...Rebecca Higgins; Breen Riley; Jennell Talley; Alessandra Barrera; Jennifer Hurst-Kennedy; Shoshana Katzman To reduce the cost of educational materials needed by students, we generated a no-cost open educational resources (OER) textbook for an undergraduate level cell biology course. Cell biology...

... for modifying WTL assignments that were originally developed for small undergraduate biology classes (24 students) for use in large introductory cell biology courses (>80 students). Students explore a socioscientific issue (cancer treatment) intended to engage them. Students learn content through reading...

... and Understandings/Success Skills Students engage in science practices to learn key genetics, cell biology, and heart anatomy content (for alignment to NGSS, see Table 2 ). Challenging Problem/Question Entry event: Introduction of the Marcus case through discussion of initial symptoms; students engage...

... for incorporating TBL into an undergraduate cell biology course using cystic fibrosis (CF) as a theme is described. Class content is divided into modules. Each module consists of (1) out-of-class video viewing and reading assignments; (2) individual and team assessments, mini-lectures, and think-pair-share...

... period. Undergraduate research cell biology molecular biology yeast microtubules I designed a lab course that is a companion for a typical, one-semester undergraduate course in cell and molecular biology (BIO-320) at Bay Path University. This is a 300-level course typically taken by juniors...

...://www.ucpressjournals.com/reprintinfo.asp . 2014 Cell biology image library teaching “Are all mitochondria orange?” “Are nuclei always purple?” “Ribosomes must be all the same size and shape.” Perhaps all science teachers have heard similar statements and questions in their own classrooms. We may at first...

...DorothyBelle Poli; Matthew Fleenor; Matthew Rearick Collaboration between two biologists and a physicist resulted in the example of tattooing being used as a motivator to support discussion across several scientific fields (cell biology, microbiology, human health, and physics). Although often...