Classroom Resources

In this card activity, students investigate the functions of major digestive organs.

In this Click & Learn, students explore the process of digestion and how it connects to metabolism and cellular respiration. 

This activity explores images of animals with a mutation that affects coloration, which serve as phenomena for learning about skin color genetics and evolution.

This multipart animation series explores the process of photosynthesis and the structures that carry it out.

This interactive module explores niche partitioning, a mechanism that enables similar species of animals to coexist.

This video describes how scientists silence different genes in regenerating planaria to study the process of regeneration at the molecular level.

This video shows a technique used to obtain detailed images of nerve cells by fluorescent microscopy.

In this activity, students simulate a lactose tolerance test, similar to the one shown in the short film The Making of the Fittest: Got Lactase? The Co-evolution of Genes and Culture, to determine which samples contain the lactase enzyme.

This animation shows how human infants can digest milk using the enzyme lactase.

This animation shows how somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) creates an embryo from an egg cell and a body cell.

This tutorial explores how fat is digested, transported, stored, and used for energy.

This tutorial describes the various forms of “fat” — from a tissue, to a cell type, to a class of molecules.