Unit Plan
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Harlem Dna Lab: Bacterial Transformations

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lab, students will transform E. Coli bacteria to be resistant to ampicillin and to glow green. Students will use genetic engineering techniques to insert plasmids into the bacteria. The site contains background reading,...
Interactive
University of Utah

University of Utah: Dna Mircoarray Virtual Lab

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive lab will enhance learning about DNA by virtually translating a gene.
Activity
Chemistry Collective

Chem Collective: Unknown Concentration of Dna Solution Problem

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this advanced limiting reagent problem, students use the virtual lab to determine the concentration of a solution of DNA by reacting it with known amounts of a fluorescent dye which binds to the DNA.
Activity
Chemistry Collective

Chem Collective: Dna Binding Problem

For Students 9th - 10th
In this activity, students explore equilibrium constants in biochemical systems by measuring the binding constant of a DNA-Dye reaction.
Unit Plan
Carnegie Mellon University

Chem Collective: Dna Binding Dyes Scenario

For Students 9th - 10th
This activity explores the equilibrium of dyes that self-assemble into DNA templates. Students use knowledge of equilibrium and quantitative spectroscopy to explore different dyes that bind selectively to DNA molecules. In this activity,...
Activity
Smithsonian Institution

Lemelson Center: Spark!lab: Extract Dna

For Students 9th - 10th
Dissect strawberries and use common household ingredients to successfully extract and examine the strawberry DNA.
Interactive
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench: Modeling Dna Hybridization

For Students 9th - 10th
View this simulation of DNA Hybridization.
Activity
National Health Museum

Access Excellence: Dna Dry Lab

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lab illustrates how the order of nucleotides in DNA determines the order of amino acids in proteins. Relates DNA function to that of RNAand provides an exercise to demonstrate how mutations may occur. Includes a lesson plan and...
Activity
National Health Museum

Access Excellence: Wolf Pack in a Bottle: Dna Simulation

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson plan can be used to illustrate the principle of electrophoresis without the equipment. Paper chromatography can be used to separate dye just like electrophoresis will separate DNA. The lab also covers DNA analysis for an...
Activity
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Introduction to Dna Extractions

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is a lab exercise giving instructions for the extraction of DNA from several different starting materials.
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Genomic Dna Isolation: From Human Cheek Cells

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lab activity learners isolate genomic DNA from their own cheek cells. They then remove the DNA from those cheek cells through a laboratory process.
Interactive
American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Stuff to Do: Dna in a Blender

For Students 3rd - 8th
Follow these illustrated instructions to conduct a simple experiment in separating DNA from an onion!
Activity
Chemistry Collective

Chem Collective: Determining Reactants and Products in a Solution of Dna

For Students 9th - 10th
In this limiting reagents problem, students are given specific concentrations of DNA solutions and are asked to predict what products and reactants will remain after a specific volumes are mixed and reaction has occurred.
Activity
Chemistry Collective

Chem Collective: Predicting Dna Concentration

For Students 9th - 10th
In this limiting reagents problem, students are given specific concentrations of DNA solutions and are asked to predict what products and reactants will remain after a specific volumes are mixed and reaction has occurred.
Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs: Nova Labs: Protein Synthesis in the Cellular Factory

For Students 9th - 10th
Watch short animations, read informational text, and make hypotheses about different aspects of protein synthesis.
Unit Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Engineering Nature: Dna Visualization and Manipulation

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students are introduced to genetic techniques such as DNA electrophoresis and imaging technologies used for molecular and DNA structure visualization. In the field of molecular biology and genetics, biomedical engineering plays an...
Activity
Chemistry Collective

Chem Collective: Dna Dye Binding: Equilibrium and Buffer Solutions

For Students 9th - 10th
Students examine equilibrium and buffer solutions in a biological setting.
Interactive
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Dolan Dna Learning Center: Model Organisms

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about model organisms that research scientists use in lab testing.
Handout
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Hhmi: Bio Interactive: Leading Edge Bioinformatics

For Students 9th - 10th
Peter Skewes-Cox, and Dr. Graham Ruby, both in the DeRisi lab, explain state-of-the-art DNA sequencing and bioinformatic technologies. [6:36]
Interactive
Concord Consortium

Biologica: Web Lab, Mendel's Peas

For Students 9th - 10th
At this site see an online visual of meiosis, fertilization, and inheritance and play a game.
Lesson Plan
Bryn Mawr College

Serendip: From Gene to Protein Transcription and Translation

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Brief text summary of what students learn in the Dragon Genetics II lab along with links to download Student Handouts in PDF and Word formats, and Teacher Preparation Notes in PDF format. Students use paper models to learn transcription...
Activity
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench Showcase: Biotech

For Students 9th - 10th
Simulations of common biotechnology techniques performed in a laboratory setting. Learn how to complete these techniques and what task they are used for in the lab.
Handout
City University of New York

Bio Lab Module: Breaking the Genetic Code

For Students 9th - 10th
Try this interactive module from the Brooklyn College to help understand the genetic code and how changes in the code effect the final protein product.
Activity
The Franklin Institute

Inquiry Almanack: Bio Point

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover from a student's point of view what a "DNA fingerprint," is and how it is extracted.

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