Students will be working with a virtual lab partner, Maxine, with the goal being to demonstrate proper lab safety techniques throughout a variety of scenarios.

Students read about the metric system and see pictures explaining the information. There are interactive questions at the conclusion of the reading.

Daniel Kraft offers a fast-paced look at the next few years of innovations in medicine, powered by new tools, tests and apps that bring diagnostic information right to the patient's bedside. Assessment questions and links to additional resources are included.

This resource is a worksheet to accompany the Mass Presentation. Students will review basic units of mass and how to measure mass using the triple beam balance.

Students will learn about different types of microbes and how to treat and prevent the diseases they cause. They will choose between bacteria, virus, prion or parasite.

This resource is a collection of information on different microbes. Students can choose a microbe and learn how it is contracted and how it can be avoided.

In this interactive learning object, students will work side-by-side with a virtual instructor to review the basics of microscopy and perform a guided practice experiment, practice using the microscope at their own pace, and complete an assignment from their virtual instructor successfully to receive a certificate.

To complete this worksheet, students visit a series of web sites where they explore the history of the microscope and identify objects viewed at different magnifications.

Students will model the atomic structure of common elements found in soils, determine an atom's valence electrons, draw Lewis electron dot diagrams, and discuss the basic principles of element bonding.

With this resource, NOVA chronicles the history of the Human Genome Project. This two-hour special, hosted by ABC "Nightline" correspondent Robert Krulwich, chronicles the fiercely competitive race to capture one of the biggest scientific prizes ever: the complete letter-by-letter sequence of genetic information that defines human life—the human genome. NOVA: Cracking the Code of Life tells the story of the success of the Human Genome Project and its profound implications for medicine and human health.

I bribed my family with brownies to participate in an educational game night! In this video, we play a farm-themed word association game called Expression Connections taken from the Food, Land, and People curriculum. Try it out with your own family or classroom, and discover how many connections exist between you and the food that you eat!

Correlations to NC Essential Standards: Depends on how the lesson is adapted, but there is a lot of flexibility in this activity to be adapted to many standards in Science, Language Arts, and Social Studies.

This short video lesson examines the parts of a cell using the model of a factory run by robots. Assessment and discussion questions, as well as links to additional resources, are included.

This interactive animation goes through the five main steps in the process of crop genetic engineering: extracting DNA, cloning a single gene, designing the gene, transformation, and backcross breeding.

Students begin gathering their own behavioral, medical and genetic information and prepare a mock cheek swab DNA sample. Next, students consider using their information to participate in a number of simulated research projects. This leads to a discussion about how the amount of time, degree of involvement level of risk and reasons for participation can vary for different types of research studies.

Students model how genes are passed from parents to offspring using different shaped pasta pieces.

In this lesson students will investigate the physical properties of matter, learn 4 important physical properties of soil commonly tested in agriculture production and rediscover the 3 components of soil used for the USDA soil classification system.

This interactive website asks students to match scientists to diseases they helped prevent through vaccine development.

This lesson is designed as a basic introduction into botany, and understanding the parts and functions of plants. After completion of this lesson students will have identified the main parts of plants including: roots, stems, leaves, flowers, and fruit - as well as their respective functions. This lesson is geared for a 90 minute block-schedule However, activities can and should be modified to fit within other instructional periods.

This lesson is part 2 in a 6 part unit on Biotechnology use in agriculture. It sets the foundation for the culminating project by teaching students about germination and the factors that effect germination. Students will be introduced to the factors that effect germination and then perform an experiment that allows them to evaluate germination rates.