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  • Making Sense of Sickle Cell Disease

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  • Learning Business Economics and Fermentation by Developing a Method for Producing Yogurt

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  • Is It Food?

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about food. The probe is designed to find out if students use a scientific definition of food to distinguish food items from nonfood items.

  • Health, Literacy, & Poetry

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  • Some Like It Hot

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  • Genetics for All

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    This paper highlights learning supports associated with genetics lessons that were implemented in a urban high school biology classroom. The supports provided access to science content for ELs, students with IEPs, and…

  • Less Text, More Learning

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    English language learners are increasingly entering classrooms using student-centered instruction that places a greater emphasis on spoken language. While active learning is beneficial for a range of student outcomes,…

  • Cells and Size

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the size of cells. The probe can be used to determine whether students recognize how small a cell is relative to other things.

  • Computing in Bioinformatics and Engaged Student Learning

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    The field of biology education—and other science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines more broadly—has witnessed two major shifts in the past decade: (i) the increased awareness of research-based…

  • Understanding “Death”

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  • Sam’s Puppy

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    The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about growth. The probe can be used to determine whether students recognize that growth occurs as a result of cell division, which increases the number…

  • Are We Recognizing the Sheer Power of Mother Nature?

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  • The Role of Question-Asking in Mentoring Undergraduate Research

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    Undergraduate research is a high-impact educational practice for which effective mentoring has been identified as a key factor in determining its success. Some researchers have argued that effective mentors help…

  • Flow in My DNA

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  • Teacher Spotlight: Daniel Delcher

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