The Use of Corn and Sugarcane to Produce Ethanol Biofuel
Tested Studies in Laboratory Teaching, 2011, Volume 32
Valerie S. Banschbach & Robert Letovsky
Abstract
The controversy over using food crops to produce fuel provides a new way to engage students in learning important biological concepts. We present instructor's notes and provide information from an American Biology Teacher article we published in 2010 describing a laboratory experiment in which students investigate the process of ethanol fuel production and then integrate their scientific analysis with a discussion of the economic and environmental impacts of ethanol as fuel. This exercise is suitable for college and high school environmental studies, environmental science and biology courses. Because ethanol fuel production is based upon fermentation, students who conduct this experiment will learn about that fundamental biological process while relating that process to significant current events.
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