UWRF Biotechnology Workshop - Classroom Activities Classroom activities. Food Science; Genetics and DNA Analysis; Proteins, This unit is designed to teach students about the electrophoresis process, http://www.uwrf.edu/biotech/workshop/activity.htm
Extractions: Biotechnology Classroom Activities These activities were assembled by teachers participating in summer Biotechnology workshops at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, 1991-1996. They were designed to be used in the participants' classes, but we hope that others will find them useful. The activities are intended to be as classroom-ready as possible, including sources of materials and information about content background, timing, and assessment. We are in the process of field testing the activities, so that they can be modified or corrected if necessary. The activities are listed below. Those with an HTML and/or PDF icon can be downloaded from this page. We are converting the remaining activities as quickly as we can. Fermentation in the Food Industry: An Introduction to Biotechnology HTML PDF This activity will introduce the students to fermentation as well as provide hands on experience with a variety of food fermentation processes. In this exercise, students will study fermentation as a natural biological process and also its implicatio ns in the food and agricultural industries. Group projects incorporate an inquiry based lab, personal journal, and class presentation of research.
Teaching Evolution In School Science Classes. ERIC Digest. selection is dependent on differences (in genetic traits and in breeding The NCSE sponsors several activities to support the teaching of evolution. http://www.ericdigests.org/1998-1/evolution.htm
Extractions: Source: ERIC Clearinghouse for Science Mathematics and Environmental Education Columbus OH. Teaching Evolution in School Science Classes. ERIC Digest. "Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution." T. Dobzhansky. What seemed like a provocative statement twenty years ago has become firmly established as a unifying idea in biology education. Speaking at a convention of the National Association of Biology Teachers, Dobzhansky (1973) pointed out the remarkable diversity of life and the striking unity of life, both made more intelligible by the theory of evolution. He went on to say: "Seen in the light of evolution, biology is, perhaps, intellectually the most satisfying and inspiring science. Without that light it becomes a pile of sundry facts-some of them interesting or curious but making no meaningful picture as a whole." Evolution was also identified as the unifying theme of biology by the American Society of Zoologists (Moore, 1984); the Society's project to improve teaching at the college level first focused on evolutionary biology.
UCHSC Medical Scientist Training Program and focus for human and medical genetic activities at the University of In addition to an active teaching program for graduate, medical, dental, http://www.uchsc.edu/sm/mstp/gradprograms.html
Extractions: Denver Campus: Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics Cell and Developmental Biology Human Genetics Immunology ... Physiology and Biophysics The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry is internationally recognized for its research and education. As part of a commitment to continuing this tradition of excellence the department provides a graduate program that integrates opportunities for cutting-edge creative research and study across of wide range of areas including analytical, atmospheric, biochemistry, biophysical, chemical physics, environmental, inorganic, and physical chemistry. Graduate students enjoy extensive scientific collaboration with chemistry and biochemistry faculty and with other departments, such as Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, and Physics, and with research institutes and agencies such as the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), Joint Institutes of Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA), and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Program Website:
Genetic Counselor Principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and Engage in research activities related to the field of medical genetics and http://jobs.state.va.us/careerguides/GeneticCounselor.htm
Extractions: SOC Code: 21-1019 Pay Band(s): 3, 4 and 5 (Salary Structure) Standard Occupational Description: There is no standard occupational description for the occupation of Genetic Counselor as used by the Commonwealth. This occupation would be included in the Counselors, All Others. This group is comprised of many different types of counseling occupations with a wide range of characteristics Commonwealth of Virginia Description : Counsel and provide information and support to families who have members with birth defects or genetic disorders and to families who may be at risk for a variety of inherited conditions. Genetic counselors are health professionals with specialized graduate degrees and experience in the areas of medical genetics and counseling. Genetic counselors usually work as members of a health care team providing information and support to individuals and/or families with genetic conditions. Genetic Counselor positions in the Commonwealth are assigned to the following Roles in the Counseling Services Career Group Counselor I Counselor II Counselor Manager While Genetic Counselor within the Commonwealth are all located within the Counseling Services Career Group, individuals may want to pursue other opportunities within the Commonwealth depending upon individual training, education, knowledge, skills, abilities, and interests.
