Science Friday: Produced through NPR has had a month of great shows on genetics. 

• April 8, 2008: Genetic testing: How are genetic tests being used in the health care field?
• February 22, 2008: What makes stem cells stem cells?
• October 14, 2005: The Perfect Person.  This one students will really like!!!!

At the above websites you can read more topic details and you should be able to download and play those broadcasts in the classroom with a computer and some small speakers.  This is a great resource to current and engaging news that you can use in your classroom!

Intelligent Design

• Show Me the Science by Daniel Dennett  August 28, 2005 New York Times.  The title really says it all!  Professor Dennett cuts to the heart of the matter regarding the issues that underlie intelligent design.  The article originally appeared in the New York Times.
   
• Intelligent Design? a special report reprinted from Natural History magazine
  • Our universe: Designed or evolved? A lesson based on the article above by Ronald Brian Watts, Ph.D. Professor CEGEP De La Gaspesie et Des Iles, Gaspe, QC, Canada

Genetics

• Expressing Our Individuality, the Way E. Coli Do. from the New York Times Science Section, April 22, 2008.
• REALLY?; The Claim: Identical twins have identical DNA. from the New York Times Science Section, March 11, 2008.
• Prosecutors to retry twin in case marked by DNA limits. from the Boston Globe, August 26, 2005.

Stem cell research

• National Institutes of Health web site on Stem cell information

Evolution/extinction

• Cornell conservationists propose allowing wild animals to roam parts of North America       
  By Krishna Ramanujan             Cornell News Service Aug. 17, 2005