Title: Your World/Our World

Description: This student magazine is published twice yearly and covers biotechnology fundamentals and applications in the fields of medicine, agriculture, the environment, and industry.  Each issue focuses on new scientific discoveries in one application area and provides a great mix of science background, applications, interviews, hands-on experiments or activities, and science career information.  A teacher's guide for each issue can also be ordered.  Past issues include "Exploring the Human Genome" (v. 5, #2), "Gene Therapy" (v. 4, #2), and "Environmental Biotechnology" (v. 4, #1).  Various subscription packages are available.  For more information, visit the web site.

Strengths: Each issue contains excellent color illustrations and photographs to support the content.  The magazine is ideal as a supplement to reinforce genetics concepts and bring up discussions of contemporary topics into the classroom.  The ethical implications of progress in genetics research are considered.  Appropriate for both middle and high school levels.

Weaknesses: No classroom assessments are provided.  Due to lack of depth, this magazine is best used as a supplement rather than a primary teaching resource.

Keywords: Biotechnology, inheritance, DNA structure, genes, chromosomes, mutation, bioethics, genetic counseling, medical genetics, human, plant (varies depending on the issue)

Genetics concepts addressed: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 (varies depending on the issue)
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last updated 6/09/00