Resources by Wellcome Trust
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Make Your Own Mucus and Extracting DNA
Produced by Nowgen, with support from the Wellcome Trust, these resources illustrate two practical activities. One explains how to make 'artificial mucus' and relates it to the mucus produced in the lungs by individuals with cystic fibrosis (CF). The second is an activity sheet with instructions on how to extract...
Making a drug
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Find out how drugs are made, tested and trialled. Learn about the role of technology and simulation in drug making. |
Making sense of statistics
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These articles will help you understand what is meant by different terms, normal distribution, data sets, correlation and significance. |
Produced by the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, these materials help students to understand how malaria is tackled in an area where it is endemic. In this activity students are given a scenario where they are allocated the role of malaria programme managers for a community in a malaria area.
Malaria Life Cycle
From the Wellcome Trust, these animations show the life cycle of the malaria parasite. They illustrate how the parasite develops in the mosquito before being transmitted to a human host following a blood meal.
The...
Meet the Gene Machine
Supported by the Wellcome Trust and developed by the Science Communication Unit at the University of the West of England, Meet the Gene Machine is a fun, creative and comprehensive teaching package allowing teachers and young people to discuss the ethical and social issues inherent in the field of genetics. Each '...
Meet the plants
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Learn about the importance of cellulose, photosynthesis, the enzyme RuBiSCO and the role of different growth factors in plants. |
Model organisms for genetics research
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Learn how some organisms have become vital to research, understand the reasons and discuss the ethical considerations. |
Modelling the helix
This resources provides a template for creating a model of the DNA double helix. The class should collaborate on one model. Each student should make just...
Nano Pairs
Produced by Citizen Science, this resource contains a set of cards that can be printed and used in a 'matching pairs' game. When completed, the pairs pose questions which students consider, around the use of nanotechnology. Suitable for students aged 11-14 the activity introduces students to some of the potential...