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Teacher Resources
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Algal Phototaxis
Here is a great activity to help you demonstrate algal phototaxis in your classroom.
Teaching with Ecosystem Aquariums
By creating and maintaining an aquarium ecosystem in the classroom, students can understand the web of relationships that link organisms to one another. They also can develop a growing sensitivity to living things and what they need to survive.
Introductory Biotechnology: An Essential Curriculum
This essential curriculum for introductory biotechnology covers DNA structure and function, basic lab techniques, transformation, electrophoresis, restriction analysis, PCR and sequencing, bioinformatics, and bioethics.
Corn Ears for Genetics
To help you introduce corn genetics in your class, Carolina has highlighted a few of our corn ears that are especially appropriate for introductory activities.
Crayfish in the Classroom
Because of its very specialized, diverse yet similar appendages, the crayfish is the perfect specimen to convey to students the relationships between structure, function, and environment.
On the Cutting Edge: Forensic Pig Dissection
Looking for a fresh approach to standard mammalian dissection? Engage your students in a “real” (and perfectly legal!) classroom autopsy.
Hydrogen Power in the Classroom
This demonstration allows your students to see the results of energy transfer from light to electricity to chemical, and then back to electrical, using a reversible fuel cell.