title: Using pool noodles to teach mitosis and meiosis.
abstract: Although mitosis and meiosis are fundamental to understanding genetics, students often find them difficult to learn. We suggest using common "pool noodles" as teaching aids to represent chromatids in classroom demonstrations. Students use these noodles to demonstrate the processes of synapsis, segregation, and recombination. Student feedback has been overwhelmingly positive.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. john.locke@ualberta.ca
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Locke
authors.forename: Heather E
authors.initials: HE
authors.lastname: McDermid
mesh_terms: D002875:Chromosomes / Q000235:genetics*; D003582:Cytogenetics / Q000193:education*; D008540:Meiosis / Q000235:genetics*; D008938:Mitosis / Q000235:genetics*; D008957:Models, Genetic