Sign up today for the next NSTA Web Seminar in the NSDL Series: Teaching Biotechnology: New Tools and Resources for the STEM Career Pipeline from WGBH Teachers’ Domain. These free seminars provide resources for your classroom and background information for your professional development!

Topic: Biotechnology

Date: February 17, 2010

Time: 6:30pm - 8:00pm Eastern Time

Presenters: Daniella Quiniones, WGBH Teachers Domain Marketing Coordinator and Dr. Lisa Rapp, Chair of the Biotechnology Program at Springfield Technical Community College (STCC), Springfield MA

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Need a way to refresh your lessons in genetics through multimedia resources? Biotechnology is a rapidly growing field that uses research from biology and chemistry to find solutions to current scientific problems. Help students understand how gene cloning, DNA sequencing, and bio-engineering touch their every day lives. From the food we eat, to the drugs we take, and the jobs that we train for, biotechnology is a science for the new millennium.

Join WGBH Teachers’ Domain and a local high school biotechnology teacher in discussing ways to deepen the teaching and learning of biotechnology in your classroom. Learn about some extra-ordinary free resources developed and organized by Teachers’ Domain that cover biotechnology applications, concepts, tools and techniques, and feature career profiles in this promising field. Register today!