Websites to Explore

Check out the following websites; watch, listen, and explore! Videos and activities on Evolution http://www.ted.com/talks/jamie_oliver.html http://www.ted.com/talks/anthony_atala_printing_a_human_kidney.html http://www.ted.com/talks/rachel_sussman_the_world_s_oldest_living_things.html http://www.ted.com/talks/cynthia_breazeal_the_rise_of_personal_robots.html

Genetic Engineering

Below are some sources of information for the genetic engineering project. These sites will only get you started, so you may have to go to sources other than these. Please remember to cite the sources that you use! Spider-goats: / GM Crops / GM livestock (cows, turkeys, chickens, etc.) / GFP (in research, as pets: glofish, and glow in the dark cats): Cloning the mammoth: / Missyplicity Project: / Super Salmon: / GM Forests / Designer Children / Hypoallergenic Pets

Karyotype Lab

Go the following website. Read and summarize the Introduction (first three paragraphs up to "Your Assignment") and answer all questions for each of the three patients. BE SURE TO READ EVERYTHING ON THE SITE, IT WILL NOT MAKE SENSE IF YOU DO NOT READ CAREFULLY!

Stem Cell Project

Part A: the following is a website with an introduction to stem cells (only watch 3:55 of the "Play Video" video). Watch the video and take notes in each box. After watching the video, take only a few notes in Part A from . There isn't a movie here, but there are many links to click on so spend a few mintues exploring this site and taking a few notes on what you come across.

Part B: search for your own websites, including the following animation, and the NIH website on stem cells and...the following U. of Utah website.

Part C: the following is an activity that looks at the pros and cons of stem cell research. Click on "Stem Cell Poll" and go through the activity. Feel free to explore other sites. The following NPR article/podcast is also very good (you may also "listen")While going through, on your paper record pros and cons in the decision matrix.

Part D: Go the following site and click on "The Nature of Stem Cells" to answer questions 1 and 2. Click on the "Go, Go, Stem Cell" animation for number 3 and the cell type chart. For the concept map, read the article "The story of IPS" to get information to add to the concept map.

Immune System: "The Battle Within"

Task: You are going to produce characters based on the components of the immune system. The characters will make up a story line similar to how your body responds to pathogens. You will include the sequence from your body’s first line of defense through your body’s second line of defense. The characters that must be included are listed below, however you may portray the characters any way you wish to. The setting will be up to you as well, however there must be pictures/images used that make sense with the character portrayals you chose. The pathogen you choose must be a real-life bacteria or virus (again, the portrayal of this particular character may be as you wish, but its label/name must be real.)
Your final product may in the form of one of the following:
· Comic book, Comic strips, PowerPoint,Movie (on computer using images or video), Poster, Other (as approved by instructor)

Required Characters to Include:
· Pathogen
· First Line of Defense (skin, saliva, tears)
· T-helper cells
· T-cytoxic/T-killer cells
· B-cells
· Antigens
· Antibodies
· Lymph (nodes)

Grading will be based on the rubric provided in class and is due Thursday Feb. 17th

The following animation will help you with the characters

Reaction time game

online reaction time game

Regulation System: Neural Plasticity

Helpful webanimation about a nerve impulse

Helpful and intresting websites about neural Plasticity:

• Discovery video
• Medscape
• Nerves rewire themselves
• Feel lost limbs 1
• Feel lost limbs 2
• Plasticity and cognition
• Plasticity and memory
• Brain plasticity
• Michael Merzenich lecture video
• Neural Plasticity Journal (advanced)
• Superkid
• Grow a new brain?
• Exercise improving brain function
• Exercise and plasticity: 2002 study
• Brain fitness
• Others? (please post a "comment" if you find other sites)