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Mitosis dance

One way to represent the process of mitosis is through dance. One of my students suggested they do an interpretive dance for their natural world personal project. I think they were mostly kidding, but with a fair bit of encouragement they did end up doing it. The dance is much more literal than it probably … Continue reading “Mitosis dance”

More mitosis resources

One of our small group activities is to look at mitosis in onion cells. Anna Clarke, recommended the University of Arizona site which has an Online Onion Root Tips activity for those without access to the slides or microscope. It also provides a good review even if you do have those resources. Dr. Paul’s page … Continue reading “More mitosis resources”

Mitosis resources

Our assignments for natural world usually combine some reading and some type of activity, but all the short video clips available online are a great resource, so I’ve been adding them to the studyguides as I find them. The above two-minute, cell division video is a great example. Mitosis is a process, so it makes … Continue reading “Mitosis resources”

Meiosis: Passing on Half of Your Genes

Now that we have an idea of what a strand of DNA looks like we’re going to start talking about how our genes are passed on to our kids. During normal time (interphase) our DNA is stored in the nucleus of our cells. Humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes. Of each pair, one comes from … Continue reading “Meiosis: Passing on Half of Your Genes”

Beading DNA

Meiosis is a little hard to explain and follow, even with the videos to help, so I thought I’d try a more concrete activity — making DNA strands out of beads — to let students use their hands to follow through the process. I started them off making a simulated human with four genes. They … Continue reading “Beading DNA”