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Science Sampler: The biological budget
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Students often have difficulty grasping the complexity of ecosystems and the importance of biodiversity. The following activity applies students’ creativity and basic math skills to creating a sustainable and diverse…
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Favorite Demonstration: Biological Membranes
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This demonstration provides an excellent example of how eukaryotic cells are compartmentalized and how important the bilipid layer of the endomembrane system is in providing this sectioned architecture. This…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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Learning Biology Through Molecular Storytelling
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A storytelling approach to the connection between 3D shapes of biomolecules and their biochemical and cellular functions