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Virginia Department of Education

Genetic Variation and Mutations

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scientists demonstrate their creativity while completing several activities, to assess genetic variations and mutations. Instructors provide a list of options and scientists choose to write a comic strip, create a book,...
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Virginia Department of Education

Biotechnological Issues and Bioethics

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Culminate a bioethics unit with the implementation of a activity that incorporates the Socratic method to encourage class feedback and participation. Pupils participate in a discussion on bioethics and morality, complete a...
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Virginia Department of Education

Mendelian Genetics

For Teachers 9th - 12th
How did Mendel know which pea plants would demonstrate certain characteristics? Pupils explore the answer this question, among others, as they complete Punnet squares, research dominant and recessive traits, and explore hereditary...
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Virginia Department of Education

Meiosis

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Intrigue the class by completing a lesson on meiosis, filled with challenging and insightful activities to spark the interest of every person in the room. Each member of the class learns about genetic disorders due to faulty meiosis, and...
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Curated OER

Separating a Starch-Glucose Mixture Using Gel Filtration

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students experiment using the basic principles of gel filtration. They use the gel filtration technique for testing for the presence of specific substances. Students discover that starch is a larger molecule than glucose.
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Curated OER

How Mutations Lead to Changes in Cell Structure and Function

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers investigate how mutations lead to changes in cell structure and function. They construct an oligonucleotide, identify a protein sequence, design a step-by-step mechanism of how they think cells repair damaged DNA, and...
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Curated OER

Characterization of the Bioluminescence (Lux+) Gene E. coli

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students grow E. coli strain HB101, which contains the plasmid pUCD607 with the bioluminescence (Lux+) gene. The plasmid containing the Lux+ gene is isolated from the E. coli, then characterized by restriction analysis.
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Curated OER

Pharmaceuticals and Treatments

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
Young scholars perform an experiment involving reverse transcriptase-polymerized chain reaction HIV replication to better examine the biotechnology used by scientists in pharmaceutical research of infections diseases like HIV. Students...
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Socratica

Chemistry: What Is a Metal? (Metallic Bonds)

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Metals offer unique properties thanks to the structure of their valence electrons. The Socratica chemistry playlist includes this video explaining what a metal is and the properties of metals. It focuses on their structures, features,...
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Curated OER

Technology-Lesson 3-Putting Technology to Work

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students explain the use of different technologies based on their resolving power. Explain how technologies are used to solve scientific and health-related problems. Explain the concept of using right tool for the job and develop a multi...
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Empirical Formula

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
With empirical formulas, it's all about keeping it simple! Introduce the concept of empirical formula to your chemistry scholars through a detailed video from Socratica's Chemistry Lessons series. The resource uses visual...
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Serendip

Genetic Engineering Challenge – How Can Scientists Develop a Type of Rice That Could Prevent Vitamin A Deficiency?

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Brown rice contains vitamins B and E, while white rice lasts longer in storage. The availability of rice around the world makes it a great candidate for genetic engineering. Scholars apply their knowledge of genetic engineering to solve...
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Curated OER

Trichinella Forensics

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students engage in DNA manipulation using forensics techniques. Students investigate topics involved in forensics studies such as cloning, electrophoresis, gene mapping, replication, and transcription.
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Socratica

Chemistry: What Is an Ionic Bond?

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Teach your class all they want to know about ionic bonds. An engaging video, part of the Socratica "Chemistry Lessons" playlist, explains what ionic bonds are and how they form. It describes multiple examples of ionic bonds and...
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Chemistry: What Is a Covalent Bond? (Polar and Nonpolar)

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
When it comes to covalent bonding, sharing is caring! As part of the Socratica chemistry playlist, a useful video explains the definition of covalent bonding. Then, it works through examples of single bonding, double bonding, polar...
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Chemistry: Stoichiometry Part 2—Mass to Mass Conversions

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
The term stoichiometry derives from the Greek words stoicheion meaning element and metron meaning measure. The second Socratica video in a two-part series within a larger chemistry playlist introduces more complex stoichiometry...
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Chemistry: Balancing Chemical Equations—Algebraic Method

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
If you love algebra, then you're gonna love this balancing method! Introduce young chemists to the algebraic method of balancing chemical equations using a video from an informative chemistry  playlist. The narrator works five...
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Socratica

Chemistry: Introduction to Unit Conversion and Dimensional Analysis (Part 2)

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
If you know how much carbon dioxide you produce in one breath, can you figure out how much you produce in one month? Socratica helps solve multi-step unit conversion problems. The video walks through how to set up these challenges and...
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Chemistry: Average Atomic Mass (AMU, Daltons, etc.)

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Scientists created a new measurement, the atomic mass unit, which is defined as carbon 12 = 12amu. So why isn't carbon listed as having exactly 12 amu on the periodic table? An installment from the Socratica chemistry playlist answers...
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Chemistry: Percent Composition

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
How much oxygen is in water? Is it the same as the chemical formula? Learners observe the differences between a substance's formula and its percent composition with a video from Socratica's Chemistry Lessons series. The narrator...
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Curated OER

Smelly Balloons

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers investigate the concept of diffusion through a membrane. They do this through the conduction of a simple experiment. Students make observations while determining if the smell of different chemicals seeps through the...
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Curated OER

Innocent or Guilty: A Lab on DNA Gel Electrophoresis

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Learners use the prelab as an introduction to the importance of DNA fingerprinting- a form of identification that us being accepted by both scientific and leagl experts. They prepare a gel for electrophoresis. DNA fragments, which have...
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Curated OER

Human Origins: The Prehistoric Human Race

For Teachers 9th - 12th
When it comes to the origin of the human species high schoolers are full of misconceptions. Clear up the hominid confusion with this evolutionary activity focused on assisting students in understanding prehistoric man and his family...
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Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Repellant Ephrin Signals Guide Limb Innervations

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
The foot bone connects to the leg bone, but how? Learn about how neurons grow in the proper direction thanks to signalling. Observe what happens when they encounter a repulsive ephrin signal and the correction process that takes place.

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