Curated OER
Diversity of Life
Students study the classification of viruses and describe their structure. In this investigative lesson plan students complete an activity and answer questions about viruses.
Curated OER
What's it Like Inside the Sun?
Students perform experiment in which they model convection as it occurs in our Sun. They also explain that convection acts where the effect of gravity and heat are present (low density fluids can rise and cool, and high density fluids...
Curated OER
Super Scientists Code
In this science activity, students use the key code on the right to unscramble each of the scientists. They also match each of the scientists found to their correct description.
Curated OER
Teaching Biotechnology by Analogies and Models
High schoolers examine analogies and create models to help visualize the concept and technique of basic biotechnology. Common scenarios are used to explain the complex procedures of genetic engineering.
Curated OER
RP Word Search Puzzle
In this literacy worksheet, students find the words that are related to the concepts that are the theme of the word search. New vocabulary is the focus of the puzzle.
Curated OER
The Effects of Ultra-Violet Light on Yeast
Young scholars work in small groups collecting and analyzing data as they learn how to best grow yeast. This lesson allows students to conduct several student-created experiments as they continually generate questions and hypotheses. ...
Curated OER
Polymerase Chain Reaction and DNA Profiling
Students examine DNA fingerprinting and polymerase chain reaction and how they are used in everyday life and for criminal investigations. They discover how these techniques can also be used to answer ecological and evolutionary questions.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Cell Cycle Checkpoints
Learn how cells use checkpoints to regulate the cell cycle. This article provides an overview of cell cycle control, outlining the factors that influence a cell's decision to pause or progress at each checkpoint.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Phases of the Cell Cycle
Article explores the life cycle of a cell and delves into the phases of the cell cycle.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Cell Cycle Regulators
This article looks at a few of the most important core cell cycle regulators: proteins called cyclins, enzymes called Cdks, and an enzyme complex called the APC/C.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Cancer and the Cell Cycle
Article takes a look at how cancer develops and what's wrong with cancer cells. Also, delves into how abnormal forms of cell cycle regulators can contribute to cancer.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Cell Cycle and Cancer
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Cell division is just one of several stages that a cell goes through during its lifetime. Students will learn about the phases of the cell cycle, specifically the...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Disruptions of the Cell Cycle: Cancer
Learn about how a disruption in the cell cycle can cause cancer in this tutorial.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: Cell Cycle
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The process of cell division in eukaryotic cells is carefully controlled. The cell cycle is the life cycle of a cell, with cell division at the end of the cycle....
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Cell Cycle, Mitosis and Cytokinesis
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] A description of the stages of eukaryotic cell division, a summarization of mitosis and the metaphase plate, an explanation of the function of the centrioles and the...
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Biology: Unit 3: Cell Structure
In this third unit of a Biology course, students learn about cells and cell structure. They compare prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells and learn about the specialized structures in a cell and what their functions are. They will also learn...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Plix: Cell Cycle
[Free Registration/Login Required] A site where students can label the cell cycle as well as take a short quiz on the topic.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Cell Division and Cell Cycle Study Guide
This comprehensive study guide covers the main terms and concepts needed for a unit on cell division and the cell life cycle.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: 2.20 Cell Cycle
Understand the life cycle of a eukaryotic cell.
PBS
Nova Online: How Cells Divide, Mitosis vs. Meiosis
Slideshow of mitosis and meiosis side-by-side. It is a summation of the two processes and the differences between them are clear.
City University of New York
Brooklyn College: The Cell Cycle: Naming the Parts
Use this information to help you understand the differences between major parts of the cell cycle. A good place to start a study of cell division.
University of Arizona
The Biology Project: The Cell Cycle & Mitosis Tutorial
The Cell Biology Project at the University of Arizona provides an explanation of mitosis, DNA basics, diagrams and a practice exercise.
University of Arizona
University of Arizona: Cell Cycle and Mitosis Tutorial
Has explanations, illustrations, and a Quick Time movie to download. Also contains practice test questions that are answered online.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Meiosis
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How do you make a cell with half the DNA? Meiosis. This activity outlines the phases of meiosis, provides an overview of sexual reproduction, and describe how...