Classroom Resources

This interactive, modular lab explores the tools that doctors use to examine and diagnose patients with heart conditions.

This interactive, modular lab explores how the ELISA method can be used to test blood samples for evidence of certain diseases.

This interactive, modular lab explores techniques for identifying and recording the electrical activities of neurons, using the leech as a model organism.

This interactive, modular lab explores how stickleback fish and fossil specimens are used to study evolutionary processes, with an emphasis on data collection and analysis.

This interactive, modular lab explores the techniques used to make transgenic flies and demonstrates how these flies can be used to study gene expression.

This interactive, modular lab explores the evolution of the anole lizards in the Caribbean through data collection and analysis.

This interactive, modular lab explores the techniques used to identify different types of bacteria based on their DNA sequences.

This interactive module allows students to investigate their own ecological questions using data collected by trail cameras in Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique.

This video explores how advances in DNA sequencing technology have improved cancer diagnosis and treatment.

This video describes two methods for developing transgenic mice to study human genetic diseases.

This hands-on activity serves as an introduction to the film The Birth and Death of Genes. Students investigate the importance of antifreeze proteins for icefish survival through one of two short labs.

In this lab activity, students rear mosquitoes to test variables that might affect the mosquito life cycle.