Constructing a Protein Sentence

Learners explore DNA structure using materials such as Twizzlers, small colored gumdrops and/or toothpicks.

Try this quiz about RNA's role in protein synthesis.

Young scholars describe DNA and the roles in which engineers are involved with the human body.  In this DNA lesson students participate in a class demonstration. 

As a class, young scholars work through an example showing how DNA provides the "recipe" for making our body proteins. They see how the pattern of nucleotide bases (adenine, thymine, guanine, cytosine) forms the double helix ladder shape...

Study proteins and amino acids in the science of biology including how they are made using DNA, transcription, and translation and different types of proteins on this site.

Try this quiz about RNA and the origin of life.

Fourth graders, using candy, build models of DNA replication, RNA transcription, and tRNA translation.

For this science related worksheet, students study, locate and answer ten multiple choice questions dealing with protein synthesis.

Answers the questions what makes DNA, where is it found, what does it look like, and how does it work.

Fourth graders walk through the process of transcription and translation to demonstrate and explain protein synthesis. They utilize a worksheet imbedded in this plan to guide their role play.