Finding Information on Teaching with Technology

So Colleen Dunning, Ashley Hudson, and I busted out some mad searching for online resouces to teach high school students about DNA. We were interested in whether or not there were good technology-based resources out there for making understanding and visualizing DNA easier. Here is a smattering of what we found:

From Google searches:

NobelPrize.org has a great little game for teaching students about DNA replication. All you have to do is grab the adenine, guanine, cytosine, or thymine and stick it on the appropriate sister molecule. Don't mutuate the gene though or else fluffy might have three eyes. Once you make it through the replication stage, you can use simple principles of genetics to discern what species the DNA you just replicated came from.

From Forum Replies on Classroom 2.0:

Nick McCarty-Daniels from Classroom2.0 replied with a nice resource from Scholastic.com. WebQuest: What's the Big Deal About DNA lets teachers use resources from the American Museum of Natural History to teach students about DNA. Included is a nifty worksheet that lets students summarize what they have learned about DNA from the webpage and associated link. Also, it seems like this material is only Some Rights Reserved, so print away!


Jcalvert from Classroom2.0 replied with another resource from the JMOL library. JMOL is a resource database of quite a few organic and inorganic molecules pertinent to the study of chemistry and biology. Unfortunately JMOL did not have a model of DNA, but it could still be used to teach about the structure of other important molecules.