by Jessica Allen | Jan 25, 2020
Cells Alive Return to Lesson Menu Lesson Overview Summary This activity allows students to explore cells in a new way. The set of protists used in this activity offer a wide range of motilities, sizes, and shapes. This activity also offers a great introduction to...
by Jessica Allen | Jan 25, 2020
Cell, Cell, What is a Cell? Return to Lesson Menu Lesson Overview Summary This is an activity that allows the instructor to identify any misconceptions about cells. It’s a great introduction into cells and the characteristics of living things because it requires...
by Jessica Allen | Jan 25, 2020
Cell-to-Robot Mindmap Return to Lesson Menu Lesson Overview Summary In this activity students construct an analogy between the central dogma and a robot “running a program”. Students are first asked to place the central dogma (DNA-RNA-Protein) in the correct order and...
by Jessica Allen | Jan 25, 2020
Bioethics Return to Lesson Menu Lesson Overview Summary This activity introduces students to ethics and bioethics. Bioethics concerns some of the more difficult dilemmas and decisions facing scientists as science advances, particularly in the field of Cellular...
by Jessica Allen | Jan 25, 2020
Bacterial Transformation Return to Lesson Menu Lesson Overview Summary This activity explores genetic engineering as a tool to construct new cellular organisms, using the pGLO Bacterial Transformation Kit from BioRad, but framing it as a biosensor activity. Bacterial...
