K-12 Education

Model organisms
Human Development
Visuals
Interactive sites
Lab resources
Tutorials and Lectures
Funding
Glossaries
Teaching resources

Model organisms

THE ZEBRAFISH BOOK: http://zfin.org/zf_info/zfbook/zfbk.html; A guide for the laboratory use of zebrafish, Danio rerio. For research and college use, but some elements will be useful for K12.
C. elegans Movies: http://www.bio.unc.edu/faculty/goldstein/lab/movies.html; Visual introduction to C. elegans development. Links to timelapse movies from researchers worldwide. Contents include Embryos; RNAi Screens; Larvae and Adults; Techniques, 4D movies.
Sea Urchin Embryology: http://www.stanford.edu/group/Urchin/; Laboratory modules use sea urchins to study fertilization and early development. Comprehensive resources including lab exercises, overheads, handouts, animations.
Volker Hartenstein's atlas of fly development: http://www.sdbonline.org/fly/atlas/00atlas.htm; Uses color figures to illustrate major events in embryogenesis. Suitable for both college students and career scientists. Some upper-division K12 students will also find items of interest.
Leon Browder's amphibian overview: http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/eduweb/virtualembryo/amphib2.html; Uses other's internet sites to examine frog development from oogenesis through embryo formation. Suitable for K-12 and college.
Jeff Hardin's sea urchin development: http://worms.zoology.wisc.edu/urchins/SUwelcome.html; Covers fertilization, cleavage, gastrulation and patterning, as well as laboratory experiments.
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Human development

http://www.visembryo.com/baby/

Navigate through the 40 weeks of human pregnancy to view the unique changes throughout human development. Look carefully! There are rulers making up the upper left corner of each image. Check for the tiny box that appears. That's the real size of the embryo or fetus at the stage indicated. Good graphics and explanations. Developed at the University of California Medical Center.

Human Embryological Modeling

http://www.fmhs.auckland.ac.nz/faculty/teaching/medsci142/embryo.aspx

From the School of Biomedical Sciences, University of St. Andrews, Scotland uses the British Universities Human Embryo Database to build animations that can be downloaded. Available animations include heart, l ung buds, cranio-cervical junction, eye, vomeronasal organ and implantation. It also has many histological sections, and a description of how embryos are reconstructed. Suitable for college and career scientists, but of some intrerest for upper level K12

Embryological development of the human

http://www.uic.edu/com/surgery/embryo/index.htm

has written material on heart development. Other systems are listed, but the text is still under construction. No figures.

Human Developmental Anatomy Center

http://nmhm.washingtondc.museum/collections/hdac/index.htm

Site from the National Museum of Health and Medicine includes the anatomy of human embryo stages, some with animations, a list of collections, phylogenetic limb comparisons, and searchable pediatric pathology images.

The multidimensional human embryo

http://embryo.soad.umich.edu/index.html

3-dimensional image reference of the Human Embryo based on magnetic resonance imaging.

Mark Hill's Embryology Resource

http://embryology.med.unsw.edu.au/

Deals with concepts in embryological development. Covers early development, systematic development, developmental abnormalities and molecular mechanisms. Resources include Carnegie stage 13/14 and stage 22 embryos cut in serial section, the human Carnegie stages, brief introductory descriptions, OMIM database refs and links to related www resources. Movies include human, rotating, limb bud, and mouse embryos. Includes K-12 notes for young students.

Human embryos

http://www.advancedfertility.com/blastocystimages2.htm

Human embryo images from a fertility clinic

Visible embryo links

http://www.visembryo.com/baby/links.html

Links to sites on human and mouse development

Human development overview

http://www.med.upenn.edu/meded/public/berp/overview/BV_1.html

From the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, this OVERVIEW is filled with animations. Internet Explorer browser needed to view Java applets. Click on a word and its location on the diagram shows up. It can take a while for the images to show up so just check back on the link in a few seconds. When you click on the term, a question mark and arrow indicate its location, and vice versa.