Extractions: It is important to consider the accuracy and bias of any material on these topics (either in print or on the Web). Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology - General The Australian Biotechnical Association - Educational Leaflets - What is biotechnology?, What is genetic engineering?, Transgenic animals and plants, Biotechnology and food and more
TEACHING GREEN I ll suggest seasonal activities that can help our children get closer to She is currently working on the book Teaching the Green which will be an at http://www.ecomall.com/greenshopping/teach.htm
Extractions: T ips for teachers, parents and kids on how to live "greener" everyday lives. Contact me at Teachgreen@aol.com Hi! Thanks for stopping by. I will answer your questions on how to bring environmental studies into the classroom, how to deepen our environmental awareness and how to live more "green". I'll suggest seasonal activities that can help our children get closer to nature and give suggestions on how to encourage them to be loving caretakers of our great planet earth. I want to encourage our children (and ourselves) to fall in love with nature. When you love something, you will take care of it. I look forward to hearing from teachers and parents about environmental projects that you've done that have been successful. E-mail me at Teachgreen@AOL.com and I'll share with others what you are doing. Also, I want to hear from Kids! E-mail your poems and stories about nature, ecology and our great Planet Earth, to Teachgreen@aol.com and I will share your feelings with other kids in the Earth Patrol Kids section at the end of this site. In my last column , I addressed the reasons why we should consider choosing organic foods. Following is an article in which I asked this question of Meryl Streep.
Nov 24, 1999 MGH Researchers First To Identify Genetic Malfunction This is a true genetic abnormality we can associate with type 1 diabetes Faustman and Hayashi found that key activities of NFkB are reduced in the NOD http://www.massgeneral.org/pubaffairs/releases/112499diabetes.htm
Extractions: to new preventive or therapeutic approaches November 24, 1999 — A research study from the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) has identified a gene malfunction that appears to be central to the development of type 1 diabetes. The study in a classic animal model of type 1 diabetes found that a gene required to help teach the immune system to recognize so-called "self" proteins is somehow inactivated, even though its sequence is not mutated. The scientists also found that the inactivation of this gene called has a profound impact on another key protein called nuclear factor kappa-B (NF- k B), a major controller of several immune system activities. Finding ways to correct or circumvent the malfunction identified in this study may lead to ways of preventing or stopping the autoimmune reaction at the heart of type 1 diabetes. "This is a true genetic abnormality we can associate with type 1 diabetes," says Denise Faustman, MD, PhD, of the MGH Diabetes Unit, who led the study appearing in the December issue of Molecular and Cellular Biology . "While
Jean Piaget's Genetic Epistemology genetic Epistemology. And the Teaching of. Elementary Mathematics They should not be directly told to count, but events and activities should be http://www.math.ufl.edu/dept_news_events/long/essays/baskovich.html
Extractions: J. Piaget's Genetic Epistemology And the Teaching of Elementary Mathematics As Analyzed by Brett W. Baskovich Abstract: Generally, science is the analysis and understanding of the way certain events occur and can be controlled. Epistemology examines our ability to make these analyses, deducing the nature, limits and flaws of human reasoning. The science of genetic epistemology studies the advancement of this ability throughout a person's life, for our knowledge and reasoning abilities are dynamic, and when their workings are properly understood, they are more easily improved. It is common knowledge that intelligence increases with age. Additional experiences and extended cognitive development lead to more sophisticated and accurate analyses of the world [6]. But the mechanics and extent of this change are not common knowledge. And before the studies of Jean Piaget (1896-1980), they were hardly even considered. Of course, this development occurs whatever the environment of a person, but the speed and extent of development can be maximized through application of these studies [4]. In his books, Piaget defines several stages through which a child passes, each new stage representing an improvement in reasoning. He provides examples of experiments and questions applied to different age groups that clearly display the changes, and describes the implications. Literature and new teaching methods have resulted from his works. What follows shall be a brief and general description of the stages important to psychological and mathematical development and some of the consequences of this knowledge.
