Students use food (licorice and marshmallows or fruit) to make models of DNA.

An experiment where students remove DNA from strawberries using everyday materials.

A tutorial on genetic engineering. Students work their way through illustrations and animated tutorials about how genetic modification works and the ethical issues surrounding this scientific practice. The last two sections have...

Explore the scientific breakthroughs in understanding the genes that control the way we age. Collect your own samples of active nematodes by assembling and using a device called a Baermann Funnel, then observe the behavior of these worms.

This site from the PBS production, Scientific American Frontier "Never Say Die", includes a section entitled "The Clock of Life". It provides a discussion of cell death through shortening of the telomere. A good class activity included.

This is a fantastic biography of Rosalind Franklin. It has links to both additional information and images to help illustrate the biography.