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Interpretation and Closure in the Historical Geology Laboratory: "Reading" Nature's Geological Evidence Overcomes Students' Skepticism

This article features a "reading the rocks" lab activity and an earth history essay both of which are important interpretive and creative elements of ...

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DNA Sequencing in Undergraduate Laboratory Courses: Duplicating Current Research Protocols Using Biochemical Methods of Analysis

The basic goal in designing the molecular biology lab was to provide students with exercises that were as representative as possible of current resear...

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Favorite Demonstration: The Brine Shrimp as a Model Organism for Biology—Arthropods Useful in Demonstrating Properties of Organisms

Biology lectures expounding the properties of organisms can easily be enhanced with a living demonstration model organism—the large brine shrimp is ...

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Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues in the Undergraduate Biology Curriculum: Encouraging Student Debate on the Social Implications of Biotechnology

In recent years, ethical questions that require thoughtful deliberation and the making of decisions by all elements of society have been fast emerging...

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Crossing Disciplinary Lines—Bar Codes and DNA Codes: Students Crack the Codes of Digital Technology

In this course, students study bar codes used by the U.S, Postal Service. Once students have a basic understanding of these codes, they compare their ...

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Undergraduate Geology Education—The Carleton College Experience

At Carleton, students who discover geology as sophomores can start majoring by selecting from several courses in the second level and continuing on in...

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Computer Use in the Science Classroom: Proceed with Caution! What Educators Still Need to Learn About Computer Exploitation

Compared with books, black boards, calculators, and overhead projectors, the computer is a very new entity in the classroom. Despite its newness, this...

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Taking Biology Through Creative Writing: Integrating Abstract Biological Concepts into Narrative Contexts Makes Science Come Alive for Apprehensive Nonmajors

In this article, the author developed entertaining creative writing assignments that require all students to provide the story context for their own l...

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Teaching General Biology for Nonmajors Through Community Service Projects

In this article, the teacher reevaluated her teaching techniques and objectives for the general biology course for the nonscience major. In doing so, ...

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Research and Teaching: Where do Ideas for Students Come From? Applying Constructivism and Textbook Problems in the Laboratory Experience

When students are regimented by lab manuals that dictate what to think, how to think, and when to think, lab activities essentially lose impact for le...