Curriculum

This section provides instructional information and curriculum materials for biotechnology education.

Agricultural and Food Biotechnology

Council for Biotechnology Information
The Council for Biotechnology Information communicates science-based information about the benefits and safety of agricultural and food biotechnology. Its members are the leading biotechnology companies and trade associations.

Plant biotechnology is already helping provide the world with more and better food while protecting the environment. And this new technology holds even more promise in the future. That means better quality of life for real people with real appetites and real needs.

Through our award-winning Web site, the Council for Biotechnology Information is committed to bringing you the facts about these exciting new developments â?" complete with footnotes and hyperlinks to scientific research and other information. That's our pledge to be a credible source of information about plant biotechnology.
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College Awareness and Planning Curriculum

The College Board's CollegeEd Program
Helping your students plan for college success
Students and their families need more information earlier to successfully plan for college. How can you inspire students to think beyond todayâ?"to actively plan for tomorrow? How do you engage students' families in the college-planning process?

CollegeEd is a collaborative academic and career planning curriculum for students, teachers, and parents, designed to empower students with the skills and knowledge to envision their goals and achieve success in higher education. Through a series of engaging lessons, CollegeEd can help your students begin to understand that a college education is possible.

By using CollegeEd, your institution sends out a powerful message: that you believe all students are capable of going to the college of their choice and being successful in college
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Educator Resources

Access Excellence
The site for Health and Bioscience Teachers and Learners.

Access Excellence, launched in 1993, is a national educational program that provides health, biology and life science teachers access to their colleagues, scientists, and critical sources of new scientific information via the World Wide Web. The program was originally developed and launched by Genentech Inc., and in 1999 joined the National Health Museum, a non-profit organization founded by former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop as a national center for health education.
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TeAch-nology - The Art and Science of Teaching with Technology
TeAch-nology - The Art and Science of Teaching with Technology® - represents a vision of teaching in a world driven by technology. Our mission to provide services designed to support educators' in effectively incorporating technology in teaching and learning. Our goal is two-fold: to provide a reservoir of online resources for educators to access at any time and to provide effective tools for designing instruction that are time and energy saving.


TeAchnology.com: The Online Teacher Resource

As a web portal, TeAch-nology.com offers a wide variety of free resources intended to bring educators into the world of teaching with technology. It provides links to valuable and useful information relative to current and best practices in the field of education. A large variety of free classroom materials and support tools are also available.

A team of highly professional educators maintains TeAchnology.com. The team includes a cadre of PreK-12 grade teachers, professors of higher education, leading educational consultants, small business constituencies, and experienced web designers. There is no cost associated with accessing the resources found on TeAch-nology.com. We are able to offer this site as a free service due to our advertising campaign and sponsorship. Visiting sponsorship sites provides support that enables us to continue to offer and maintain this site.
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AAAS - Education Programs for schools, teachers and librarians
The American Association for the Advancement of Science,
"Triple A-S" (AAAS), is an international non-profit organization dedicated to advancing science around the world by serving as an educator, leader, spokesperson and professional association. In addition to organizing membership activities, AAAS publishes the journal Science, as well as many scientific newsletters, books and reports, and spearheads programs that raise the bar of understanding for science worldwide.

AAAS works to develop programs to improve teaching and learning in science and technology.
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Stem Cell Research

StemCellResources.org
For Teachers - Stem Cell Curriculum

Northwest Association for Biomedical Research
'High School Level Unit' explores the scientific and ethical issues involved in stem cell research. Study a model organism, human embryos and stem cells. Learn techniques for obtaining stem cells, policies and regulations. Powerpoints, handouts and background information.
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