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Why Do I Need a Lab Notebook? Teaching Responsible Conduct of Research with CURE Lab Notebooks

There are few instructional tools about data acquisition and management available for undergraduate students. I created this lesson as a Fellow of the Ethics Network for Course-Based Opportunities in Undergraduate Research (ENCOUR) to fill this...

Courses: Microbiology Professional Development and Career Planning Science Process Skills

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Training future faculty in 30 minutes a week: A modular framework to provide just-in-time professional development to graduate teaching assistants

Despite increasing recognition of the need to train the teaching assistants (TAs) teaching the majority of STEM lab sections, very few programs report offering sustained teaching professional development opportunities. Here we present a year-long,...

Courses: Anatomy-Physiology Bioinformatics Cell Biology Developmental Biology Ecology Ecology Genetics Introductory Biology Microbiology Neurobiology Plant Biology Professional Development and Career Planning

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How Many Squirrels Are in the Shrubs? A Lesson Plan for Comparing Methods for Population Estimation

Estimating the population sizes of animals is a key skill for any student interested in ecology, conservation, or management. However, counting animals in natural habitats is difficult, and the many techniques that exist each rely on assumptions...

Courses: Ecology Ecology Introductory Biology Professional Development and Career Planning Science Process Skills

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Workshop Report: Summer 2020 Virtual CRISPR in the Classroom

As innovations and developments in genome editing technologies using CRISPR-Cas systems progress, the need to disseminate relevant knowledge and build skills among the next generation of young scientists in undergraduate classrooms is vital. Our...

Courses: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Bioinformatics Genetics Professional Development and Career Planning

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Leveraging Panel Discussions to Promote Positive Representation, Develop Science Identity, and Shift Stereotypes

The overrepresentation of cis straight white male scientists in examples used in Biology curriculum makes it difficult for students with other axes of diversity (race/ethnicity, gender, sexuality, first-generation college-going, socioeconomic...

Courses: Professional Development and Career Planning

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In-Class Workshops to Teach Introductory Biology Students about Undergraduate Research

Decades of evidence support the premise that undergraduate research experiences are valuable endeavors for science students; however, a lack of knowledge about research and how to get involved can preclude equitable participation. We developed two...

Courses: Professional Development and Career Planning

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Gratitude Interventions in a Biology Course to Foster Student Persistence and Success

College students are experiencing a mental health crisis, which has been further exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. This is problematic because stress and anxiety impede learning. One way to combat stress and anxiety is to focus on gratitude,...

Courses: Introductory Biology Professional Development and Career Planning Science Process Skills

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The BioTAP Professional Development Model: Expanding Empirical Research on Graduate Student Teaching Professional Development

The Biology Teaching Assistant Project (BioTAP) provides a year-long mentoring program for practitioners and researchers of Biology Graduate Teaching Assistant Teaching Professional Development (GTA TPD). The program participants, known as BioTAP...

Courses: Professional Development and Career Planning

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Fostering Student to Student Collaboration Across Institutions in a Protein Centric CURE

Collaboration is an essential component of research because it allows scientists to share expertise and tackle difficult scientific questions. While many undergraduate science courses include inquiry-based or authentic research projects,...

Courses: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Genetics Introductory Biology Professional Development and Career Planning Science Process Skills

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Science “Fails”: A Bank of Historical Examples for Learning From Failure in Science

Learning from failure is critically important to the processes of scientific inquiry, discovery, and invention. However, students are not routinely taught how to reflect on, learn from, and ultimately embrace failure, and relatively few curricular...

Courses: Introductory Physics: Calculus-Based Introductory Biology Professional Development and Career Planning Science Process Skills

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Lateral Transfer Maps as a Metacognitive Tool in First Year STEM Courses

We introduce the Lateral Transfer Map (LTM), a tool for students to actively and visually explore the transfer of ideas, skills, and concepts across concurrent coursework. The LTM is an extension of a concept map, replacing interconnected concepts...

Courses: Professional Development and Career Planning Science Process Skills

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The Lecture-Free Classroom: Teaching students backward design and Bloom's Taxonomy to create their own learning environment

We describe Presentation Enhanced Learning (PEL), a flexible, lecture-free, field-tested teaching format to promote problem-based, active learning in upper-division or graduate biological sciences courses. PEL may be implemented as a single,...

Courses: Introductory Biology Professional Development and Career Planning

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Exploring the Broader Impacts of Science and Society in an Active Learning Environment

Science and society have always been intertwined. Today, scientists are increasingly encouraged to interact with the public by conducting transparent and participatory engaged scholarship, as opposed to the prevailing one-way transfer of...

Courses: Introductory Biology Professional Development and Career Planning Science Process Skills

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Diversifying and Humanizing Scientist Role Models Through Interviews and Constructing Slide Decks on Researchers’ Research and Life Experiences

To maintain recruitment and retention, biology teachers face the challenge of finding relatable role models for their students. Our ever-increasing scientific knowledge has been facilitated by people from many different backgrounds, identities,...

Courses: Professional Development and Career Planning Science Process Skills

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Why Do I Need a Lab Notebook? Teaching Responsible Conduct of Research with CURE Lab Notebooks

Training future faculty in 30 minutes a week: A modular framework to provide just-in-time professional development to graduate teaching assistants

How Many Squirrels Are in the Shrubs? A Lesson Plan for Comparing Methods for Population Estimation

Workshop Report: Summer 2020 Virtual CRISPR in the Classroom

Leveraging Panel Discussions to Promote Positive Representation, Develop Science Identity, and Shift Stereotypes

In-Class Workshops to Teach Introductory Biology Students about Undergraduate Research

Gratitude Interventions in a Biology Course to Foster Student Persistence and Success

The BioTAP Professional Development Model: Expanding Empirical Research on Graduate Student Teaching Professional Development

Fostering Student to Student Collaboration Across Institutions in a Protein Centric CURE

Science “Fails”: A Bank of Historical Examples for Learning From Failure in Science

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The Lecture-Free Classroom: Teaching students backward design and Bloom's Taxonomy to create their own learning environment

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