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Integrative Biology: A Capstone Course for an Introductory Biology Core
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A capstone to a biology introductory curriculum was developed with the specific goals of enhancing integration of course content, promoting development of oral presentation skills and critical reading and thinking…
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Adding Math to Biology: Teaching the mathematical basis of evolutionary biology
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Without a mathematical understanding of evolutionary theory, we leave students defenseless against shallow arguments and pseudoscience. In this activity, students study normal variation in coral size, and to do the…
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Explanatory Thinking Using Mobile Devices in a Nonscience Majors Biology Course
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This article describes a course redesign to enhance explanatory thinking, engagement in scientific modeling to explain phenomena, application to the real world, and the use of an Explain Everything application as a…
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Outcomes assessment was conducted with a pretest/post-test design in an online nonmajors’ biology course that included laboratory and lecture components. Data were compared with those of students at the same college…
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Introduction to Biological Investigations
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Introduction to Biological Investigations is a course that was developed to introduce the scientific method through practical application. This active, student-centered experience fosters fundamental skills that promote…
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Bolster students' confidence in science through two art-based biology projects described in this article.These successful projects were used in a 10th-grade biology class and focus on immunology and human evolution.…
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MathBench Biology Modules: Web-Based Math for All Biology Undergraduates
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Historically, biology has not been a heavily quantitative science, but this is changing rapidly (Ewing 2002; Gross 2000; Hastings and palmer 2003; Jungck 2005; Steen 2005). Quantitative approaches now constitute a key…
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Biology Education Under the Microscope
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For many students, high school science is biology and our best—and sometimes only—opportunity to impact students’ knowledge of and interest in science generally will remain linked to the quality and nature of biology…
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