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Genetics Education Resources

Below we have provided resources developed by ASHG, as well as highlighted a few exemplary genetics curriculum, web sites, and books and videos developed by others. Educators and GEON members, consider using these resources with your K-12 students.

ASHG Resources
Curriculum
Web sites
Books & Videos

GENA Lesson Plans

The lessons in our database were developed by Geneticist-Educator Network of Alliances (GENA) teams and have been further adapted by ASHG for use in high school (or advanced middle school) life sciences classrooms. They are classroom-tested and ready-to-go!

DNA: The Long and Short of It

Explore the data ASHG collected at the 2011 USA Science and Engineering Festival on the National Mall in Washington, DC. Learn about height and tongue-rolling as complex and simple traits, respectively.


	Free Teaching Aids	Online Educational Materials	Free videos/ animation	Audio Clips	Teaching Aids for Purchase	Material Review	Reference Guide/ Fact Sheets	Glossary	Other Links	En Espanol
Action Bioscience - American Institute of Biological Sciences
BioEd Online - Baylor College of Medicine
Bioethics Resources for High School - Kennedy Institute of Ethics
BioInteractive - Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS)
Evolution and the Nature of Science Institutes
Foundations of Classical Genetics - Electronic Scholarly Publishing
Gene Almanac - Dolan DNA Learning Center
GeneTests - University of Washington
Genomic Biology - NCBI
Genetics Education Partnership
Genetics Home Reference - US National Library of Medicine
Genome News Network - the J. Craig Venter Institute
Genome.gov - National Human Genome Research Institute Talking Glossary of Genetics
Human Genome Project Information - Department of Energy
Learn.Genetics & Teach.Genetics - The University of Utah
MendelWeb
National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Education
Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man - NCBI
Omics Gateway - Nature
Personal Genetics Education Project
Positive Exposure: Arts and Blogs on the Beauty in Genetic Variation
The DNA Files - SoundVision Productions
Understanding Cancer Series - National Cancer Institute
Understanding Evolution - the University of California Museum of Paleontology
Virtual Genetics Education Center - Univ. of Leicester
Scitable - Nature

External Curricula

There are a significant number of genetics curriculum resources designed by different companies, curriculum development outlets, state curriculum designers and individual teachers. What resources are good? How do you know? As part of the Geneticist-Educator Network of Alliances (GENA) Project, a Curriculum Content Review Committee was formed to review readily available classroom resources about patterns of inheritance. Click here to see original evaluation form used by the committee and here to see the summary of the committee’s review.

We have highlighted a few exemplary genetics curriculum resources below that GEON members and teachers can consider using when teaching K-12 students.

Title	Publisher	Grade Level
A Case of Murder	The National Health Museum- Access Excellence	9-12
A Mendel Seminar	AAAS- Science NetLinks	11-12
Abraham Lincoln's DNA and Other Adventures in Genetics	Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press	n/a
Blackett Family DNA Activity 2	University of Arizona- The Biology Project	9-12
Cell Biology and Cancer	NIH - Curriculum Supplement Series	9-12
Garden Genetics	NSTA	9-12
Genes, Environment, and Human Behavior	BSCS	9-12
The Genetics of Parenthood	The National Health Museum- Access Excellence	9-12
GenScope	The Concord Consortium	9-12
Human Genetics Variation	NIH- Curriculum Supplement Series	9-12
Presymptomatic Testing for Huntington's Disease	High School Human Genome Program	9-12
Sickle Cell Anemia	University of Washington- Genetic Education Partnership	10-12

Whether you are ready to teach an undergraduate genetics course or want a way to introduce genetics to your own children, there might be a resource below perfect for what you are looking for. ASHG partners with Cold Spring Harbor Press to provide a 10% discount to those who order the books listed below through this link.

Children

Gene Machines (Enjoy Your Cells Series 4) By Fran Balkwill; Mic Rolph

Have a Nice DNA (Enjoy Your Cells Series 3) By Fran Balkwill; Mic Rolph

Enjoy Your Cells (Enjoy Your Cells Series 1) By Fran Balkwill; Mic Rolph

Double Talking Helix Blues By Joel Herskowitz, New England Medical Center Hospitals,Boston Illustrated by Judy Cuddihy, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory; additional text by Ira Herskowitz, University of California at San Francisco

High School, Undergraduate, and Above

Evolution By Nicholas H. Barton, University of Edinburgh; Derek E.G. Briggs, Yale University; Jonathan A. Eisen, The Institute for Genomic Research; David Goldstein, Duke University Medical Center; Nipam H. Patel, University of California, Berkeley

The Genome of Homo sapiens (Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology LXVIII) By Bruce Stillman, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory; David Stewart, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

The Strongest Boy in the World and Other Adventures in Genetics By Philip Reilly, Fellow, American College of Medical Genetics Due March 2006 • 280 pp. (approx.), illus., appendices, index

A Passion for DNA: Genes, Genomes, and Society By James D. Watson, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory With an Introduction, Afterword, and Annotations by Walter Gratzer, King’s College London

Inspiring Science: Jim Watson and the Age of DNA Edited By John Inglis, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory; Joseph Sambrook, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre; Jan A. Witkowski, Banbury Center, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Murderous Science: Elimination by Scientific Selection of Jews, Gypsies, and Others in Germany 1933-1945 By Benno Müller-Hill, Institut für Genetik, Universität Köln

The Unfit: A History of a Bad Idea By Elof Axel Carlson © 2001 • 451 pp., illus., bibliography, indexes Book of the Year for 2001 in Amazon's Professional Science Category!

Mendel's Legacy: The Origin of Classical Genetics By Elof Axel Carlson, Professor Emeritus New York University at Stony Brook

Abraham Lincoln’s DNA and Other Adventures in Genetics By Philip R. Reilly, Interleukin Genetics and Tufts University School of Medicine

Is It in Your Genes? The Influence of Genes on Common Disorders and Diseases that Affect You and Your Family By Philip R. Reilly, Interleukin Genetics

DNA Science: A First Course, Second Edition By David A. Micklos, Dolan DNA Learning Center, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory; Greg A. Freyer, Columbia University, New York

An A to Z of DNA Science: What Scientists Mean When They Talk about Genes and Genomes By Jeffre L. Witherly, National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, Maryland; Galen P. Perry, National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, Maryland; Darryl L. Leja, National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, Maryland

DNA Interactive DVD Produced by Dolan DNA Learning Center, CSHL in collaboration with Red Green & Blue Company Ltd. Film footage by Windfall Films Ltd.

DNA from the Beginning Edited By David A. Micklos, Executive Editor; Jan Witkowski, Scientific Editor; Susan M. Lauter, Design Director; Shirley Chan, Writer/Managing Editor; Susan Conova, Researcher/Writer; Chun–hua Yang, Media Designer

Discovering the Double Helix (Video) By James D. Watson, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Conversations in Genetics: An Oral History of Our Intellectual Heritage in Genetics, Volume 1 & 2 Produced By the Following; Executive Producer, Rochelle Easton Esposito, The University of Chicago; Video production by Aaron Stadler, Fat Cat Video; Published by The Genetics Society of America

Need a tune to engage all levels of students? ASHG member, Jim Sikela and his daughter Megan want to share "I love DNA" with you. Here you can find the lyrics and the audio. Enjoy!

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