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Engaging General Biology Students With Learning Contracts
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Students in a general biology class used a learning contract where they selected chapter-relevant activities they could complete through several formats: oral, written, or artistic. The majority of students felt they…
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Using Journal Articles in an Environmental Biology Course
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This article discusses how to use team learning and the interrupted journal case method to promote content, process, and application learning in an environmental biology course. It presents a sample case study on…
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Safer Science: Choose Biological Stains Carefully
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This column provides best safety practices for the science classroom and laboratory. This month’s issue discusses biological stains.
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Mathematics in the Biology Classroom: A Model of Interdisciplinary Education
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This article describes an interdisciplinary course that develops essential mathematical modeling skills within an introductory biology setting. The course embodies recent recommendations regarding the need for…
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Idea Bank: Assessing Basic Knowledge in Biology
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The Science Beliefs Quiz contains items related to biology, physical science, and Earth/space science. The entire test is available free to teachers on the internet and consists of 47 declarative statements that were…
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Research and Teaching: An Experimental Project Approach to Biology
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In the study described in this article, the author examined the educational benefits of an experimental project approach to students taking the last course of the introductory sequence, Biology 103. Educational benefits…
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Nematodes: Model Organisms in High School Biology
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In a collaborative effort between university researchers and high school science teachers, an inquiry-based laboratory module was designed using two species of insecticidal nematodes to help students apply scientific…
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