Allen Institute Resources for Teachers 2021 Part 1
The Allen Institute has continued to add to the free resources they make available to teachers. Along with the data sets and lesson plans I mentioned in my previous blogs (Virtual Teaching with Allen Institute Open Data Sets, New Resources at the Allen Institute for Cell Science, Allen Institute Resources for Teachers) they now have additional lesson plans covering an even wider range of topics. The Institute's lesson plans and resources are tailored for high school and college level educators. Activities are available for intro high school biology, AP/IB biology, college-level cell biology, and college-level neuroscience. I spent several enjoyable hours stepping through these plans and thinking about how fun they would be to do with students--I think you will too!
Current List of Lesson Plans:
- Introduction to Cell Biology: Middle School to Advanced High School levels.
- Introduction to the Immune System and Immunology: High School level
- Cell Biology Bingo: High School level and above
- Exploring Pathways in the Brain: College neuroscience, sections progress from introductory to advanced levels
- The Building Blocks of the Brain: AP/IB/Honors Biology, any grade, or introductory level college
- Mitosis and Microscopy: High School level
In addition to the wonderful lesson plans the Institute has also assembled some of the favorite Institute resources being used around the globe.
- Open Course material and Python Notebooks: Data science with the Allen Brain sets (created by Ashley Juavinett of the University of California, San Diego): College level neuroscience and data science
- A Course-Based research Experience Using the Allen Brain Map: From Research Question to Poster Session (created by Jim Ryan of Hobart and William Smith Colleges, with assistance from Kaitlyn Casimo of the Allen Institute).
- A virtual laboratory on cell division using a publicly-available image database (created by Eric Shelden of Washington State University): College cell biology
- Does Organelle Shape Matter? as shared in the American Society for Cell Biology article: Office Hours with EdComm (ASCB article written by Alison Dell, Does Organelle Shape Matter created by Carlos Goller of North Carolina State University with assistance from Kaitlyn Casimo of the Allen Institute ): College cell biology