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Visuals

C. elegans Movies: http://www.bio.unc.edu/faculty/goldstein/lab/movies.html; Visual introduction to C. elegans development. Links to timelapse movies from researchers worldwide. Contents: Embryos; RNAi Screens; Larvae and Adults; Techniques, 4D movies
Jeff Hardin 's Amphibian Embryology Tutorial: http://worms.zoology.wisc.edu/frogs/welcome.html; Fertilization, grey-crescent formation, cleavage, gastrulation and neurulation. Experiments such as "frogs in space". Glossary, time lapse movies and animation. Suitable for K-12 and college.
Jeff Hardin's sea urchin development: http://worms.zoology.wisc.edu/urchins/SUwelcome.html; Fertilization, cleavage, gastrulation and patterning, as well as experiments.
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Interactive sites

BioEYES
http://www.jefferson.edu/bioeyes/
An interactive site of a program using zebrafish to teach K-12 (and beyond)
students about developmental biology and genetics. Request for teacher training is

available in selected regions.

Tom Brody's The interactive fly

http://www.sdbonline.org/fly/aimain/1aahome.htm

This site is award-winning and comprehensive. It thoroughly discusses genes, tissues, biochemical paths, and developmental processes in the fruit fly, Drosophila . Its gene index identifies genes with their functions, maternal and zygotically transcribed genes, genes important to behavior and genes in conserved pathways. Its tissue and organ development section shows stages and an atlas, as well as genes and processes in gastrulation, histogenesis, morphogenesis, organogenesis, imaginal discs, adult formation, oogenesis and spermatogenesis. Most suitable for college students and career scientists; advanced K12 may find items of interest.

Net Frog

http://frog.edschool.virginia.edu/

Interactive frog dissection online tutorial

Kathryn Tosney's The Origami Embryo

http://origamiembryo.cba.arizona.edu/

This learning aid helps students tounderstand the four-dimensional changes that characterize a developing embryo, as it transforms with complex three-dimensional changes over time (the fourth dimension). This site gives instructions on how to fold your own complex embryo from colored paper.

The Interactive Body

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/body/index_interactivebody.shtml

Organs Game, Muscles Game, Bones of the foot, Human eye, Senses Challenge, Nervous System Game, Puberty Demo. Games take 15-10 minutes.

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Laboratory resources

Sea Urchin Embryology: http://www.stanford.edu/group/Urchin/; This site presents a set of laboratory modules that use sea urchins to demonstrate fertilization and early development. Developed for use in courses for high school, junior college, or lower division college biology labs, the site presents comprehensive resources including lab exercises, overheads and handouts.
Laboratory exercise in heart development: http://www.lv.psu.edu/jxm57/chicklab/; This laboratory exercise teaching the Developmental and Physiological Aspects of the Chicken Embryonic Heart. The site includes all the information an instructor will need to set up the laboratory, including a materials list. Developed by Jacqueline McLaughlin's and Elizabeth McCain.
Virtual creatures: http://k-2.Stanford.edu/; Virtual creatures explores the educational potential of a new way of seeing and interacting with living creatures. It creates a high resolution computerized three-dimensional visualization of an actual organism in its entirety, inside and out, a "virtual creature".
Kathryn Tosney's The Origami Embryo: http://origamiembryo.cba.arizona.edu/; This learning aid helps students tounderstand the four-dimensional changes that characterize a developing embryo, as it transforms with complex three-dimensional changes over time (the fourth dimension). This site gives instructions on how to fold your own complex embryo from colored paper
THE ZEBRAFISH BOOK: http://zfin.org/zf_info/zfbook/zfbk.html; A guide for the laboratory use of zebrafish, Danio rerio. Written for research labs, but some materials will be useful for K12.
Cell Biology Laboratory Manual: http://homepages.gac.edu/%7Ecellab/index-1.html; An extensive list of molecular and cellular biology protocols and techniques from Gustavus Adolphus College. Appendixes include: units and measures; statistics; graphs; computers; image analysis; centrifugation; spectrophotometry; radioactive tracers; photography; and chemical preparations. An excellent place to search for any standard molecular/cellular biology protocol. Generally college level, but some materials will be useful for K12
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Tutorials and lectures

Jeff Hardin's tutorial for sea urchin development

http://worms.zoology.wisc.edu/urchins/SUwelcome.html

Covers fertilization, cleavage, gastrulation and patterning, as well as experiments. Includes glossary and some movies. Suitable for K-12 and college.

