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\nOur Hungry Planet: Food for a Growing Population\n

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\nBugs for breakfast? The Flipside science unit module, “Our Hungry Planet: Food for a Growing Population,” introduces middle schoolers to issues related to food production and innovative solutions to world hunger. Scholars investigate the...\n
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\nViruses: Virus Replication and the Mysterious Common Cold\n

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\nViruses were nano before it was cool. The video discusses viruses such as the common cold and HIV. It includes the structure of a virus and the two cycles: the lytic cycle and the lysogenic cycle. \n
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\nGerms, parasites, and viruses, oh my! Facilitate a lesson plan on viruses as individuals explore functions of Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukarya. They learn how viruses compare with other organisms in nature and how they contribute to...\n
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\nHow A Virus Invades Your Body\n

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\nThis simplified explanation is an entertaining way to see how viruses reproduce in the human body. Brilliant animation and humorous commentary will keep your junior high class engaged while they observe the basics about viruses. Follow...\n
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\nViruses\n

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\nHigh school science classes will find this video intriguing. Viruses contain genetic information, but there are strong arguments for whether viruses are living or not. Replication versus metabolism, as well as some details about the...\n
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\nViruses/Infectious Diseases: What's Really Bugging You?\n

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\nMiddle school life science or health classes listen to an audio, visit websites, read different articles, and participate in a class-wide simulation about the spread of viruses. The activity doesn't get into the mechanics of how viruses...\n
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\nViral Lifecycle\n

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\nThis lesson has gone viral ... literally! An animation video describes how a single virus cell gives rise to a multitude of progeny viruses. Learners explore how a virus infects many cells in a short amount of time.\n
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\nViral DNA Integration\n

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\nHow do viruses hijack our cells to produce more viral particles? Junior immunologists model how viral RNA integrates into a host cell's DNA using pop beads and use interactive tools to explore a virus' genome. The teacher's guide...\n
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\nVirus Explorer\n

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\nMost pupils know about the flu, HIV, and other viruses, but they don't know what each actually looks like. This interactive shows their relative size, structure, and allows for comparisons. It stresses the similarities and differences...\n
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\nDengue Virus Life Cycle\n

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\nDengue Virus leads to the deaths of around 25,000 people, mostly children, every year. Scientists understand how the virus gets into cells and replicates, but they still struggle to prevent it. Curious scholars view an animation of the...\n
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\nViruses, Viroids, and Prions\n

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\nAre viruses living or non-living? According to the presentation, they are both and neither. Clearly, this requires clarification and an in-depth look at viruses, viroids, and prions. Young scientists learn about the history, structure,...\n
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\nCompare and contrast eukaryotes, prokaryotes, and viruses with a chart and a Venn diagram. Beginning microbiologists consider motility, reproductive ability, DNA content, and the presence of organelles. They write short answers to...\n
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\nDengue Virus Enters a Cell\n

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\nDoctors offer limited treatment options and no vaccine for Dengue Virus, which often requires intensive care. Scientists understand how the virus gets into cells and replicates, knowledge which they hope will lead to a cure or treatment....\n
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\nViral Replication\n

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\nExplain how viruses use the lytic and lysogenic cycles with an explanatory video. The resource also describes retroviruses and the virulence of bacteria. \n
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\nViruses and the Common Cold!\n

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\nWhat do you really know about the common cold? Introduce learners to viruses, their components, and how they use host cells to replicate and infect more cells. Pupils identify the type of virus that causes the common cold and get...\n
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\nViruses and Bacteria\n

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\nA series of questions about archaebacteria and eubacteria reinforce a chapter on viruses and bacteria. This activity is from chapter 18 of an unspecified textbook, but could work with your biology lecture as well. High schoolers identify...\n
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\nBacteria and Viruses Have DNA Too\n

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\nIn the 1940s, scientists discovered bacteria conjugation, the process of DNA transfer or bacterial sex. The discovery proved that bacteria and viruses contain DNA and led to a Nobel prize. Interested individuals learn about the...\n
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\nAnatomy of a Virus\n

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\nThis PowerPoint summarizes details about the virus from the structure and reproduction methods to the different modes of infection.  Various viral diseases of animals and plants, viroids, prions and genetic origins of viruses are...\n
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\nIf your students are learning about viruses this powerpoint has clear slides with some nice images that could be used as review or as a summary to illustrate a lecture.\n
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\nHow do reverse transcriptase inhibitors work? Young virologists examine the function of azidothymidine, a drug doctors use to treat HIV patients, during a hands-on modeling activity. Groups create a strand of DNA from an HIV RNA strand...\n
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\nAP biology and college microbiology classes benefit by completing this seven-page worksheet on microbes. An exhaustive set of questions addresses the characteristics and reproduction of viruses, classification and uses of bacteria, and...\n
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\nIntroduction to Evolution and Natural Selection\n

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\nThe evidence for natural selection is presented as a random variation of a characteristic allowing a particular strain of organism to survive with a higher probability of successful reproduction. Population change over a short period is...\n
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\nViral Hijackers\n

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\nStudents discover how viruses effect living organisms. Focusing on HIV, they explain why it is unique and how it attacks the immune system. They simulate the spread of viruses through an experiment using water containing sodium...\n
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