside this classroom task.
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What today's skills lead to. These are real health-science careers this course builds toward. Tap one to see, on the US Department of Labor's O*NET site, what the job actually involves, what it pays, and how fast it is growing.
Today is individual work you can do from home: complete the same target above, then submit your Notebook check.
Open the drop folderTurn this in at the drop folder with your district Microsoft sign-in, or hand it to Mr. Mendoza in class. Both count as submitted. Doing the activity in myPLTW does not.
Class still runs. Complete the online activity above (it's self-guided). Need the concept taught without a teacher? Use this authoritative explainer:
NIBIB: biomedical engineering science topics and new frontiersYou've passed Unit 2, so the optional extra-credit track is open. Complete reserved-unit work from home, including virtual labs, for extra credit. Each item shows its correct submission route.
Open the extra-credit track- CompleteEvery required part of the artifact is present, nothing left blank.
- AccurateThe science and the data are correct and match the evidence.
- Scientific reasoningYou explain your claim with evidence and reasoning (CER), not just an answer.
- Professional communicationClear, organized, labeled, and written the way a clinician or scientist would.
- SubmittedTurned in the right way, on the class site or handed to Mr. Mendoza in class, and confirmed. Not in Schoology: that is where the report-card grade appears later.