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We have selected relevant material from MIT’s introductory courses to support students as they study and educators as they teach the AP® Biology curriculum.
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Immune Attacks content is geared for senior level high school biology and first year university biology.
To play the game, users control a microscopic robot and navigate through a first-person 3D body, completing a series of stepwise missions to detect a bacterial infection and activate the appropriate defensive immune cells. These stepwise missions follow the actual biological process that occurs during an infection and how immune cells are stimulated to kill the bacteria.
Note: This program is downloadable software for PC that requires a 3D graphics card.
The Gene Almanac offers this library of several short animations with introductory information. The subjects include cloning, DNA sequencing, arrays, transformations and restrictions. Other topics include gel eletcrophonesis, GeneChip probe arrays, the “Alu” jumping gene, model organisms, polymerase chain reactions, Sanger sequencing, and stem cell lines. The animations can be played online or downloaded to a PC or Mac.
The author outlines the differences between cell division by mitosis and meiosis. There is an accompanying animation of the process in split screen. It illustrates and compares each division, step by step.
From site: The expression “hands-on, minds-on” summarizes the philosophy we have incorporated in these activities — namely, that students will learn best if they are actively engaged and if their activities are closely linked to understanding important biological concepts. For example, it is helpful to use hands-on models to engage student interest and foster multiple modality learning, but it is crucial to closely link the modeling activity to the actual biological concepts the students are learning. Many of our activities are somewhat similar to other versions available on the Web or in print (as indicated in our acknowledgments), but the hands-on, minds-on versions offered here generally have a greater focus on linking the activity to student understanding and learning of important biological concepts.
