Students use a simulator to better understand how the positions and motions of the Earth and moon create seasons.
In this activity, students investigate local biodiversity by placing a transect line outside on the school campus.
In this activity, students make a model watershed and "rain" over the model. In the process, they will learn how water moves in a watershed and why it is important to keep a watershed healthy.
This interactive animation goes through the steps in gene cloning, part of the process of crop genetic engineering.
This interactive allows the user to explore Kepler's first law.
This interactive allows students to explore Kepler's 2nd law, using the speed of the planets.
Students use a simulator to better understand the phases of the moon as well as the geometry giving rise to them.
The NAAP Motions of the Sun Lab reviews some of the material from the Basic Coordinates and Seasons Lab and The Rotating Sky Lab and adds information to put all the pieces together for a more complete description of the motions of the sun. Computation of meridional altitude and stellar visibility are also introduced.
This simulation explores the sun/Earth connection. It allows variables to be manipulated such as time of year, latitude, angle, annalema, and declination, in teaching seasons.
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.
This interactive helps students practice identifying Terrestrial and Jovian planets.
This interactive helps students practice ordering the planets.
This interactive animation shows the transcription process of RNA within the plant cell nucleus, followed by the movement of the single stranded RNA out of the nucleus where it is translated into proteins.
This interactive helps students understand the relative scale of the universe.
In this lesson, students will become better informed about the safety of genetically engineered products and will investigate public opinion about these products. Students will learn the basic facts and issues related to crop biotechnology and food safety and develop a survey to measure the knowledge and opinions of the public about this issue.
This interactive animation shows the differences between natural plant breeding and plant breeding using biotechnology. The end result is a plant with the desired gene lacking undesired genes.
In this video students will visit a wheat field to learn about plant breeding, inheritance and the use of Punnett Squares for making predictions.
In this interactive game, the student takes on the role of a genetic engineer to create genetically modified foods. Students must correctly order the steps to genetically engineer a plant by clicking and dragging icons into the correct boxes. When all of the steps are in correct order, students can access a detailed summary of the entire genetic engineering process for that plant.