HHMI DVD Curriculum

Since 1993 the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, HHMI, has produced a lecture series called Holiday Lectures on Science. The lectures are presented annually for high school students and teachers by some of the world's leading research scientists. They are designed to inspire students to pursue careers in the life sciences. The lectures are webcast live at the HHMI website and available by streaming video after the event. Videotapes and DVDs are produced a few months after the event and are available free to educators at the HHMI Biointeractive website.  During the 2002-2003 school year HHMI sought high school teachers who would pilot the DVDs released that year, The Meaning of Sex: Genes and Gender and 2000 and Beyond: Confronting the Microbe Menace.  Piloting teachers were asked to use the DVDs in their classrooms and devise lesson plans that incorporated lecture information. Four high school science teachers from the Corvallis school district participated in this first phase of developing classroom materials "for teachers, by teachers". Lesson plans developed by piloters have been posted on the HHMI website for other teachers to use in conjunction with the DVDs. Microbe Menace Lesson Plans     
 
Sex Determination Lesson Plans
Two Corvallis teachers, along with a cohort of educators from across the country piloted two more lectures during the 2003-2004 school year; 
Clockwork Genes: Discoveries in Biological Time
and
Scanning Life's Matrix: Genes, Proteins, and Small Molecules. 
 
     Visit the HHMI Online Catalog for more resources available to science educators.