DNA from the beginning – cool blog for teachers
If you are a primary or secondary teacher, this is a blog worth checking out if you are teaching anything to do with DNA and genetics
This is a great blog from the Dolan Learning Centre and will be of interest to primary and secondary teachers. I say primary because in my experience primary students can easily grasp the concepts of cells and DNA and the Dolan Learning Centre certainly teaches primary-aged students this stuff.
The blog posts chats about and explores the issues that arise in the Dolan Learning Centres educational programs. For example, the recent posts look at how to explain inheritance to younger students without getting into meiosis and suggestions on how to handle the tricky questions that might follow; how does every cell have exactly the same DNA, yet such diverse functions; why do we study non-human animals such as the fruit fly, yeast or even plants to learn about human disease…and so on.
The posts appear to be by people teaching students that come into the Dolan Learning Centre and there are comments from teachers themselves. Definitely a blog worth sticking into your feed reader.
Jason