1: Extract DNA from strawberries at home or in the classroom. Use our recipe! It's easy. The process uses things commonly available in your home, and it only takes two strawberries.
10 Things To Do On National DNA Day
For fun and learning, we invite you to take a few minutes to explore the links featured here as our picks for "10 Things To Do At Home, Or In The Classroom, On National DNA Day."
1: Extract DNA from strawberries at home or in the classroom. Use our recipe! 
2: Listen to the Director of the NIH explain what a gene is and why genes are important. Dr. Francis Collins has a knack for making complex things easily understood. Listen as he explains what a gene is as part of the handy Talking Glossary of Genetic Terms. Watch an animation, see an illustration, click to related terms like gene.
3: Guess which is bigger in size: The flu virus or a water molecule? The X chromosome or bakers yeast? It's an interactive journey based on size of objects like a grain of rice, a human egg, the flu virus and a carbon atom. Move the magnifier bar and you are on your way into a world that is small and invisible to the naked eye.
4: Meet people who are now working in DNA-related jobs and find your future career in the genomic careers interactive website. Hear people who are now working in DNA-related jobs talk about what they like about their careers. How much do they make? How long did they have to go to school? Is it fun?
5: Go on an interactive trip through the timeline of the human genome. From Mendel’s peas (1865) and Rosalind Franklin’s famous photograph 51 (1952) to the invention of PCR (1983) and the completion of the Human Genome Project (2003).
6: Take a virtual tour of “Genome: Unlocking Life’s Code” exhibition on your personal computer, tablet, or smart phone. Now you can take a virtual tour of “Genome: Unlocking Life’s Code” exhibition on your personal computer, tablet, or smart phone.
7: Watch one of more than a dozen 3-D animated tours of the invisible parts of your cells. Watch a 3-D animated tour of an invisible part of your cells: mitochondria, the nucleus, Golgi bodies and more.
8: Watch one of four HISTORY® videos on the world of genomics. All are recently made and insightful. Watch: Unraveling DNA; Sequencing the first human genome; Making sense of the human genome; and/or Visions of the future.
9: Take a look at a cell from every imaginable angle. Just move it around with your mouse or finger. iCell gives you an interactive 3D view inside of animal, plant, and bacteria cells. A captivating experience.
10: Start your family health history portrait with the easy-to-use and free online website from the “top doc” in the U.S. Still one of the best gifts you can give to yourself, and the people in your family tree. Free from the U.S. Surgeon General.