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This demonstration can be used to help learners visualize DNA by lysing (breaking open) bacterial cells on a slide and “stringing up” the DNA with a toothpick in less than one minute.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 11 - 18 5 to 10 minutes
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In this activity, learners play a matching game with their families to discover common inherited traits and traditions. Learners distinguish between inherited traits and learned traditions.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 6 - 11 10 to 30 minutes
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In this activity, learners are challenged to track and record the passage of colored pom poms (representing genes) through generations of a family using a pedigree.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 11 - 18 30 to 45 minutes
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In this activity, learners make their own edible DNA double helix out of candy and find out about the shape of DNA.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 6 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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This laboratory exercise is designed to show learners how DNA can easily be extracted from lima bean bacteria. This experiment requires the use of a centrifuge (not included in cost of materials).

$10 - $20 per group Ages 11 - 18 45 to 60 minutes
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This laboratory exercise is designed to show learners how DNA can be extracted from a chunk of thymus (sweetbread) or liver.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 11 - 18 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity, learners are divided into teams.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 14 - 18 2 to 4 hours
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This "concept demonstration" provides learners with a concrete example (a pair of shoes in a classroom "cell") of what homology means.

free Ages 14 - 18 5 to 10 minutes
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In this activity, learners use edible models of the DNA molecule to transcribe an mRNA sequence, and then translate it into a protein.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 11 - 18 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity, learners construct a 3-D paper model depicting how histone, acetyl and methyl molecules control access to DNA and affect gene DNA expression.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 14 - 18 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity, learners build edible models of DNA, while learning basic DNA structure and the rules of base pairing.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 8 - 18 45 to 60 minutes
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This laboratory exercise is designed to show learners how DNA can easily be extracted from yeast using simple materials.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 11 - 18 45 to 60 minutes