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Got Milk? (gotmilk)

Project by group summer2021

We plan to use lactase persistence evolution as a case study (many great resources already available via HHMI, Evo-Ed, NCCSTS) to teach genetics in lecture and to potentially have students determine their personal genomics in lab as an overarching theme in a large introductory biology course. While developing these resources, we will be mindful of how we might approach teaching/learning to avoid racial bias.
Our mission is to improve our approach to teaching genetics in large introductory biology courses (N>200 students) in order to avoid unintentionally reinforcing racial bias.
We will work towards:
- 1. Updating the Evo-Ed Lactase Persistence Case
- 2. Developing case studies on lactase persistence that can be used in an intro biology course, ecology course, and a cell and molecular course so students can effectively space out their learning and have reinforcement of ideas across various biology courses.
- 3. Develop training documents or tutorials that we can utilize for teaching learning assistants and teaching assistants.