Jeff Hardin 's Amphibian Embryology Tutorial

http://worms.zoology.wisc.edu/frogs/welcome.html

Covers fertilization, grey-crescent formation, cleavage, gastrulation and neurulation, as well as experiments such as "frogs in space". A glossary, time lapse movies and animation supplement the helpful figures. Suitable for K-12 and college.

Embryo Images -Normal and Abnormal Mammalian Development

http://www.med.unc.edu/embryo_images/

This site is a tutorial that uses scanning electron micrographs (SEMs) as the primary resource to teach mammalian embryology. Kathleen Sulik and Peter Bream at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill built this tutorial.

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Funding

SchoolGrants: http://k12grants.org/; Site identifies general granting agencies, guidelines, and samples of successful grants for K12.
Education World's grant center: http://www.educationworld.com/a_admin/archives/grants.shtml; Identifies grant sources and multiple resources for writing a grant that concerns education.
Faculty & Research: Writing a Grant Proposal Writing Tips and Application Forms: http://cpmcnet.columbia.edu/research/writing.htm; Site from Columbia University links to abundant resources for aid in grant writing.
NSF grant writing
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/1998/nsf9891/nsf9891.htm#table: Helpful aid for writing NSF grants includes much helpful information, from the criteria for evaluation through writing the grant itself.
National Institutes of Health Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) Program
           http://www.ncrrsepa.org/
           SEPA program funds grants for innovative educational programs which create
           partnerships among biomedical and clinical researchers, K-12 teachers and
           schools, museums and science centers, media experts, and other educational
           organizations.
National Science Foundation
            http://www.nsf.gov/funding/index.jsp
            Funding opportunities for education at all levels are available through different
            programs in addition to the Education and Human Resources Program
            (http://www.nsf.gov/dir/index.jsp?org=ehr). Consultation with the program
            officers before preparation of applications is highly recommended.

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Glossaries

Jeff Hardin 's Amphibian Embryology Tutorial

http://worms.zoology.wisc.edu/frogs/glossary.html

Fertilization, grey-crescent formation, cleavage, gastrulation and neurulation. Also experiments such as "frogs in space". Glossary, time lapse movies and animation. Suitable for K-12 and superb for college.

Sea Urchin Embryology

http://www.stanford.edu/group/Urchin/glossary.htm

Laboratory modules use sea urchins to demonstrate fertilization and early development. Comprehensive resources including lab exercises, overheads and handouts.

Jeff Hardin's sea urchin development

http://worms.zoology.wisc.edu/urchins/SUglossary.html

Fertilization, cleavage, gastrulation and patterning, as well as experiments.

Talking glossary

http://www.genome.gov/10002096

The national human genome research Institute created the Talking Glossary of Genetic Terms to help people without scientific backgrounds understand terms and concepts used in genetic research. Each term has a page with a wealth of information, including the term's pronunciation, audio information, images and additional links to related terms.

