During the viewing of each videotape, we employ a cooperative learning approach in which a student is assigned three to five questions. Thus during the video, a student does not need to focus on every question, and can enjoy the show. However, in the following class period, each student presents the questions and answers to the class.
Every student can then obtain all of the important information from the video.
Jeff Goldblum as James Watson contemplates the beauty of the structure of DNA with his colleague Francis Crick. The interactive multimedia program Life Story is available on all computers in your biology classroom. This program is linked to the film, and allows the student to explore the topic in greater depth in any order. Short Quicktime videos from the film can be viewed in addition to a huge bank of information about the science and the scientists who worked so diligently in the early 1950s to discovery DNA structure. A new resource explaining how Watson and Crick and colleagues determined the structure of DNA can be found at DNA From The Begninning at the DNA Learning Center of The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.