madteaparty Posted August 21, 2014 Share Posted August 21, 2014 We are doing life science this year but a lab field trip came up at a national laboratory; the topic being DNA, extraction, etc. I am thinking of doing the DNA chapter out of order to culminate in this. It does not really match the whole building blocks theory but I don;t want to miss out on the trip, or do the trip without info and revisit the DNA in order. Any thoughts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reefgazer Posted August 21, 2014 Share Posted August 21, 2014 You would be able to do that easily. Just teach biochemistry first, so your child understands atoms, molecules, basic bonding, etc... Then teach the structure of DNA and DNA replication, followed by transcription and translation (transcription and translation are not strictly required to understand the basics of DNA extraction). Biochemistry is the first biology topic I teach to my children, so it's easily do-able, and even makes the most sense to me. If you get the Wiz DNA kit off Amazon (about $20), it has terrific DNA experiments, including an extraction. The trip sounds exciting! At what facility? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madteaparty Posted August 21, 2014 Author Share Posted August 21, 2014 That makes a lot of sense, thank you. PM'ed you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcadia Posted August 21, 2014 Share Posted August 21, 2014 Definitely. My kids love this Lego DNA lesson plan by MIT for K-12 education.http://edgerton.mit.edu/k-12/teacher-resources/k-12-curriculum/dna-protein-and-trna/dna-protein-and-trna Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madteaparty Posted August 21, 2014 Author Share Posted August 21, 2014 Definitely. My kids love this Lego DNA lesson plan by MIT for K-12 education. http://edgerton.mit.edu/k-12/teacher-resources/k-12-curriculum/dna-protein-and-trna/dna-protein-and-trna I looked into this a while back but the set is not available. :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcadia Posted August 21, 2014 Share Posted August 21, 2014 I looked into this a while back but the set is not available. :( We use our own Legos. I think my kids use mainly the parts from the Star Wars sets. ETA: We also did the paper models http://www.gov.mb.ca/conservation/sustain/dnadone.pdf http://www.pgsd.org/cms/lib07/PA01916597/Centricity/Domain/185/DNA%20model%20activity.pdf ETA: Lego model with items list and instructions from UK http://www.ncbe.reading.ac.uk/dna50/lego.html ETA: DNA lab (1.5hrs) lesson plan from The Tech Museum San Jose for 5th graders and up http://www.thetech.org/sites/default/files/DNAandGenetics_0.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madteaparty Posted August 21, 2014 Author Share Posted August 21, 2014 We use our own Legos. I think my kids use mainly the parts from the Star Wars sets. ETA: We also did the paper models http://www.gov.mb.ca/conservation/sustain/dnadone.pdf http://www.pgsd.org/cms/lib07/PA01916597/Centricity/Domain/185/DNA%20model%20activity.pdf ETA: Lego model with items list and instructions from UK http://www.ncbe.reading.ac.uk/dna50/lego.html ETA: DNA lab (1.5hrs) lesson plan from The Tech Museum San Jose for 5th graders and up http://www.thetech.org/sites/default/files/DNAandGenetics_0.pdf Wow. Thanks so much! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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