PBS Learning Media: More Alike Than Different
PBS Learning Media

Combining hands-on projects and interactive components, this robust lesson provides a thorough introduction to DNA, the function of genes, and similarities between and among organisms.

Steve Spangler Science: Strawberry DNA
Steve Spangler Science

In this lab, you extract and isolate DNA from strawberries using simple, household ingredients.

Genes in Space: What is Polymerase Chain Reaction?
Genes in Space

Learn  about DNA analysis techniques and ongoing space biology research.

OLogy: Around the World with DNA
OLogy (American Museum of Natural History)

Travel around the world with museum scientists: from Madagascar to Indonesia.

OLogy: What Makes You, YOU
OLogy (American Museum of Natural History)

Zoom inside your cells for a fascinating look at chromosomes, DNA, genes, and more!

Carnegie STEM Girls: Edible DNA
Carnegie STEM Girls

Make an edible model of DNA, then enjoy your creation!

Carnegie STEM Girls: Extract DNA
Carnegie STEM Girls

Your Challenge: You will isolate the DNA from a sample of spinach.

DNA Decoded: Secrets of Sequencing
DNA Decoded

Your students will work in small groups to model the genetic sequencing of a fictional patient’s DNA and explore the genetic elements that can be helpful in the diagnosis and treatment of people with genetic abnormalities.

DNA Decoded: Targeting Cancer
DNA Decoded

Your students will learn how targeted therapy is changing treatment for cancer patients by using gene sequencing to look for cellular changes, chromosomal abnormalities, and gene mutations.

AirSpace: The Long Way Home (Season 3|Ep.6)
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum

About 82,000 American service members are listed as Missing in Action – 72,000 from World War II alone.

AirSpace: Rover R-E-S-P-E-C-T (Season 2|Ep. 2)
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum

Our intrepid hosts explore the legacy of the real Rosalind Franklin, who helped us understand life on Earth, and the future of her namesake robot, who is going to search for signs of life on Mars.

Outside Podcast: Can’t Hack It? Gene-Hack It.
Outside

Outside editor Christopher Keyes looks at the efforts of Josiah Zayner, who is taking a damn-the-torpedoes approach to doing everything he can to bring gene editing to a laboratory—or even a garage—near you.