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How Restriction Enzymes, Probes, and RFLP's Work
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Science, Life SciencesThis Access Excellence activity is a simulation that uses letters and words to model the action of restriction nucleases on DNA ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0A Constructivist Version of the Snail & Elodea Lab
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Life Sciences, Science, Ecology & EcosystemsIn this Access Excellence activity, students work with snails and sprigs of Elodea to test hypotheses about whether or not each ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Contraction In Action
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Life Sciences, Health & Physical Education, Health Education, Science, Growth, Development & AgingThis Access Excellence activity is designed to help students visualize not only the structure of a sarcomere, but the actual phy...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Determination of Phylogenetic Relationships Using Restriction Analysis
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Science, Life SciencesIn this Access Excellence activity, teams of students work with samples of mitochondrial DNA from several strains of mice. They ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0DNA Fingerprinting for High School Biology
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Mathematics, Life Sciences, Calculus, ScienceIn this Access Excellence activity, students digest (cut) a plasmid DNA sample with two different restriction enzymes, load samp...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0DNA Profile Analysis
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Science, Life SciencesIn this Access Excellence activity, students collect and analyze their own DNA using agarose gel electrophoresis. They focus on ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Ecology and Biome Unit
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Life Sciences, Science, Earth & Space Science, Ecology & EcosystemsIn this Access Excellence activity, students learn about biomes, communities, and human ecology. They research various aspects o...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Effects of Environment on Memory
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Health & Physical Education, History-Social Science, Growth, Development & Aging, Life Sciences and 4 additional..In this Access Excellence activity, students work to determine the effects of a variety of environmental factors on a person s a...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Enzyme Action
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Science, Life SciencesIn this Access Excellence activity, students work with models of substrates and of enzymes. They learn how enzymes work and whet...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Human Evolution: Interpreting Evidence
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Life Sciences, Science, History-Social Science, ElectivesThis resource, from the Boston Museum of Science, focuses on human evolution. Users can learn how scientists interpret the fossi...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Modeling Mendel's Pea Experiment
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Science, Life SciencesIn this Access Excellence activity, students discover for themselves what Mendel uncovered in his famous pea experiments. Real g...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Photosynthetic Pictures Are Worth More Than a Thousand Words
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Visual Arts, Life Sciences, Types of Media, Visual Arts & Performing Arts, ScienceIn this Access Excellence activity, students observe and examine how carbon dioxide, water, and light produce glucose/starch thr...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Prairie Restoration and Prairie Ecology
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Life Sciences, Science, Ecology & EcosystemsIn this Access Excellence project, students learn about prairie ecosystems. They learn the answers to questions regarding the va...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Sampling Variation in a Natural Population
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Mathematics, Calculus, Life Sciences, Science, Ecology & EcosystemsIn this Access Excellence activity, students sample the phenotypic variation within a natural population of a single species. Up...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0There's Always Room for Jell-o
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Science, Life SciencesIn this Access Excellence activity, students investigate the effect of some common detergents on jell-o. They use a jell-o fille...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Acid Rain Research
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Life Sciences, Chemistry, Science, Earth & Space Science, Ecology & EcosystemsIn this Access Excellence activity, students study acid rain. They design an experiment, identify research study areas, and desi...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Biodiversity Survey - A Unit Study
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Mathematics, Life Sciences, Science, Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability, Ecology & EcosystemsIn this Access Excellence activity, students carry out a terrestrial biodiversity survey to determine the impact of humans upon ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Cell Respiration -- A Computer Based Laboratory
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Mathematics, Life Sciences, Calculus, ScienceIn this Access Excellence activity, students monitor cell respiration in yeast. The results are graphed as they are collected gi...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0DNA Biotechnology
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Science, Life SciencesIn these Access Excellence activities, students simulate restriction enzyme activity and gel electrophoresis then complete two r...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0DNA Dry Lab
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Science, Life SciencesIn this Access Excellence activity, students learn how the order of nucleotides in DNA determines the order of amino acids in pr...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0