During this interactive tutorial, students will work their way through animations, review questions, and various diagrams to illustrate/animate the process of translation/protein synthesis in a unique and easy to follow manner. This is not a simple PowerPoint presentation where students are shown bullet point main ideas. This PowerPoint is full of creative animations and probing questions that require a student generated answer in order to proceed.

Students will begin with a review of the transcription process. This will lead the students into the role of the ribosome, mRNA, and tRNA in the process of translation. Next, the students will read the genetic code to perform the process of translation and build a protein. The students will conclude this tutorial with a review quiz to check for understanding.

You can preview the entire tutorial from my YouTube channel. The link below will provide a walkthrough the entire slideshow/tutorial.

Watch the free preview

Special Note:

I personally use this tutorial as a way to introduce the process of translation to my students. I have then complete the tutorial before we talk about it as a class. Therefore, I did not include the role of anticodons in this tutorial as I wanted to keep the basic concepts and process simpler. After we complete the tutorial, I then discuss the role of anticodons. I found this to work very well with my students.

This download includes the following files:

1) The interactive PowerPoint tutorial

2) Student worksheet (pdf)

3) Student worksheet (editable Word format)

4) Teacher answer key (pdf)

Common questions I have been asked:

1) Can Chromebooks and Google Slides run this tutorial? The answer is "probably not." I created the tutorial using Microsoft PowerPoint, which is simply more powerful than Google Slides. Much of the interactivity that I created in the tutorial will be lost. Most of the animations that I created will not work. I wish there was a better answer.

2) How do you use this tutorial in your classroom?

- option A: Place the tutorial on your school's LMS for your students to access. My school district uses Google Classroom. So I simply upload this tutorial into Google Classroom and my students can access the file from there.

- option B: Gather a collection of old USB/thumb drives. You can then save the tutorial onto the USB drives and hand them to students as needed.

3) How did you obtain a class set of USB/thumb/flash drives?

Some of the USB drives I purchased years ago for my own needs. However, many were donated by colleagues as many people have extra USB drives cluttering up their drawers at home. A few were donated by students who had extras at home. Just ask around and I bet you can accumulate a small collection.

Are you looking for other DNA based lessons?

DNA Based PowerPoint Presentations:

* DNA and Replication PowerPoint

* RNA and Transcription PowerPoint

* Translation and Protein Synthesis PowerPoint

* DNA Mutations PowerPoint

DNA Based Review Games

* DNA Jeopardy Game

* DNA Bingo Game

* DNA, RNA, Protein Synthesis Challenge Game

DNA worksheets:

* DNA Review Packet

DNA based activities:

* Translation Paper Model Activity

I have many other Interactive Tutorials. Here are links to my others:

• Blood typing
• Endocrine system
• Kingdom Protista
• Mendelian Genetics
• Mitosis
• Meiosis
• Natural Selection
• Organelles of the Cell
• Pathway of Protein Creation
• Phosphorus Cycle
• Sex Linked Inheritance
• Scientific Method
• Transcription
• Translation
• Viruses and the Lytic Cycle

Keywords:

Biology

Life science

Translation

Transcription

Interactive

Tutorial

Multimedia

PowerPoint

Power Point

Ribosome

DNA

RNA

mRNA

tRNA

Computer