2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Cellular agriculture is the emerging field of producing animal products from cell culture, rather than directly from animals. A multidisciplinary field, cellular agriculture integrates biomedical engineering, nutrition, animal science and more. Our project has developed a set of resources and prompts that support educators in having high school students discuss the potential cascading consequences of advances in cellular agriculture. Leveraging YouTube videos, presentations, and Google JamBoard, the resource supports students doing research and mapping who is involved and impacted by changes in agriculture. The resulting Google JamBoards serve as representations to ground discussions about the wide range of impacts and ethics involved in both the engineering of cellular agricultural products and their distribution. This Resource Exchange submission will share a free activity guide and resources to support other educators enacting this discussion in their setting.