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Genetics

1. Teacher's domain: multimedia resources for the classroom and professional development
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 026871
   This Internet site features a multimedia library for K-12 teachers and students. It contains classroom-ready resources and multimedia lesson plans for high school and middle school life science units.
   (For more details, see ENC Record.)
   
   
2. 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.
   (For more details, see ENC Record.)
   
   
3. 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.
   (For more details, see ENC Record.)
   
   
4. The gene school
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): 10 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 013955
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained by Think Quest, contains information for beginning students in genetics. It is divided into three content areas, which include general information, applications, and interactions.
   (For more details, see ENC Record.)
   
   
5. The National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science case collection
   Featured in ENC Focus   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2001 Grade(s): 9 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 019214
   This Internet site, maintained by the National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science, offers a collection of case studies for use in undergraduate science classrooms. Designed to humanize science and to illustrate scientific methodology and values, the cases also develop students' skills in group learning, speaking, and critical thinking.
   (For more details, see ENC Record.)
   
   
6. Scientific American Frontiers
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 1998 Grade(s): 7 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 012692
   This Internet site, maintained by the Public Broadcasting System (PBS), is the companion web site to SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN FRONTIERS, a series of science specials hosted by Alan Alda. Each hour-long episode introduces a variety of science stories based on a single theme.
   (For more details, see ENC Record.)
   
   
7. BioInteractive
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2000 Grade(s): 6 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 018111
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained by the Howard Hughes Institute, contains interactive learning modules with virtual labs, animated clips, and virtual museums. The virtual labs allow students to perform and analyze simulations of cardiology tests, identification of bacterial species based upon DNA analysis, and exploration of the leech nervous system.
   (For more details, see ENC Record.)
   
   
8. 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.
   (For more details, see ENC Record.)
   
   
9. BioRAP, Biological Research for Animals and People
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 1996 Grade(s): 10 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 012764
   This Internet site presents BioRAP (Biological Research for Animals and People), an online newsletter on science and health. Each issue addresses a health related topic and is accompanied by a teacher's guide and resources.
   (For more details, see ENC Record.)
   
   
10. GENE: Kansas State University's Genetic Education Network
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1996 Grade(s): 11 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 001881
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site is designed by the Genetic Education Network (GENE) project to promote collaborations between teachers and a group of research geneticists at Kansas State University to adapt several genetics research organisms and modern laboratory techniques for use in the classroom. In addition to developing useful strains and techniques, they have developed effective strategies for using them to teach a wide variety of concepts.
    (For more details, see ENC Record.)
    
    
11. Summer Research Program for science teachers
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1996 Grade(s): 9 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 002339
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained by Columbia University, resulted from the universitys Summer Research Program, which provides opportunities for New York City secondary school science teachers to participate in scientific research. The sustained, hands-on experience they gain from the program allows participants to better understand the practice of science and to transmit their improved understanding to students and fellow teachers.
    (For more details, see ENC Record.)
    
    
12. Florida panthers investigation: an examination of evolution and conservation biology
    Date: 2003 Grade(s): 9 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 029744
    In this Internet site, students investigate how to protect an endangered population of Florida panthers. Designed as part of a unit on evolutionary biology, the site was designed to reinforce students' understanding of ecology, natural selection, and evolution.
    (For more details, see ENC Record.)
    
    
13. Educational resources: genetics education for students, teachers and the general public
    Date: 2003 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 028855
    This Internet site, maintained by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), offers a variety of K-12 educational resources for students and teachers to explore the field of genetics and the Human Genome Project. The site offers genetics education modules that discuss the history, facts, and genetic terminology of the Human Genome Project, as well as the ethical and social issues that surround this research.
    (For more details, see ENC Record.)
    
    
14. 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.
    (For more details, see ENC Record.)
    
    
15. Life science, parts 1 and 2
    Date: 2003 Grade(s): 6 - 12 Cost: $4.00 ENC#: 025940
    This biology tutorial is available on-line by subscription. Part 1 covers the topics of energy, reproduction, and genetics.
    (For more details, see ENC Record.)
    
    
16. Virtual courseware for Earth and environmental sciences
    Date: 2002 Grade(s): 8 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 027853
    This web site, established by California State University, provides interactive online activities and background information on Earth science and environmental science topics. Topics include: earthquakes, geologic dating, rivers, and genetics.
    (For more details, see ENC Record.)
    
    
17. Mendel's experiments: student manual for Mendel's peas
    Date: 2002 Grade(s): 6 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 100884
    These are the student instructions for the Mendel's Peas genetics web lab in which students experiment with pea plants to learn how traits are inherited. This resource tells students what they will do in each section of the lab and how to do it (for example, when to click where).
    (For more details, see ENC Record.)
    
    
18. Mendel's peas
    Date: 2002 Grade(s): 6 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 100824
    This is the entry page for a genetics web lab in which middle and high school students experiment virtually with pea plants to learn how traits are inherited. The page provides access to the lab itself and to the directory of labs for the entire site.
    (For more details, see ENC Record.)
    
    
19. Mendel's experiments: student manual for Mendel's peas
    Date: 2002 Grade(s): 6 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 100883
    These are the student instructions for the Mendel's Peas genetics web lab in which students experiment with pea plants to learn how traits are inherited. This resource tells students what they will do in each section of the lab and how to do it (for example, when to click where).
    (For more details, see ENC Record.)
    
    
20. Mendel's experiments
    Date: 2002 Grade(s): 6 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 100794
    In this web lab, Gregor Mendel directs students through interactive virtual experiments. Students experiment with pea plants to discover how the seven pairs of traits that Mendel studied are inherited.
    (For more details, see ENC Record.)