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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Harlem Dna Lab: Bacterial Transformations

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lab, students will transform E. Coli bacteria to be resistant to ampicillin and to glow green. Students will use genetic engineering techniques to insert plasmids into the bacteria. The site contains background reading,...
Interactive
University of Utah

University of Utah: Dna Mircoarray Virtual Lab

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive lab will enhance learning about DNA by virtually translating a gene.
Activity
Chemistry Collective

Chem Collective: Unknown Concentration of Dna Solution Problem

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this advanced limiting reagent problem, students use the virtual lab to determine the concentration of a solution of DNA by reacting it with known amounts of a fluorescent dye which binds to the DNA.
Interactive
University of Utah

University of Utah: Genetic Science Learning Center: Dna and Verdicts

For Students 9th - 10th
Part of a site on genetics, this page explores DNA as a forensic science. Explains how and why DNA can be used to convict or acquit a criminal from wrongdoing using forensic DNA analysis. Teacher resources too.
Activity
Chemistry Collective

Chem Collective: Dna Binding Problem

For Students 9th - 10th
In this activity, students explore equilibrium constants in biochemical systems by measuring the binding constant of a DNA-Dye reaction.
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Carnegie Mellon University

Chem Collective: Dna Binding Dyes Scenario

For Students 9th - 10th
This activity explores the equilibrium of dyes that self-assemble into DNA templates. Students use knowledge of equilibrium and quantitative spectroscopy to explore different dyes that bind selectively to DNA molecules. In this activity,...
App
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Hhmi: Bio Interactive: Bacterial Id Virtual Lab App

For Students 9th - 10th
This app will help students "learn about the science and techniques used to identify different types of bacteria based on their DNA sequences".
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Smithsonian Institution

Lemelson Center: Spark!lab: Extract Dna

For Students 9th - 10th
Dissect strawberries and use common household ingredients to successfully extract and examine the strawberry DNA.
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Other

British Columbia Institute of Technology: Extraction of Dna

For Students 9th - 10th
A lab experiment to extract DNA from an onion using household equipment. Procedure includes both videos and pictures.
Interactive
University of Utah

University of Utah: Learn Genetics: How to Extract Dna From Anything Living

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Four steps is all it takes to get DNA out of a variety of living things. The requirements include a blender, meat tenderizer, isopropyl alcohol, and a test tube. Sources of DNA include but are not limited to split peas, strawberries,...
Interactive
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench: Modeling Dna Hybridization

For Students 9th - 10th
View this simulation of DNA Hybridization.
Activity
University of Utah

University of Utah: learn.genetics: How to Extract Dna From Anything Living

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
An experiment to extract DNA from green split peas, spinach, chicken liver, strawberries, and broccoli using simple household reagents.
Activity
National Health Museum

Access Excellence: Dna Sequencing (Dry Lab Activity)

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is an advanced level hands-on activity to explain the Di-deoxy sequencing of DNA.
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National Health Museum

Access Excellence: Dna Dry Lab

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lab illustrates how the order of nucleotides in DNA determines the order of amino acids in proteins. Relates DNA function to that of RNAand provides an exercise to demonstrate how mutations may occur. Includes a lesson plan and...
Interactive
University of Virginia

Uva Virtual Lab: Dna Close Up & Do It Yourself

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of three-dimension DNA models. Users can alter the models by moving or changing the parts.
Activity
National Health Museum

Access Excellence: Wolf Pack in a Bottle: Dna Simulation

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson plan can be used to illustrate the principle of electrophoresis without the equipment. Paper chromatography can be used to separate dye just like electrophoresis will separate DNA. The lab also covers DNA analysis for an...
Activity
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Introduction to Dna Extractions

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is a lab exercise giving instructions for the extraction of DNA from several different starting materials.
Lesson Plan
Huntington Library

Huntington Library:garden Lesson Plans: Fruit Salad Hold the Dna, Please [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th
After learning about DNA and how it is used in crime scene analysis, young scholars take part in a lab activity where they extract DNA from ripened fruit.
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Other

Cambridge Hands on Science: C Ha Os Science Roadshow: Kiwi Dna

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Engaging, hands-on experiment where learners identify the DNA of a kiwi.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Genomic Dna Isolation: From Human Cheek Cells

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lab activity students isolate genomic DNA from their own cheek cells. They then remove the DNA from those cheek cells through a laboratory process.
Interactive
American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Stuff to Do: Dna in a Blender

For Students 3rd - 8th
Follow these illustrated instructions to conduct a simple experiment in separating DNA from an onion!
Activity
Chemistry Collective

Chem Collective: Determining Reactants and Products in a Solution of Dna

For Students 9th - 10th
In this limiting reagents problem, students are given specific concentrations of DNA solutions and are asked to predict what products and reactants will remain after a specific volumes are mixed and reaction has occurred.
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Chemistry Collective

Chem Collective: Predicting Dna Concentration

For Students 9th - 10th
In this limiting reagents problem, students are given specific concentrations of DNA solutions and are asked to predict what products and reactants will remain after a specific volumes are mixed and reaction has occurred.
Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs: Nova Labs: Protein Synthesis in the Cellular Factory

For Students 9th - 10th
Watch short animations, read informational text, and make hypotheses about different aspects of protein synthesis.

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