In this lesson, students will create a three dimensional model of a cell and then cut it in two to make a two dimensional view.
This video is created by the Wake Forest Neuroscience Master Degree students about ADHD and it's effects.
What techniques are used to ?normalize? and glamorize a look to sell products to young people? How can media messages be analyzed and interpreted? How can media (including advertising) help shape perceptions of what girls and boys should look like, beginning at very young ages? How can these perceptions affect mental and physical health? The following activity will help students answer each of the questions as they learn how media advertisements affect the way teens see themselves and others.
This video resource was developed by Neuroscience students of Wake Forest University. This video includes an accompanying worksheet and helps students understand the anatomy and function of the ear.
In this lesson plan from the Utah Education Network, students will read a summarization of Van Leeuwenhoek's life and work and answer questions to check for understanding. The summarization and questions are included.
This lesson plan guides students in applying the specific principles of the Belmont Report to complex case studies involving human participants as research subjects.
In this lesson, students read accounts of recent gene therapy trials and consider the ethical implications in each and in continuing gene therapy trials as a whole. Using a bioethical decision-making model, students will state the ethical questions, list relevant facts, identify stakeholders, consider values and develop possible solutions to dilemmas that arise form gene therapy treatments.
This short video lesson demonstrates how cellulose, the naturally abundant tough walls of plant cells, might be the solution to scientists' search for a plentiful source of environmentally friendly fuels. Assessment and discussion questions, as well as links to additional resources, are included.
This resource is an interactive click & learn activity in which students visually explore some of the latest bioengineering creations from NIBIB-funded research, such as prosthetics and artificial kidneys.
This demonstration activity shows the effect of oil spills and illustrates a simple bioremediation strategy. It uses soap to mimic the effect of bioremediation by bacteria.
This comprehensive resource from Bio-Link is an alphabetical listing of careers related to biotechnology. Each listing includes a detailed job description, salary information, education and training requirements, and links to short videos that contain additional information and/or interviews with people in that career.
This forensics activity allows students to practice making and analyzing bite mark impressions using styrofoam plates and a variety of soft candy. Additional instructions can be accessed at http://sciencespot.net/Media/FrnsScience/bitemarks.ppt.
This forensics presentation gives an overview of bloodstain pattern analysis and includes instructions for four blood spatter labs . An accompanying student worksheet can be accessed at http://sciencespot.net/Media/FrnsScience/bloodspatter09wkst.pdf. An angle guide needed for the fourth lab can be accessed at http://sciencespot.net/Media/FrnsScience/bloodspatter_angleguide.pdf.
In this activity, students will fill out their own ?physical reactions to stress? inventory and graph the class results. Then they will work in pairs to learn more about the body mechanisms that cause physiological stress symptoms, such as a fast heartbeat, cold hands, and dry mouth, or even longer-lasting symptoms such as a headache and sleeplessness. Finally, students will discuss their own reactions to stress and understand that many physiological stress reactions are part of the body?s normal functioning. Students will also look at ways of dealing with stress.
This resource is a lab in which students are given a hypothetical DNA sequence for part of an enzyme. Using the universal genetic code, they will then determine the amino acid sequence coded for by the DNA. Differently shaped lego blocks will represent different amino acids. Students will construct the enzyme using legos.
This interactive computer game is a collection of five cases, with a range of difficulty levels, in which students use forensic science methods to solve crimes. The "For Educators" link contains related worksheets, quizzes, and additional classroom activities.
This task was developed by high school and postsecondary mathematics and health sciences educators, and validated by content experts in the Common Core State Standards in mathematics and the National Career Clusters Knowledge & Skills Statements. It was developed with the purpose of demonstrating how the Common Core and CTE Knowledge & Skills Statements can be integrated into classroom learning - and to provide classroom teachers with a truly authentic task for either mathematics or CTE courses.
This task was developed by high school and postsecondary mathematics and health sciences educators, and validated by content experts in the Common Core State Standards in mathematics and the National Career Clusters Knowledge & Skills Statements. It was developed with the purpose of demonstrating how the Common Core and CTE Knowledge & Skills Statements can be integrated into classroom learning - and to provide classroom teachers with a truly authentic task for either mathematics or CTE courses.
This task was developed by high school and postsecondary mathematics and health sciences educators, and validated by content experts in the Common Core State Standards in mathematics and the National Career Clusters Knowledge & Skills Statements. It was developed with the purpose of demonstrating how the Common Core and CTE Knowledge & Skills Statements can be integrated into classroom learning - and to provide classroom teachers with a truly authentic task for either mathematics or CTE courses.
This task was developed by high school and postsecondary mathematics and health sciences educators, and validated by content experts in the Common Core State Standards in mathematics and the National Career Clusters Knowledge & Skills Statements. It was developed with the purpose of demonstrating how the Common Core and CTE Knowledge & Skills Statements can be integrated into classroom learning - and to provide classroom teachers with a truly authentic task for either mathematics or CTE courses.