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Teaching resources

Library of Educational Annotated DEvelopmental biology Resources (LEADER)
www.sdbonline.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=24&Itemid=33
          SDB’s online, peer-reviewed educational resources website in partnership with
          the BioEdNet (BEN – http://www.biosciednet.org) Collaborative, a pathway of
          the National Science Digital Library (NSDL - http://nsdl.org)
BioEYES
          http://www.jefferson.edu/bioeyes/
          An interactive site of a program using zebrafish to teach K-12 (and beyond)
          students about developmental biology and genetics. Request for teacher training
          is available in selected regions.
National Institutes of Health Office of Science Education
         http://science.education.nih.gov/home2.nsf/feature/index.htm
         Educational resources for K-12, general public; curriculum supplements at grade
         levels; online and in print; careers and programs in Washington DC area.
National Institute of General Medical Sciences (National Institutes of Health) School Resources
          http://www.nigms.nih.gov/Publications/Classroom.htm
          Free science education materials for students and teachers provided by NIGMS
         on: basic research, cell biology, genetics, pharmacology and other subjects of
         interest.
Science, Evolution and Creationism
          http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=11876
          In this book a group of experts assembled by the National Academy of Sciences
and the Institute of Medicine explain the fundamental methods of science,
document the overwhelming evidence in support of biological evolution, and
evaluate the alternative perspectives offered by advocates of various kinds of
creationism, including "intelligent design." PDFs of chapters may be
          downloaded. This is an updated, 3rd edition of a previous
         NAS publication Teaching about evolution and the nature of science.
National Academies’ Evolution Resources
            http://www.nationalacademies.org/evolution/index.html
            Excellent site for all to learn about evolution and how to communicate about
            evolution.
Center for Biology Education K12/Outreach
            http://cbe.wisc.edu/K12/
            Inquiry-based approach to learning program at the University of Wisconsin-
            Madison.
Access Excellence: http://www.accessexcellence.org/; This national educational program at the National Health Museum puts biology teachers in touch with their colleagues, scientists and critical sources of new scientific information. Hosts a resource center with a visual libraries, biotech issues and career guides, archives of ideas, activities, and new science findings. College and K12
National Association of Biology Teachers: http://www.nabt.org/; The National Association of Biology Teachers is "the leader in life science education." To date, more than 9,000 educators have joined to share experiences and expertise with colleagues from around the globe; keep up with trends and developments in the field; and grow professionally.
The American Biology Teacher: http://www.nabt.org/sup/publications/abt.asp; This nationally recognized journal has specific how-to-do-it suggestions for the classroom and laboratory, field activities, interdisciplinary programs, and articles on recent advances in biology and life science. Each issue features reviews of books, classroom technology products, and "Biology Today." Published 9 times a year, the journal also covers the social and ethical implications of biology and ways to incorporate such concerns into instructional programs. Accessible on line.
Developmental biology lessons: http://www.carnegieinstitution.org/first_light_case/horn/DEVBIOL/dbiolessons.html; Resources and ideas for teaching development at upper K12 levels.
How People Learn: Bridging Research and Practice: http://www.nap.edu/catalog/9457.html; Site to download PDFs of chapters from this useful book. College and K12
Knowing What Students Know: The Science and Design of Educational Assessment: http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10019.html; Site to download PDFs of chapters from this useful book. College and K12
National Center for Science Education: http://www.natcenscied.org/; Supplies resources to defend the teaching of evolution. K12
National Association of Biology Teachers; links to evolution: http://www.nabt.org/sub/evolution/default.asp; The links on this site are sample the wealth of Web resources on evolutionary science.
Judy Heady's Web site: http://www-personal.umd.umich.edu/%7Ejheady/; Site covers early embryology and science education. It includes embryology lecture reading, links, pedagogy.
Developmental Biology Resources for Pre-College Teachers: http://www.carnegieinstitution.org/first_light_case/horn/devbiol.html
Inner Space Teachers Guide: http://www2.edc.org/NCIP/workshops/Science/zookbook.htm; A great reference list of free publications. Contact each institution. College and K12
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Publications: http://catalog.hhmi.org/; Request a free classroom set of many of the booklets by writing using your school letterhead if enough copies are available. These are excellent supplementary materials for textbooks and/or for students interested in special topics.
Life Sciences Education: http://www.lifescied.org/; This online, quarterly journal on pedagogy issuesis owned and published by The American Society for Cell Biology. College level, but many articles will be useful for K12 instruction.
National center for case study teaching in Science: http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/projects/cases/case.html; Concerns using case studies in education. Offers analyses and many resources, some of which will be useful for K12.
Talking glossary of genetic terms: http://www.genome.gov/10002096; National human genome research Institute created the Talking Glossary of Genetic Terms to help people without scientific backgrounds understand terms and concepts used in genetic research. Each term has a page with a wealth of information, including the term's pronunciation, audio information, images and additional links to related terms.
Faculty & Research: Writing a Grant Proposal Writing Tips and Application Forms: http://cpmcnet.columbia.edu/research/writing.htm; Site from Columbia University links to abundant resources for aid in grant writing.
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