Students and teachers
Explore DNA resources and activities suitable for learners aged 5-12 years old.
In this activity, learners discover how genes encode proteins, using a codon wheel and protein profiles.
Methods and Technology
Use a micro:bit to explore how creative coding and sensors can help scientists solve tricky problems in the lab!
Discover how DNA can provide clues to recreate the faces of people from the past.
Science in Society
Discover primary science activities to help students explore everyday science and highlight a diverse range of scientists.
Careers
This hands-on activity allows you to extract the DNA from fruit using household items.
In the Cell
Discover how DNA sequences code for proteins with different roles and functions.
Discover the diversity of bacteria and get creative making your own model bacteria!
Health and Disease
What makes a bird a bird or a mammal a mammal? Grouping creatures together can show what links different creatures together.
Living Things
This hands-on activity allows you to create your own paper model of a DNA double helix.
In this activity, learners make a bracelet of DNA sequence from organisms including a human, chimpanzee, butterfly, carnivorous plant or flesh-eating bacteria.
Make your own edible DNA double helix out of sweets!
