The Dolan DNA Learning Center at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory offers educational resources, teachers workshops, funding for teacher/student projects, more: http://www.dnalc.org/. Also here is DNA Interactive, http://www.dnai.org/c/index.html, which has movies of DNA synthesis and other cool stuff.

Snapshots of Science and Medicine: Modern biology for high school classrooms. News, updates and other resources for teachers. http://science-education.nih.gov/newsnapshots/index.html.

DNA in my food?? An easy DNA extraction procedure using little more than bananas, shampoo, salt and alcohol: http://www.biotech.iastate.edu/publications/lab_protocols/DNA_Extraction_Smoothie.html (I've done this with kids 11 years old and up). From Iowa State University Office of Biotechnology

How to extract DNA from anything living http://gslc.genetics.utah.edu/units/activities/extraction/ (University of Utah Genetic Science Learning Center).

Human Genome Project Site has a good section of educational resources: http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/education/education.shtml

Garden Mosaics: a program connecting youth and elders and gardens, also has Science Pages on various topics including various plants, insects, scientific research, etc.
http://www.gardenmosaics.cornell.edu/

National Association of Biology Teachers http://www.nabt.org/

Awesome Library - K-12 Education Directory http://www.awesomelibrary.org/

American Society of Plant Biologists has a compilation of good links for educators, K-12, graduate, and undergraduate http://www.aspb.org/resourcelinks/scripts/cats2.cfm?cat=18

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