Educational Resources

Yoga can help bring about a sense of calm and focus. Try this easy yoga routine for a quick and relaxing way to unwind from your day. Slow-paced and meant to inspire a sense of calm, this routine is perfect… [More]

Mindfulness exercises can reduce stress and anxiety! Feeling anxious? Grounding exercises can help to calm anxious thoughts and keep you focused and mindful in your environment. The 5-4-3-2-1 method is a grounding exercise that can be done almost anywhere and… [More]

An interactive content module lets the viewer compare the size of cells with other items through use of a visual sliding scale, from a 1 mm square down to a 340 pm carbon atom.* This module, “Cell Size and Scale”… [More]

BioEd Online, the online educational resource for educators, students, and parents. BioEd Online utilizes state-of-the-art technology to give you instant access to reliable, cutting-edge information and educational tools for biology and related subjects. Our goal is to provide useful, accurate,… [More]

This 5-lesson unit teaches biology concepts to high school students through the phenomenon of type 2 diabetes. The unit integrates Next Generation Science Standards and addresses both physical and social mechanisms that contribute to the growth of type 2 diabetes… [More]

Our web-game Blood Sugar Balance models glucose homeostasis in a fun and engaging way. The game explores the intersection of access to resources with personal choices while modeling stages of Type 2 Diabetes. This game is an extension of the… [More]

The adult human body is made up of several bones- 206 bones to be exact! All these bones make up the skeletal system which has three main functions. 1. Gives the body the right shape. 2. Allows the body to… [More]

The CDC has a large site with many COVID-19 resources. They provide information on how to protect yourself from infection, what the symptoms of COVID-19 are, how to do a self-check for symptoms, who is at increased risk, knowing when… [More]

Online resources exploring the science, the history, and the ethics of cloning. Includes an interactive cloning experience, an interactive quiz, and explorable web content. Related classroom materials include activities about cloning legislation and constructing a cloning timeline (available at https://teach.genetics.utah.edu/content/cloning/)…. [More]

‘COVID-19, the great pandemic of 2020’ is a comprehensive journey into how scientists are learning about the virus, the disease, epidemiology and vaccines, and how what they learn is impacting public health policy in real time. It is designed for… [More]

A game about acne and the immune system Benji is your typical teenager. He loves to hang out with his friends, play guitar, and he has acne. When his breakouts start taking a toll on his confidence, will he be… [More]

Designed to show kids that engineering is active, fun, and collaborative, “Design Squad” brings together eight high schoolers, working together in two groups of four, to tackle engineering projects for actual clients. On each episode, the teams have two days… [More]

The mission of the DNA Learning Center is to prepare students and families to thrive in the gene age. We envision a day when all elementary students are exposed to principles of genetics and disease risk; when all high school… [More]

A virtual DNA Microarray biotechnique lab experience including step-by-step experiment steps along with tutorials on the science of microarrays.

  Drinking water datasets derived from our SEPA program are accessible on a custom platform developed by Tuva. The platform is open to all users at arsenicdata.tuvalabs.com.