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    Geography and Embodied Perceptions: a pathway to reanimating rivers through lived experiences.
    In this lesson students embark upon a journey through the many ways we come to know a watershed, with foci on its physical geography and our embodied perceptions. This enables students to formulate...
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    Mechanisms of Cell Attachment
    This module introduces the calculation of refractive indices along a cell surface in the context of understanding the attachment of cells to surfaces. It is intended for an introductory biology...
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    COVID-19: On the way to a vaccine
    This multi-part case study introduces the reader to the SARS-CoV-2 virus origins, the molecular basis of the infection, the development and severity of symptoms, and treatment.
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    Understanding COVID-19 Biology to Design a Vaccine
    This multi-part case study introduces the reader to the SARS-CoV-2 virus, replication, and treatment. Additional worksheets introduce students to bioinformatics tools of 3-D protein visualization...
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    Mentoring Pacific Island Students for Conservation
    This undergraduate internship program focuses on mentoring Pacific Island Students into conservation careers through development of skills, networks and sense of self, while being grounded in...
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    Graphing and mapping patterns of air quality in Los Angeles, California through an environmental justice lens.
    Air quality is an environmental issue that impacts everyone in Los Angeles. This activity presents current popular press articles about air pollution and environmental justice and maps and graphs...
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    DNA and Knot Theory
    This module introduces knot theory in the context of understanding the packing of DNA. It is intended for an introductory biology audience.
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    Module 1: Discovering Your Family's “Botanical History.”
    We all know that understanding family history is important to understanding our place in the world. To help students learn to appreciate plants, this activity will connect family memories to...
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    Making Predictions with Linear Models: A Murder Mystery Case Study
    This Swirl lesson will introduce two main concepts to students: 1) the idea of uncertainty around linear slopes versus individual values and 2) predicting values using linear models.
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    Redlining and Climate Change
    Redlining was a racist, legal practice and its impacts are measurable in terms of environmental variables in US cities today. This resource examines redlining, urban environments, and climate change.
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    (Online) Figure of the Week: Skills for Interpreting Comparative Genomics Figures
    Students use their number sense to make observations and explain or guess at patterns shown, discussing in a weekly online Q&A forum.
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    Introduction to Data Management and Metadata using NEON aquatic macroinvertebrate data
    This lesson focuses on understanding metadata, the data about the data, using aquatic macroinvertebrate abundance and species information from a variety of NEON sampling locations.
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    Biological Diversity in Wetlands: Applying the Scientific Method
    An introduction to the Scientific Method for Introductory Biology students using plant and animal richness and environmental data from ephemeral ponds and permanent wetlands.
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    The Edge Effect
    This module has students venturing outdoors to take a 50m transect and collect abundance data on plants utilizing quadrats in both edge and interior environment. Mathematically the goals of this...
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    A Tough Choice in Watershed Management
    In this Team-based activity, students work in teams, playing the role of natural resource managers who must decide in which region to invest limited funding for nutrient reduction in streams....
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