Genetics: Finalizing Our Driving Questions

We spent three days sharing our interests from our wonders and looked at how we could merge ideas into a deep, driving question with a call to action. Students did a great job pulling up their notes from our last project on what makes a quality driving question and what it should include.  

Here are our revised driving questions for genetics (which may continue to change as DQs should be flexible):


How can we as kid scientists find out more information about kidney disease and transplants in people and use that information to tell Atlanta kidney transplant center about it to find a faster more efficient cure?

How can we help animals with a disabled bodies like X-linked muscular dystrophy and how can we make a comfy product that will exercise them properly and help them with their weak muscles and not agitate the animals but make a difference with them and help them with  their disabilities so they can have a normal life and adjust to our product?  

How can we find out if a baby has CP when it’s still in the womb and what tests are run to notify parents that their baby has CP and what treatments would the baby go through and can we work with a support group for the parents?

How do cells form to make conjoined twins and who are some twins that have survived and learn to adapt to it? Also how can we contact doctors or people that have conjoined twins and get research from them and how can we use this research to help conjoined twins and how can we  share this research with Seattle Therapy?

What is breast cancer and how can it be genetically  passed down from person to person and how can we pull that information to interview a survivor from breast cancer and share that information with others?