Life's Greatest Miracle
This website developed by NOVA allows the student to stream the video entitled Life’s Greatest Miracle, which is the sequel to the “Miracle of Life.” Lennart Nilsson is the videographer of both videos, but the newer version not only has more up-to-date videos and graphics, the scientific content is also completely updated (and narrated by John Lithglow). The entire video can be watched in short segments, which are between 5-10 minutes long. WARNING: Content is sensitive.
There is a teacheru2019s guide to the program http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/teachers/programs/2816_miracle.html that includes objectives, viewing ideas, classroom activities, ideas from other teachers, related NOVA resources and an interactive for students. Depending on how the teacher introduces sexual reproduction in the classroom, the segments or video in its entirety can be utilized. There is a wonderful animation on meiosis in the first chapter entitled, Passing on your DNA. Here there are direct explanations of the relationship between genes, chromosomes, proteins and hereditary traits.
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