Resources
The Theme: In the first minute, if not the first moment, put something intriguing in the hands of the learners or something puzzling in their minds.
Our Goal: Sophisticated ideas elegantly presented with simple materials.
BioTrek Teaching Tools: Activities and analogies, paradoxes and puzzles that invite learners to explore and test ideas through experiments.
DNA De-Code of Life:
- DNA as Videotape
- Wheat Germ DNA Glop Extraction
- DNA Fiber of Our Lives
- Chymosin: Make Milk Stiff
- Genomics of Food
- DNA Fountain
- DNA Bracelets
- Human DNA Model
Biotechnology Tools:
Discovery:
- Which Makes Better Bubbles: Skim Milk or Whole?
- Is Shaking Necessary to Make Butter?
- Potato Chips: Can you See the Fat?
- Acid or Base?
- Where is the Starch?
- How Well do you Wash your Hands?
- Magical Pencils
- Milk Fireworks/True Identity
Wisconsin Innovation:
- Micropipette Story
- UW-Madison Center for Genomic Science Innovation
- UW-Madison Nobel Prize Winners
- Arabidopsis in Space
- Build a Better Potato Plant
- Monarch Butterflies and Bt Corn
- Venturing into Science with Rural Wisconsin
- Whitefly and Tomato Disease
- Red Bull May Not Give You Wings