Teaching Resource Page Activities Teaching Resources. Teacher Resource Page activities Wild horses in other areas have different unique genetic makeups. Some common breeds are listed http://www.pbs.org/wildhorses/wh_teaching/wh_teaching.html
Extractions: Home of the Free and the Wild Mustangs represent the spirit of the Old West. Wild and free, they evoke images of vast rolling prairies, untamed hills and mountains, and hidden canyons. Though the ancestors of horses once roamed across North America, they died out on this continent thousands of years ago. The horse returned to the Americas with the invasion of Spanish explorers in the 16th century. Some of those animals escaped from, or were freed by, their masters, reproduced in the wild, and became the foundation for the herds of mustangs that still roam the American West today. Over the centuries, more horses have joined these wild bands. One of the enduring romances of the Old West is the tale of the spiritual bond between mythic heroes and the wild horses they tamed. At the turn of the century, there were possibly as many as 2 million wild horses. But the Old West is no more. Roads, cities, ranches, farms, people and progress have covered much of the mustang's range, and the remaining horses are scattered throughout publicly-owned lands, or on a few private preserves in the West. The transition has been cruel and bloody. Earlier in this century, wild horses were hunted down and shipped to slaughterhouses. With the government's blessing, mustangers used means fair and foul to destroy these icons of the past.
Activities Of The Unit Teaching, training and manpower development activities been devoted to studying and developing applications of neural networks and genetic algorithms. http://www.isical.ac.in/~cvpr/activities.html
Extractions: Research External Projects Industrial collaboration and technical assistance Teaching, training and manpower development activities ... Post-Graduate Research The major areas of on-going research in the Unit include Optical Character Recognition, Natural Language Processing, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing and Soft Computing tools. The CVPR unit is proud of a pioneering development of an Optical Character Recognition OCR ) system for the combined script recognition of Bangla and Devnagari (Hindi), the most popular scripts of the Indian sub-continent. The system performs document tilt correction, script line, word and character segmentation, character recognition and finally, error correction. Its performance has been found to be about 98%. Work on Oriya OCR and OCR for Bangla hand-written character recognition is in progress. A major area of interest of this unit is the general problem of digital document analysis. Novel algorithms for skew estimation and correction have been developed. A system for the automatic detection and processing of mathematical expressions from documents is being designed. The issues of automatic layout analysis of both printed and handwritten documents involving segmentation, information and feature extraction, data compression, processing and understanding line drawings are under study while a system for the automatic extraction of meta-information from document images has already been developed. A Bangla programming interface to the Turbo-C compiler has been implemented which has been found to work well for programs of moderate complexity. Another work in progress is language data compression, both from hypertext and images of documents in Indian scripts.
