2025 Baxter Symposium Session

Presenter: Marnina Thompson, Schaumburg High School

Play to learn and learn to play! Join us to play with the 3-D Molecular Designs Flow of Genetic Information Kits. See how this modeling kit allows students, including beginning language learners, to construct understandings of DNA structure, and the processes of DNA Replication, Transcription, and Translation. We will share how we scaffolded activities using the Flow of Genetic Information kits to allow learners to construct their understanding. We will also share some of the student created stop motion videos that demonstrate their learning. While this session will focus on how we use the Flow of Genetic Information Kits with our college prep level biology classes, our bilingual biology classes, and our language learners, you can scaffold the expectations for any level of biology.