Mating Darwin with Dickinson: How Writing Creative Poetry in Biology Helps Students Think Critically and Build Personal Connections to Course Content

Book Chapter | December 2005

Poetry writing is a simple yet effective way to encourage the development of cross-disciplinary connections, creativity, and critical thinking in science students. In other words, by mating ideas and methods from…

It’s About Time: Exploring the dose-dependent effects of active learning on students of different social personalities in an upper-level biology course.

Journal Article | March 2024

Active learning is the new standard for teaching in higher education. As more faculty seek to expand their teaching practices by including active learning activities that promote higher levels of learning, many are…

We have more in common than we think: A comparison of scientific skills and disciplinary practices in the guiding documents for Biology, Chemistry, and Mathematics

Journal Article | September 2024

Students are encouraged to develop a set of scientific skills and disciplinary practices common across the STEM disciplines. These skills (scientific inquiry, quantitative skills, laboratory and computational skills,…

Comparison of Student Success Between High-Clicker and Low-Clicker Frequency in a Large-Enrollment Introductory Biology Course

Journal Article | October 2020

Active-learning approaches have recently been broadly promoted on many campuses, but research is limited on how varying levels of interaction impact student success. The aim of this study was to compare student success…

Biological Diversity

Journal Article | August 2018

Biology of the Southeast

Journal Article | April 2004

A learning community for science students gives participants an opportunity to design and implement a field biology research project. Integrated into the scientific emphasis on ecology, evolution, natural history, and…

The Biology of Food

Journal Article | September 2004

The Biology of Food course—a large lecture course with no laboratory section—is a mixture of kitchen chemistry, post-eating food metabolism, origins of different foods (from crop breeding to evolution), and ecological…

Biology of Women

Journal Article | November 2002

The importance of a course that teaches about the biology of women is discussed. This type of course was developed while the authors attended the Women’s Curricular Reform Institute in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. The…

Integrating Engineering Design in Undergraduate Biology Using a Life Science Design Task

Journal Article | October 2019

This study examines the initial integration of engineering design in an introductory preservice elementary biology content course using a life science design task focused on composting.

An Introvert’s Perspective: Analyzing the Impact of Active Learning on Multiple Levels of Class Social Personalities in an Upper Level Biology Course

Journal Article | February 2020

With calls to reassess higher education teaching methods, active learning practices have quickly become a popular alternative to traditional lectures, especially in STEM courses that traditionally rely heavily on large…

Exploring Cell Biology Through a Silent Teaching Film From 1929

Journal Article | August 2019

Exploring science and history with the Library of Congress