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- CSI Dublin: The Hunt for the Irish Potato Killer
- In these lesson plans, students will act as CSI agents investigating the mysterious pathogen that caused the massive potato crop failure and resultant Great Famine of 1845 in Ireland.
- Format: lesson plan (multiple pages)
- Identifying a potato killer via
- In CSI Dublin: The Hunt for the Irish Potato Killer, page 4
- In this lesson, students use DNA extraction, polymerase chain reaction, and gel electrophoresis techniques to identify positive and negative leaf samples for the presence of the plant pathogen Phytophthora infestans.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Science)
- By Rebecca Hite.
- Isolating a potato killer
- In CSI Dublin: The Hunt for the Irish Potato Killer, page 2
- In this lesson, students use Koch’s postulates to demonstrate the causal relationship between microbe and disease by transmitting Phytophthora infestans from an infected potato tuber to a healthy potato specimen.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts and Science)
- By Rebecca Hite.
- Profiling a potato killer
- In CSI Dublin: The Hunt for the Irish Potato Killer, page 3
- In this lesson, students use internet resources to determine the factors behind the potato blight that led to the most destructive famine in human history. Students will use the scientific method and inquiry to determine how the pathogen spread over the world and learn some of the historical context surrounding this tragedy.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 Science)
- By Rebecca Hite.
- Tracking a potato killer: Using latitude and longitude to map the spread of P. infestans
- In CSI Dublin: The Hunt for the Irish Potato Killer, page 1
- Students use latitude and longitude to follow the transmission of the plant pathogen, Phytophthora infestans, the causal agent of the Irish Potato Famine.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8–12 English Language Arts and Science)
- By Rebecca Hite.
