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Not to mention akin to shooting fish in a barrel....

Watch we don't go hunting dolphins

ocker dolphins???? now is that a new species girls???

Hi Pam Did you survive yesterday?

Welll. I DID ... I just didnt do it all.
Just as you suggested - I said 'NO' a few times - you should have seen the shocked looks!!!
BUT as we all know, what you don't do follows you day after day after...
Maybe i will catch up with everything - in the year 2012 perhaps!

Thanks everyone for all the suggestion.
It is actually the year 10 students that go to learning support and they have to make a model of the dna. Learning level is a bit hard to guess. I think the learning support staff were after 3 dimentional pictures to show the students what they might like to do as well as explain in a simplified manner what DNA is.
Kristin, what was the name of the scholastic book? Sometimes the support department look for resources.
Rosalie, I think you were right about the dna extraction part of the web site I was looking for because I have a photocopy of that prac that I also use for the bio class but I cut off the web link, unfortunately, but I will do a google search with that.
Thanks again.
Estelle

P.S. Hope everyone got the recognition that your rightly deserved for the past SAS recognition week. We didn't rate a mention from the rest of the staff here but the P & C gave us all a small thankyou card and a nice candle. Unfortunately the GA missed out, ( he was a bit peeved) so I gave him chocolate instead.

Estelle, there are some cute web sites that tell you how to make DNA models out of lollies, toothpicks and straws etc. CSIRO also sells cardboard cut-out DNA models out of its Double Helix Club resources. Kids have to cut out 1 million pieces, and have step-by-step instructions on how to put them together. Could be good. I will check with the Library about the scholastic book. If you actually phone the Scolastic reader advisors, they are very helpful.