Parents in our Bringing Science Home program have sent in the following suggestions, activities, books, websites, and other recommended resources. Give them a try!

ACTIVITIES & SUGGESTIONS

1. With Cell Funwork: try using Ivory dishwashing soap instead of hair gel; the soap is probably cheaper. Don't add water unless you want a lot of bubbles as a demonstration of what might happen to a cell in outer space. (submitted by Recbecca and Luisa)

BOOKS

• DNA is Here to Stay (Cells and Things), by Frances R. Balkwill
  Cells, by Jeanne DuPrau

• The Cell Works: An Expedition into the Fantastic World of Cells, by Patrick A. Baeuerle and Norbert Landa

• Baa! The Most Interesting Book You'll Ever Read About Genes and Cloning, by Cynthia Pratt Nicolson and Rose Cowles

• Genetics: A Conceptual Approach, by Benjamin Pierce

• Different Stages Through the Ages (textbook), published by Educational Development Center, Inc.

• Apologia Biology, by J.L. Wile

• Lyrical Life Science, Volume I (songs), by Doug Eldon

WEB SITES

• www.cellsalive.com: This website represents over 25 years of experience capturing film and computer-enhanced images of living cells and organisms for education and medical research. A link to a video library provides producers with a range of subjects, and includes both live recording and computer animation. A variety of immune cells, bacteria, parasites, and aquatic organisms are available for licensing for educational, broadcast, and commercial use.

• www.denniskunkel.com: This photography website includes over a thousand microscopy images photographed with electron microscopes. It includes biological images, medical images and many other images of scientific subjects.

• www.discover.com: The website of the magazine of scientific discovery. You can download articles for a dollar apiece.

• genscope.concord.org/: This site is a learning environment that uses the computer to provide an alternative to text-based science education. It provides teachers and learners with a new tool that enables students to investigate scientific and mathematical concepts through direct manipulation and experimentation.

• www.biology.arizona.edu/the_biology_project/the_biology_project.html: The Biology Project is an interactive online resource for learning biology developed at The University of Arizona. The site is richly illustrated, and has been tested on thousands of students. It has been designed for biology students at the college and high school level, but is useful for medical students, physicians, science writers, and all types of interested people.

• www.Brainpop.com: This site offers educational animated movies for grades K-12 to explain concepts in a voice and visual style that is accessible and entertaining to both children and adults.

• www.Biologymad.com: This privately-developed site is targeted at students studying biology.

• www.actionbioscience.org: This educational site was created to promote bioscience literacy among its users. The site provides articles by scientists, science educators and science students on issues related to seven bioscience challenges: environment, biodiversity, genomics, biotechnology, evolution, new frontiers in science, and bioscience education.

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Bringing Science Home was funded by a grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and sponsored by the Cable Natural History Museum and the Science Museum of Minnesota. Partners include the Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute and the University of Utah Genetics Science Learning Center.