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Biotechnology: Science for the New Millennium (BS4NM) to educators free of charge

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Ellyn Daugherty
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Biotechnology: Science for the New Millennium (BS4NM) to educators free of charge! After 40 years in Biology and Biotechnology Education, I have decide to provide all of my Biotechnology: Science for The New Millennium curriculum FREE to science educators for use with their own students.

That means that any educator that can demonstrate that they are affiliated with an educational facility will be able to get PDFs and electronic copies of the BS4NM Textbook, Lab Manual, Instructor's Guide and Course Planner (lesson plans) as well as most of the online digital BS4NM resources for use in their classroom with... Read more

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We need your input on the InnovATEBIO Summer High School Series

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Sandra Porter
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Biotech Nation!

The InnovATE BIO Summer Series is planning a comeback*! Help us decide how to help you: in person, virtual, synchronous, asynchronous?

Please help us focus our planning on your interests and needs by completing this short survey: https://forms.gle/cF1hHfF9VMrP1LBd9

Stay safe and may all of your transformation efficiencies remain high this Spring!!!!

Jennifer Lazare , InnovATE BIO HS Pathways

*If you did not complete the Canvas Virtual Biotech Course and would like access to a plethora of resources, please use the link... Read more

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Breakthrough - a documentary about Nobel Prize Winner Jim Allison

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Sandra Porter
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This article was written and contributed by Anne Phillips | Manager, Market Development | Uncommon Productions

Breakthrough is a documentary about Nobel Prize winner Jim Allison that highlights how courage, passion, determination, collaboration, and innovation can change the world and inspire hope against huge odds. Inspire your students with this heartwarming story of how science can solve some of our most pressing problems.

Sign up here for a free educational license of the award-winning documentary Jim Allison: Breakthrough to screen with your students and receive a copy of... Read more

Teaching AgBiotech and Exploring AgBiotech Careers

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Sandra Porter
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Click the image to download the new AgBiotech curriculum supplement from the FDA

Laurie Issel-Tarver from Ohlone College sent me a link to this new AgBiotech curriculum resource from the FDA. This was jointly developed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the National Science Teaching Association (NSTA). It's called " Science and the Food Supply " - Exploring Food Agriculture and Biotechnology - Teacher's Guide for High School Classrooms. You can download it for free.

This curricular supplement contains five modules:

1. Foundations of Agriculture

2. Genetic Engineering in Food... Read more

Free DNA barcoding supplies from the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory DNA Learning Center

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Sandra Porter
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The COVID-19 pandemic has likely confounded your life as a teacher and made it difficult or impossible to offer lab experiences to your students. The DNA Learning Center at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is offering exciting opportunities for your students to participate in authentic experiments using DNA sequencing—in spite of school or lab access problems caused by the pandemic. Each includes free supplies for in-class or at-home DNA isolations, PCR and electrophoresis, and free DNA sequencing. Mini-DNA thermal cycler and electrophoresis equipment kits are also available for loan.

The following experiments can be integrated into general or elective biology... Read more

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