Science Topics

Use science topic words to find web sites with lesson plans and activities.

Biotechnology

1. Gene stories: the basics of being
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): 9 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 027766
   This Internet site, part of the BBC Internet services, provides content information and online activities for students to learn about genetics. Nine main sections cover topics such as how genes make individuals unique, how genetics can piece together ancient history, and how our future will be changed with new breakthroughs in genetics.
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2. Genetic Science Learning Center
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): 5 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 016488
   This Internet site, maintained by the University of Utah's Genetic Science Learning Center, provides information on basic genetics, genetic disorders, and genetics in society. Current features include special sections devoted to cloning and the truths and myths of biological warfare.
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3. BioInteractive virtual labs
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): 9 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 028271
   This web site, produced by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, contains interactive virtual laboratory exercises that demonstrate biomedical skills and procedures. Available exercises include Bacterial Identification, Cardiology, Neurophysiology, and Immunology.
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4. Access Excellence mystery spot
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2001 Grade(s): 9 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 019799
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained for high school biology students by Access Excellence, offers interactive, online scientific mysteries designed to encourage student problem-solving and inquiry. In addition to forensic science, topics include oxygen consumption during a space mission and a series of strange illnesses that affect the crew of a racing ship.
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5. Classrooms of the 21st century
   Featured in ENC Focus   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2002 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 002729
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site provides articles on curricula and lessons related to life and health science. The site is divided into three main areas: teaching and learning, technology, and science education reform.
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6. DNA for dinner?
   Featured in ENC Focus   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 1999 Grade(s): 9 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 016070
   This Internet site, developed for grades 9 through 12, is intended as a webquest or structured activity that introduces students to the practical mechanics and societal implications of the genetic engineering of plants grown for human consumption. The site encourages students to learn about public policy and shows how ordinary citizens can become part of the decision making process for issues that are important to them.
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7. Hello Dolly, a web quest
   Featured in ENC Focus   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 1998 Grade(s): 11 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 011210
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site offers an inquiry-oriented activity that helps students learn about the implications of cloning. The Web site describes a scenario in which the United States House Of Representatives is assembling a group of specialists to investigate the wide spread implications of cloning on the social, economic, and political fabric of American society.
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8. Human genetic variation
   Date: 2002 Grade(s): 9 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 028424
   This Internet site, maintained by the National Human Genome Research Institute (part of the National Institutes of Health), provides a curriculum supplement for students in grades 9-12 to learn about genetic variation and biomedical research. The supplement includes five downloadable inquiry-based activities along with a teacher guide.
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9. Connecticut's BioBus: a BioScience experience on wheels
   Date: 2001 Grade(s): 3 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 027105
   This Internet site describes the Connecticut BioBus project and provides downloadable biotechnology activities for grades 3-12. The Connecticut BioBus project, launched on September 5, 2001, created a fully-equipped, state-of-the-art, mobile biotechnology laboratory to enrich the middle and high school curricula of Connecticut schools.
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10. Snapshots of science and medicine
    Date: 2000 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 000889
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, developed for grade K to 12 students and teachers by the National Institutes of Health, provides information about biomedical research technologies and the people involved in the biomedical enterprise with the hope that all readers will get a better sense of how science, medicine and new technologies affect life on a daily basis. In the section People Doing Science, users can read about the people involved in the biomedical sciences: researchers, artists, ethicists, administrators, doctors, and others.
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11. BIOTECH Project: mobile biotechnology for the classroom
    Date: 2000 Grade(s): 10 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 017288
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site is intended to help Arizona high school teachers use hands-on exercises to teach modern biotechnology in the classroom. The site provides advanced technical knowledge and includes full descriptions of all materials and techniques needed to perform several advanced modern procedures such as DNA fingerprinting, manipulation of bacterial genes and the extraction of DNA from onions or kiwi fruit.
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12. The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
    Date: 1997 Grade(s): 5 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 010720
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site provides information on the various programs of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Fund (WWNFF) and access to the activities developed by classroom teachers from its yearly workshops. The workshops cover the topics of biology, chemistry, mathematics, and world history.
    (For more details, see ENC Record.)