Advanced Computing for Science Education (ACSE)

Lesson 1: Sea Urchin Gastrulation

This lesson examines a process in early development that is common to many organisms, where cells adopt certain roles and migrate to appropriate locations in the embryo in order to fulfill those roles. This lesson is 51 pages long, and in addition to text contains 15 high resolution images and figures, 4 movies, 6 simulations, 18 fragments of simulation code, and 17 review questions.

This lesson requires the ACSE Software, QuickTime, and a color Macintosh with a hard disk and at least 8 MB of memory.

You may download a copy of this lesson that is optimized for a 16-bit or 32-bit color macintosh. The size of this file is approximately 6 MB. It is a binhexed self-extracting archive.

You may download a copy of this lesson that is optimized for an 8-bit color or greyscale macintosh, The size of this file is approximately 5 MB. It is a binhexed self-extracting archive.

Note: To view the stereo 3d images in this lesson, wear a pair of 3d glasses with a red lens over your left eye, and a green or blue lens over your right eye.

Lesson 2: Gradients, Gene Expression, and Pattern Formation: The Early Development of Drosophila Melanogaster

This lesson examines the way that gradients of molecules produced by the mother and stored within the unfertilized egg can result in differences among embryonic cells and the generation of patterns in the organism. This lesson is 55 pages long, and in addition to text contains 23 high resolution images and figures, 3 movies, 7 simulations, 10 fragments of simulation code, and 10 review questions.

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