DNA and Protein Builds 

Holly Schiefelbein recognized that students struggled with understanding the process of how DNA is used to build a protein product. To help them better understand the process, she put together a set of resources including, videos, Image Cards with identity sheets, and directed learning materials. She then enhanced these materials with interactive sessions where students were paired off to identify important molecules and describe their processes. The Session concludes with an activity where they collaboratively physically act out the process of gene expression. This process helps the students take abstract information and turn it into a physical representation that they can connect with (and enhance) prior knowledge.    

Check out Holly's very cool UDL Workgroup and Capstone Artifact and resource page to learn more about the materials and activities she created to make Genetic Expression make sense....