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Instructional Video0:59
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Sickle Cell Anemia

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
The most common blood disorder in the United States, sickle cell impacts more than 70,000 Americans. Understanding the genetic coding that leads to this disease might one day help scientists prevent it altogether. Using a promising...
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Instructional Video9:51
Bozeman Science

Cellular Variation

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Variety truly is the spice of life. A video explores how plants have both chlorophyll a and b and the benefits of possessing both, how varying molecules allows for winter wheat, how possessing the heterozygous combination of sickle-cell...
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Instructional Video7:22
Amoeba Sisters

Mutations: The Potential Power of a Small Change

For Students 7th - 12th
Are the only mutants you know Ninja Turtles or X-Men? The video explains both gene mutation and chromosome mutation. It includes the subtypes of mutations for each major type, the times when mutations are more likely to happen, and the...
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Instructional Video3:25
FuseSchool

Mutations and Natural Selection

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Mutations have a bad reputation ... but are they always harmful? Junior geneticists explore mutations and their effects in a Fuse School Evolution video. The content features sickle cell disease, its effects on the body, and its ability...
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Instructional Video4:40
TED-Ed

How This Disease Changes the Shape of Your Cells

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
Just what exactly is sickle cell disease? A short, animated video explains how the cell adaption works, how inheriting the sickle cell trait can be an advantage in malaria-prone areas, and how sickle cell disease can be deadly.
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Instructional Video1:48
Curated OER

Marie Curie Biography

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Double-Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie is the subject of a brief mini-bio that provides an overview of her life and research accomplishments.

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