Research and Teaching: PowerPoint Use in the Undergraduate Biology Classroom: Perceptions and Impacts on Student Learning

Journal Article | December 2018

This article focuses on the use of, and perceptions about, PowerPoint in undergraduate introductory biology classes to understand how PowerPoint composition can best promote student learning.

Evolutionary Biology at the Movies: Analysis of Movie Plots Reveals Importance of Biological Issues to Students

Journal Article | February 1997

This article features a movie project where students rent and watch the movies on their own time. The project reinforced the author's conviction that nonbiology majors are genuinely interested in biology, although they…

A Theme-Based Approach to Teaching Nonmajors Biology: Helping Students Connect Biology to Their Lives

Journal Article | August 2005

This article describes the curriculum for a highly student-centered human biology course constructed around a series of themes that enables the integration of the same basic paradigms found in a traditional survey…

Learning Biology Through Molecular Storytelling

Journal Article | August 2018

A storytelling approach to the connection between 3D shapes of biomolecules and their biochemical and cellular functions

Idea Bank: Explaining Biological Phenomena

Journal Article | August 2010

In this Idea Bank, the author provides two classroom activities that integrate argumentation, explanation, and the use of evidence with biology content. The first example fits within an ecology unit; the second works…

Biomimicry: The "Natural" Intersection of Biology and Engineering

Journal Article | February 2015

Combine standards from engineering and biology while designing technology inspired by nature.

Crossing Boundaries in Undergraduate Biology Education

Journal Article | December 2015

In an effort to make mathematics relevant to biology students, the authors developed two modules that sought to integrate mathematics and ecology instruction to differing degrees. The modules were developed by a team of…

Science 2.0: Gamify AP Biology

Journal Article | October 2013

This column shares web tools that support learning. This month’s issue interviews a biology teacher who has created video screencasts for his "flipped" classes and recently reinvented his Advanced Placement Biology…

A Research-Based Molecular Biology Laboratory

Journal Article | January 2001

In an apprenticeship-style course that mimics experiences in research laboratories and better reflects trends in educational reform, students perform team projects through collaboration with corporate research…

Research and Teaching: Nonmajors' Performance in Biology

Journal Article | October 2003

Effects of student-based initiatives and class size.