Education And Genetics: Human Genome Project Information Human Genome Project and genetic publications, videos, posters, teaching aids, genetics activities, and a list of reviewed genetics teaching text with http://genome.gsc.riken.go.jp/hgmis/education/education.html
Helix Bioinformatics Modeling and simulation of genetic regulatory networks Most members of the HELIX research group are involved in teaching activities. http://www-helix.inrialpes.fr/rubrique21.html
Extractions: Context and situation Research activities Partnerships Teaching activities ... Training and job opportunities The Helix research group Teaching activities Most members of the HELIX research group are involved in teaching activities. Continuing education in bioinformatics The bioinformatics optional course of the master of computer science at university Joseph Fourier
Access Excellence @ The National Health Museum Daily activities Help with Weight Control Walking to the car, climbing a few stairs or making extra trips to the fax machine. http://www.accessexcellence.org/
Extractions: Test Vaccines Protect Macaques Against Marburg, Ebola - A pair of test vaccines has proven to be effective at protecting monkeys against the Ebola and Marburg viruses. Developed by researchers in Canada and the US, the vaccines represent a big step forward in the quest to protect humans from these two deadly diseases. ( more
Serendip Search Handson activities for Teaching Biology to High School or Middle School Students Genetics. These activities help students to understand the basic http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/sci_edu/waldron/
Extractions: to High School or Middle School Students Ingrid Waldron is a member of the Biology Department at the University of Pennsylvania, who developed hands on biology activities for grades 6-12 in collaboration with colleagues at Penn and K-12 teachers. Serendip is pleased to make these activities available to a wider audience. These hands-on activities cover a broad range of biological topics, including genetics, natural selection, microorganisms, and human physiology. These activities are designed to: Supplies: Most of these activities can be carried out with minimum equipment and expense for supplies. Sources for needed equipment and supplies are indicated in the Teacher Preparation Notes. Printing the Labs and Teacher Preparation Notes: Each lab is available as a web page, as an Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) file (a more printer-friendly format), and as a Word file (which you are welcome to edit as appropriate for use in your classroom). You must have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer to read the PDF files. You can download the free Adobe Acrobat Reader software here Is Yeast Alive?
GEP Classroom Activities Genetics Classroom activities Genetics abounds with complex and abstract topics that can Genetics Teaching Vignettes Three teachers from the elementary, http://genetics-education-partnership.mbt.washington.edu/class/classact.html
Extractions: Genetics abounds with complex and abstract topics that can be a challenge for students to grasp. How can some of these difficult topics be taught in the classroom? The 1998 GEP retreats provided a forum for teachers to share their genetics teaching expertise in the form of Genetics Teaching Vignettes and shorter Cool Tools. Teachers participating in professional development workshops sponsored by our sister program, The GENETICS Project , also contribute their tools to the collection presented here. Genetics Teaching Vignettes Three teachers from the elementary, middle school, and high school levels presented extended vignettes of how they teach genetics in their classrooms in an age-specific way. These vignettes range from using sickle cell anemia as a case study at the high school level, to an extended population genetics exercise involving "toothpick fish" at the middle school level, to a demonstration of how basic genetics concepts can be integrated into the set curriculum that is part of the science kits approach that many elementary schools in Washington State have adopted. Cool Tools Cool tools include the visual and kinesthetic models and activities that teachers use to demonstrate genetics concepts in their classrooms. Sometimes a great article may be a cool tool. Or a zipper that demonstrates DNA base-pairing. Or an everyday analogy that can make an abstract concept crystal clear. Or a simple hands-on activity. Tools are sorted alphabetically, by grade level, or by type (models, analogies, activities). If you would like to submit a cool tool for inclusion in our on-line collection, please e-mail mtbrown@u.washington.edu.
Extractions: Who are you? Choose.. Student Teacher Medical Scientist/Research Member of GIG Patient Family Member Carer Press Other You are here: Education Genes and You Contents Please find below a contents list of the Genes and You pack. In each line you will find information in both PDF format as well as web page format. To return to this page at any time all you need to do is click on the red link at the top of each page which says "Genes and You Contents". If you have any difficulties then please do not hesitate to contact Melissa Winter at the Genetic Interest Group office on 020 7704 3141. To play the interactive genetic quiz, click on the symbol Genes and You - Table of Contents Section Title Web Page Link Download link Introduction Introduction Acknowledgements Acknowledgements Cross Curricular Activities Unit 1: What's it got to do with me?
Education And Genetics: Human Genome Project Information Human Genome Project and genetic publications, videos, posters, teaching aids, Teaching Aids Available for Purchase Software, activity kits, and other http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/education/education.shtml
Links To The Genetic World: 3 BioLogica hypermodel for teaching high school genetics Blazing a genetic Trail illustrated booklet on hunting for disease genes. Bugs in the News! http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/links3.shtml
