Welcome The goal of the Education Center is to provide quality learning materials for educators wishing to teach the science of crop biotechnology and the debate surrounding the safety of genetically modified food crops in the classroom. The Education Center contains lesson plans listed by classroom activity type. Curricula on related topics is grouped and listed in the Curricula by Topic section. Featured items are found in the left margin of the page. We hope you find the Education Center useful and invite you to leave feedback on any item in this section.

Curricula by Topic
Resistance Management	Agricultural Biotechnology Safety
Monarch Butterfly

Student Projects
Student Created Survey on Genetically Engineered Crop Safety Issues	Designing a New Genetically Engineered Food Product
Designing a System to Ensure GE Agiculuture Safety	Creating a Transgenic Plant Pamplet

Teacher Guided Exercises
Resistance and Susceptibility Exercise	Student Debate on the Risk of Bt corn to Monarch Butterflies

Lab Exercises
Plant Breeding and Predicting Offspring Traits	DNA Extraction

Writing Assignments
Position Paper on GE Safety	Case Study on Bt Corn Pollen and The Monarch Butterfly

Interactive Learning
The Refuge Builder	Resistance Evolution Simulation
The Resistance Management Game	Who Wants to Be a Genetic Engineer?
GE Crop Development & Regulatory Timeline

Learning Modules

Antisense Technology

Resources on Understanding Risk
Why Scientists Can Never Prove That Biotech Crops are Safe	Risk as Perception
Risk as Science	The Risk Assessment Paradigm

Selected Biotech Education Sites
The Library of Crop Technology Lesson Modules	UC Biotech.org
Iowa State Biotech Education	Biotech-info.net
Scope Forum	Purdue Agricultural Biotechnology
Monsanto's TeachingScience.org	Dupont Biotechnology