uses animations to answer six questions: What is DNA? What are genes? What are chromosomes? What is a protein? What is heredity? What is a trait?
In this Science Update, from Science NetLinks, you'll hear about how plants are gradually moving to higher altitudes to escape global warming. Science Updates are audio interviews with scientists and are accompanied by a set of questions as well as links to related Science NetLinks lessons and other related resources.
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focuses on research and understanding of monarch butterflies. Learn about their growth, natural enemies, interactions with milkweed, migration, population dynamics, and more.
features animations and activities for learning about DNA, cells, and other topics in genetics and bioscience. Build a DNA molecule. Transcribe and translate a gene. See why a firefly's tail glows. Use DNA evidence to solve a mystery. Extract DNA from wheat germ and see real DNA. Find out how genetics are being used to save endangered species. Learn about stem cells, addiction, gene therapy, cloning, and genetically modified food.
offers photos, descriptions, and other information documenting the diversity of the world's organisms. Learn about animals, arthropoda, eukaryotes, flowering plants, fungi, and terrestrial vertebrates. Explore genetic relationships among organisms.
presents 40 photos of grizzlies and black bears fishing, traveling with their cubs, and in various other activities and habitats.
(9–12), students think about why hammerheads have “hammers,” read and analyze what scientists think about this question and then pretend to be researchers investigating the question further.
(6–8) help students learn about life in the deep, dark ocean below 3,300 feet. Here, 90 percent of the creatures produce their own light in a chemical process called “bioluminescence.” In this lesson, students learn about bioluminescent creatures and the underwater world in which they live.
This unit incorporates science, social studies and mathematics standards by using current polar bear research as an integrating context for learning. In this investigation, students will use the data collected from an actual research project to make a decision regarding ecotourism policies for the town of Churchill, Manitoba, Canada, "The Polar Bear Capital of the World."
The NHGRI recently released a free, online multimedia education kit for students, teachers, and anyone else who's interested. View a video documentary about the Human Genome Project, explore animated molecules and cells, and browse an interactive timeline, among other things. You can also order a free CD-ROM version of the kit at this site.
When studying human biology, nothing gets more basic than human DNA. Students take part in the scientific study of a single strand of DNA. What are the basic components of human DNA? And how are those components passed from one generation to the next? In this interactive, students follow the process used by scientists to decipher a cell's genetic code. Students learn how scientists identify chromosome "markers" and then compare the methods used in tracing those markers through maternal and paternal ancestry.
Project FeederWatch can help engage children in the excitement of nature study and the wonder of scientific investigation by
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