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Teach.Genetics
A companion to the popular Learn.Genetics website from the University of Utah's Genetic Science Learning Center, Teach.Genetics offers additional tools and resources to help educators bring genetics, bioscience, and health alive in the classroom. A “Print and Go” ™ Lesson Plan Index contains activities designed to support and extend students' learning of the many topics featured on Learn.Genetics. Downloadable PDFs include complete instructions, student worksheets, overhead masters, and answer keys. The site, still in a Beta version, contains supplemental materials on Epigenetics, including activities, assessment questions, learning objectives, and background information. To support the Amazing Cells section on Learn.Genetics, supplementary materials explore the inner-most workings of cells, from the structure and function of organelles to communication on a molecular level. This genetics website was the first winner of the Science Prize for Online Resources in Education, which recognizes outstanding freely available online materials that enrich science education.
Program Director: Dr. Louisa Stark
Award Years: 1994, 1999, 2001, 2007
Summary: The University of Utah School of Medicine is located in Salt Lake City, Utah. Its HHMI-funded initiatives include:
- An award-winning Learn Genetics website with animations and interactive components, developed by the Genetic Science Learning Center at the University of Utah;
- Professional development courses and workshops for teachers that directly address science standards, update teachers’ knowledge and provide extensive experience with learning techniques, hands-on activities and assessments teachers can use with their students;
- Science enrichment and careers programs for students in grades 5-14 that include year-long and multi-day programs that introduce students to careers in genetics through hands-on activities; and
- A “Genetics for Your Life” project, which is developing inquiry-based, online and classroom curricula that will follow a learning progression from upper elementary school through middle school and into high school.