Genetics Education Materials
Resource List
Other:
- The
Human Genome Project, MCET, Boston, MA, deal with the
ethical, legal, and social implications of genetic information and its dissemination.
Includes student projects, teacher resources, and interactive material.
- Genetics
Education Unit, genetics unit, ethics
unit, N.S.W.
Genetics Education Program including student center
and Victorian Certificate of Education, Murdoch Institute, Australia
- Kids writing that report
for school on Huntington disease
- Blazing
a Genetic Trail - online book, Howard Hughes Medical
Institutes. Includes information on Basic Genetics, the Human Genome Project, Glossary
- Oliver Sacks: The Mind Traveler -- a four part BBB / PBS television series:
1) Rag' Cajun
(Usher's Syndrome - deafness and blindness), 2) The Island of the Colorblind
(Pingelap, a Pacific atoll, ten percent of the population is colorblind),
3) Rage for Order (Autism), and 4) Don't Be Shy, Mr. Sacks (Williams Syndrome)
- How
a human cell acts like a computer
- DNA: The
Instructional Manual for All Life
- Science
Debates & Ethical Issues Web Sites(many
on genetics)
- A Genetics Role-playing Activity, by
SNelson
- Access
Excellence Genetic Lesson Plans:
- BioForum
lectures, scientists share research results, Access
Excellence and California Academy of Sciences
- DNA
Learning Center, Cold Spring Harbor
Laboratory, laboratory exercises, lectures, and curricula for primary and
secondary school students, teachers, and public
- Graphics
Gallery, Essential Cell Biology .pdf files, Garland Publishing,
over eighty images, BAlberts, DBray, AJohnson, JLewis, MRaff, KRoberts, Walter,
for introductory biology students
- Genetic
illustrations, National Human Genome Research Institute
(NHGRI) and Office
of Science Education and Outreach (OSEO), also Talking
Glossary of Genetic Terms, and Research
Technique Fact Sheets .pdf versions
- Gene
Connection curriculum, gel box, Ohm's Law, relative atomic
mass, labs, micropipetting, gel electrophoresis, finger printing lab(s).Some
from teachers and Fotodyne
- Understanding
Gene Testing, National Cancer Institute, Basic information
about gene testing and key genetic concepts, science, potential benefits,
potential risks of gene testing
- Share-a-thons
teaching strategies and activities, by teachers participating in Share-a-thons
at national teaching conferences and conventions, not peer-reviewed
- Winding
Your Way Through DNA, genetics symposium, University
of California, San Francisco, DNA scientists Interviews,
lectures, videos, resource
books
- Woodrow
Wilson Biology Collection, activities, Fellows of the
Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, Princeton, New Jersey, human
ecology, bioethics, biotechnology and genetics
Genetic
Books
These genetics education
materials were compiled by the Genetics Education Center, University of Kansas Medical
Center, Kansas City, KS 66160-7318. phone: (913) 555-6043 e-mail: dcollins@kumc.edu
In general, it contains
materials available since 1992 which may be helpful to teachers and other professionals
to supplement their teaching curricula. The books, booklets,
brochures, computer programs, curriculum, journals, hands-on materials, newsletters,
and videotapes are part of an ongoing genetics education database project. We
welcome input, updates, and suggestions.
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