...., 2014 ). I designed a simulation that uses inquiry and game play to teach high school (grades 9–12) biology students these concepts. The game involves teamwork, decisions about diet, cause and effect of various life events, and data analysis. Educational approaches such as game play and active learning...

...Özlem Yıldırım; Ayla Karataş; Remzi Yıldırım Computer simulations provide students the opportunity to observe and interact in realistic biological experiences. This designed simulation, “The Trio of Genetic Diversity,” made it easier for students to grasp the reasons for genetic diversity. During...

... context, and historical happenstance. Students simulate the evolution of a population of tin cans, based on temperature retention/loss in either arctic or hot desert habitats. Chance and necessity interact in separate lab groups (as isolated populations), based on similar starting organisms. The process...

... populations or communities is also important. I developed a simulation that allows participants to actively explore the value of herd immunity in controlling the spread of infectious disease, first by considering how quickly an entire population may become ill if no one has immunity, and then after...

... developed a hands-on, discussion-based activity for the middle school science classroom to demonstrate biomagnification and connect it to food webs and trophic pyramids. Each student represents an aquatic organism, and together students simulate the consumption and excretion processes in an aquatic food...

... those explanations, or develop a more mechanistic intuition for inheritance and change in the world they see around themselves. Here we put forth all the tools necessary for a class to build a simulation of an evolving population experiencing natural selection from scratch in a Google Docs spreadsheet...

...Lace A. Svec Undergraduate introductory biology students at the university level often struggle to trace movement of matter and energy through catabolic and anabolic processes in biological systems. A sequential guided simulation of cellular respiration and photosynthesis provides students...

... alleviate this problem. In this guided investigation of evolutionary mechanisms, students use LEGO bricks to simulate how mutation, migration, genetic drift, and natural selection can affect the evolution of a population. This exercise was undertaken and assessed with college introductory biology students...

... a cumulative, coherent, and usable understanding of science and engineering.” DNA, proteins, enzymes, genetics, and human disease are taught together through the story of patients with Pompe disease as students engage in a simulated clinical assay and genetic analysis and present their findings in grand rounds...

... Simulation logistic growth model integration biology mathematics In the August 2010 issue of the Notices of the American Mathematical Society , Friedman wrote that he believed “the coming decade will demonstrate very clearly that mathematics is the future frontier of biology and biology...

...Aaron J. Sickel; Patricia J. Friedrichsen Engaging students in a predator–prey simulation to teach natural selection is a common activity in secondary biology classrooms. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate how the authors have changed their approach to teaching this activity from...

... concentration by the dilution. For example, if you start with a sample that is 5 mg/mL NaCl and you dilute it 1:1000, then 5 mg/mL × 1/1000 = 5 × 10 −3 mg/mL, or 5 g/mL. In this lab, we will start with an unknown amount of beads and simulate a serial dilution so that you will be able to visualize what...