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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Dna Build

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students reinforce their knowledge that DNA is the genetic material for all living things by modeling it using toothpicks and gumdrops that represent the four biochemicals (adenine, thiamine, guanine, and cytosine) that pair with each...
Professional Doc
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Dna Interactive: Teacher Guide

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Teacher resource page provides links to additional teacher materials, the six units, student worksheets and templates that can be used as teachers and students work through the DNA Interactive site.
Interactive
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Dolan Dna Learning Center: Disease & Mutation: Sickle Cell

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief overview of Sickle cell anemia, a genetic disease that affects hemoglobin in the blood. [1:30]
Interactive
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Dolan Dna Learning Center: Inheritance Calculator: Blank Make Your Own

For Students 9th - 10th
An interactive Punnett Square calculator which allows students to work out patterns of inheritance for any autosomal recessive genetic trait or disease.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Religion and Ethics Weekly: Dr. Francis S. Collins Interview

For Students 9th - 10th
Read a discussion with Francis S. Collins, director of the Human Genome Project, who touches on the role that faith plays in his profession. Collins discusses the Human Genome Project and its goals and results, genetic disorders, and the...
Website
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Hhmi: Biointeractive: Neuroscience: Tri Nucleotide Repeat

For Students 9th - 10th
A narrated animation demonstrating a the DNA replication problem, trinucleotide repeat. Video [1:08]
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Translocations in the Germline

For Students 9th - 10th
Read this passage and study the graphics to complete a five-question quiz related to translocation.