The Genetic Science Learning Center is a wonderful site for anything genetic and includes topics like "How to extract DNA from anything living" (using detergent, meat tenderizer, and alcohol), genetic disorders, and current events in genetics. The site explains how to build a low-cost genetics lab and publishes teaching kits. Though less abundant, the genetics lab at Dolan DNA Learning Center offers similar learning aides.

The Human Genome Project is a sophisticated and world-wide undertaking. Oak Ridge National Laboratory has set up an information site with resources for educators, FAQ's, and a discussion of the Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues. The collection of sites has been consolidated at Genome Gov.

BioDesigns, Incorporated offers a simulation of a 4 person genetic engineering team-- a geneticist, biologist, lawyer and an economist/ethicist. Targeted to Grades 7-12, this simulation provides a testbed for practicing outcomes of research.

Genetically Engineered Food explores the issues and provides an opportunity for drafting regulations of this growing industry. The process itself is explained briefly.

Along came the next hot genetic topic, stem cell research. CNN has compiled a reasonable presentation of the issues, science, politics and analyses of this challenge.

Since the release of the "Book of Life" by the public and for-profit human genome project, a "map" of this work is available FREE to schools. Bodymap displays a comparison/contrast of the genes in a human and mouse.

The National Human Genome Research Institute is the repository for the collection of species-specific gene sequences. The honey bee, for instance, contains 300 million DNA base pairs. Look at the Genographic section at National Geographic for a summary of five years of research.

For a deeper understanding and manipulation of mutations Look at the Molecular Workbench, developed at the Concord Consortium.

ActionBioscience articles are categorized into Biodiversity, Environment, Genomics, Biotechnology, Evolution, New Frontiers, and Education. Lessons are keyed to the National Science Education standards. This site summarizes the key issues of the future of biological sciences.

Science Scope, a journal published by NSTA, devoted its Summer, 2005 issue to well thought-out lessons on cells. For instance, students act in a simulation about producing chocolate peanut butter cups to understand the complex entities within a cell. Quite mouth-watering! (click on the grade-level icon on the main page and scroll down to the publication's table of contents)

Evolution at Berkeley demonstrates evidence for evolution and the evolution of evolution.

The bioethics (ethical, legal and social) of genetic testing, a collaboration between the University of Rochester and New York state's professional develop0ment network, illustrates an excellent, progressive disclosure PBL model. a must-see.

To visualize how a plant is genetically modified look at the University of Nebraska's site.

Genetic Science Learning Center - University of Utah

http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/

Dolan DNA Learning Center

http://www.dnalc.org/

Human Genome Project Information

http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome
/home.shtml

Genome Gov

http://genome.gov/

BioDesigns, Incorporated (a genetic engineering project)

http://web.archive.org/web/20070529202310/http:/
/www.itdc.k12.ca.us/curriculum/biodesigns.html

Genetically Engineered Foods

http://www.thecampaign.org

Human Genome Map

http://www.genome.gov/

Stem Cell Research

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/yir/interactive/gallery
/frameset.6.exclude.html

BodyMap

http://www.bodymaps.com/

National Human Genome Research Institute

http://genome.gov/

Molecular Workbench

http://workbench.concord.org

ActionBioscience

http://www.actionbioscience.org

Cells and Chocolate

http://www.nsta.org

Evolution at Berkeley

http://evolution.berkeley.edu

Bioethics of Genetic Testing

http://learningcenter.nsta.org
/product_detail.aspx?id=10.2505/4/tst06_073_08_28

Nebraska-genetic modification of plants

http://citnews.unl.edu/hscroptechnology/index.html