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Geography Awareness Week 2000: Oceans
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, Geography, Ecology & Ecosystems, Life Sciences and 2 additional..This page from National Geographic was created as a resource for Geography Awareness Week 2000, which is based on the theme of c...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Protein Synthesis: At the Ribosome
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Life Sciences, ScienceThis tool, created by Science NetLinks, presents a brief animation that demonstrates the process by which messenger RNA (mRNA) i...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Genetically Modified Bacteria Produce Living Photographs
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, Types of Media, Visual Arts & Performing Arts, Visual Arts and 3 additional..In this National Geographic News article, read about a method to create photographs with E. coli bacteria. This is an early succ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0DNA from the Beginning
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Life Sciences, ScienceDNA from the Beginning, from the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, features an animated primer on the basics of DNA, genes and here...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0What's the Hammer For?
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, Geography, Life Sciences, ScienceThis lesson, from Xpeditions, asks students to consider the possible reasons why hammerheads have "hammers" and to read and anal...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0The Best Hope for Northern Right Whales
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, Geography, Ecology & Ecosystems, Life Sciences, ScienceIn this lesson, from Xpeditions, students research current and proposed methods of assisting the recovery of northern right whal...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Coral Bleaching: Making Our Oceans Whiter
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: History-Social Science, Geography, Life Sciences, ScienceIn this lesson from Xpeditions, students learn what coral reefs are and about the different types of reefs, study the ecology su...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Human Impacts in the African Rainforest: What We Can Do
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, Geography, Ecology & Ecosystems, ScienceThis lesson, from Xpeditions, asks students to examine the human impacts that conservationist Michael Fay noticed on his Congo T...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Cellular Metabolism
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: Health & Physical Education, Growth, Development & Aging, Life Sciences, Science, Health EducationThis page, from Biology in Motion, features a one-page cartoon with an explanation of how enzymes work in the body. The brief ex...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Genetic Science Learning Center
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Health & Physical Education, Life Sciences, Science, Health Education, Personal and Community HealthThis site, offered by the University of Utah, contains extensive information on genetics (including genetic disorders, testing, ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Monomer and Polymer Chemistry
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Chemistry, Life Sciences, ScienceIn this Access Excellence activity, students come to understand monomer/polymer chemistry of starches and sugars. They test solu...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Riddle of the Bones
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, Electives, Life Sciences, ScienceThis resource, from PBS, features an interactive presentation about our early human ancestors. The focus is on a handful of foss...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Which Embryo Is Human?
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Life Sciences, ScienceThis Exploratorium resource features DNA and developing embryos. The topic is introduced by having users guess which of five emb...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0How to Extract DNA from Anything Living
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Health & Physical Education, Growth, Development & Aging, Life Sciences, Science, Health EducationThis experiment for students in grades 9-12 is from the Genetic Science Learning Center. How to Extract DNA From Anything Livi...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Proteome
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Life Sciences, Science, Health EducationIn this Science Update, from science NetLinks, you'll hear about the difficulties of the task of determining which genes make wh...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Determination of Phylogenetic Relationships Using Restriction Analysis
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Life Sciences, ScienceIn this Access Excellence activity, teams of students work with samples of mitochondrial DNA from several strains of mice. They ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Primitive Ape-Man
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Life Sciences, ScienceIn this Science Update, from Science NetLinks, you'll hear about a set of 4-million-year-old fossils in Africa that has filled i...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Monkeyflower Mutation Provides Evolution Insight
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, Geography, Life Sciences, Science, American DemocracyIn this National Geographic News article, read about a study that shows that a single genetic mutation can trigger a color chang...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Whale Birth Decline Tied to Global Warming, Study Says
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, Geography, Ecology & Ecosystems, Life Sciences and 2 additional..In this National Geographic News article, read about how rising sea-surface temperatures may be harming the reproductive success...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0"Chips" Off the Old Block?
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Life Sciences, ScienceIn this Access Excellence activity, students learn about genetic mutations using the analogy of cookie recipes to that of DNA r...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0