Bioinformatics in High School Biology

During the 2010 meeting of the ISCB Education Committee a major topic of discussion was how to get bioinformatics integrated into high-school biology classes. This page records the resulting discussion as well as links to site of interest to those involved in teaching bioinformatics at the secondary school level.

PLoS Collection - Bioinformatics: Starting early

• Bioinformatics at the Secondary School Level

Links to Resources

The following may prove useful to secondary school educators and students looking for information on Bioinformatics teaching tools.

Europe

• European Bioinformatics Institute's - bioinformatics educational resource

• Netherlands Bioinformatics Centre: Bioinformatics @ School

• CusMiBio, University of Milan, Italy

US

• BSCS: A Science Education Curriculum Study

• High School Student Bioinformatics Labs @ Whitehead Institute

• Center for Computational Research: University of Buffalo

• DNA Learning Center at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

• Harvard University Life Sciences/HHMI (see Microbiology→Lesson Plans→Recreating the Tree of Life Using Bioinformatics)

• Northwest Association for Biomedical Research

• Science Outreach at Washington University in St. Louis

Canada

• The Educational Facilities of the Michael Smith Labs, Vancouver BC

Discussion threads

• Resources for bioinformatics in AP Bio (2011/07/23)

• Adding bioinformatics to AP Bio (2011/02/05)

• Summary of the meeting (2010/07/13)

• Advanced Placement Bio changes announced (2011/01/08)

• Scoring system used by the AP biology (2010/07/29)

• High school stem cell curriculum (2010/07/31)

• HHMI 2010 holiday lectures on science (2010/09/08)