Life Science
Featured Content
-
Your Life Science Pacing Guide for 3-Dimensional Teaching
Interactive
-
Human Body Systems
Interactive
-
Bacteria and Media Reference Guide
Interactive
-
Student Biology Laboratory Safety Agreement
Document
-
Teaching the Cell Cycle and Mitosis
Mitosis is a foundational cell process that lays the groundwork for understanding complex topics such as growth, reproduction, and disease. Use this helpful guide to plan your lessons for teaching mitosis to your students. View »
-
Dissections in a Flipped Mastery Classroom
Dissection plays an essential role in every anatomy and physiology class. As a teacher, you know it’s valuable, but do your students? Show them the value of performing dissections and give them a learning experience that’s authentic and engaging when you use the flipped-mastery approach. View »
-
Studying Genomes in the Madagascar Forest Using miniPCR®
When it’s difficult to bring DNA samples to a lab, why not bring the lab to the samples? Find out how a portable thermal cycler is changing the way a biological anthropologist performs her research. View »
-
Wisconsin Fast Plants® and Science and Engineering Practices Fast Plants exemplify the traits of a useful model organism. You'll find that the plants effectively engage students in genuine science inquiry within classroom constraints. View »
-
Introduction to C-FERN®
Teaching the basics of plant biology and capturing students' interest can be a daunting task. But C-Fern offers a dynamic new approach to teaching the basic aspects of plant biology. View »
-
Teach Life Cycles with the Tobacco Hornworm
Want to bring more excitement and wonder into your classroom as you teach life cycles in the spring? Bring in something new and different—something that may be the highlight of your semester. View »
-
Engineering for Sports: Traumatic Brain Injury
How can sports-related brain injuries be prevented? Get tips and resources to help your students engineer and test brain protection device designs. View »
-
Bacterial Hydrolysis of Starch
In this lab, students culture two bacteria on potato dextrose agar, which contains starch. When grown on potato dextrose agar, bacteria that can secrete amylase—an enzyme that hydrolyzes starch—create a zone around their colonies in which starch is absent. When the agar is flooded with iodine solution, most of the plate stains dark blue–black, but clear areas are left around colonies that secrete amylase. View »
-
Introduction to Prokaryotes: Bacteria
What are bacteria? In this introductory lab students make smears of bacteria on microscope slides from pure cultures, perform a simple stain, and observe their stained slides under a microscope View »
-
Explore Animal Diversity with Microscope Slides
Microscope slides are ideal tools for exploring animal diversity. They allow students to see, firsthand, body plans, structures, levels of complexity, and more. View »
-
Investigating Photosynthesis
This video contains great activities you could use to teach photosynthesis! View »
-
Introduction to Planaria
In this lab, students examine the anatomy and behavior of the planarian, a simple animal with bilateral symmetry. View »
Twitter
Facebook
YouTube
