Conference & Workshop Materials
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Introduction to Wisconsin Fast Plants®
Learn how to plant and teach with Fast Plants®. Ideal for all grade levels, they are easily used to explore many scientific concepts. View »
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Strawberry Milkshakes: DNA and Lactose Intolerance
In this workshop, learn how to introduce students to molecular biology through age-appropriate, hands-on activities designed to make challenging abstract concepts (including DNA, genes, and enzymes) more concrete—and to make biology fun. View »
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They Come in Pairs: Addressing Student Misconceptions About Chromosomes
What if meiosis and chromosomes were as easy to understand as folding laundry? This workshop shows how ChromoSock® specialty socks can address student misconceptions. View »
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Hands-On Activities to Model Sampling, Habitat Degradation, and Animal Choice
This workshop explores methods to estimate population size, determine the effects of habitat degradation, and investigate organisms' habitat preference. View »
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Clean Up Your Mess! Air and Water Pollution Remediation
Pollution remediation is a messy but necessary business. Experience hands-on environmental science activities that model the techniques used to clean up pollution. View »
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Build a Bot with Cubelets®, Robot Blocks
Give your students an engineering design challenge with Cubelets®, Robot Blocks. Develop a series of tasks that a robot can perform, then let students engineer and test the robots. View »
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Making Algae Beads
In this activity students create spheres of green algae for use in experiments that explore the metabolic processes of plants. Includes a materials list and step-by-step instructions. View »
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Disorder Detectives
In this activity, students take on the role of a cytogeneticist. They are given a case study and a set of patient chromosome decals that they arrange into a completed karyotype. View »
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Strawberry DNA Extraction
Introduce students to DNA with this activity. A discussion of how this DNA extraction procedure works might also touch on the plant cell wall, the cell membrane, and DNA's lack of solubility in ethanol. Includes materials list and step-by-step instructions. View »
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