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    Genomics Lessons with GEA - RNA-Seq CURES
    Our BIOME Group worked towards developing a set of learning goals for faculty who plan to launch a CURE based on RNA-Seq data. We also developed a workflow for analysis of either prokaryotic or...
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    Learning Frameworks Aid Goal-oriented Course Design
    As a new instructor it can be hard to know where to begin. Thankfully, CourseSource's learning frameworks (https://www.coursesource.org/courses) shaped my approach to teaching as a first year...

    Keywords: backward designlearning goalscourse design

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    BSURP Guided goal-setting workshop for undergraduate researchers
    Lesson plan, slides, and worksheet for a guided research goal-setting workshop. Designed for undergraduates in the Stanford Biology Summer Undergraduate Research Program (BSURP).

    Keywords: undergraduate researchworkshopsgoalsbioBUDS

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    Pivoting Intro from Inquiry to Online
    This poster will present how inquiry-based learning experiences that were designed for face-to-face labs can be modified in a rapid pivot to online teaching.

    Keywords: plant physiologybotanyonline learninginquiry-based learningtranspirationonline labremote

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    Cross-Cultural Virtual Classroom for High School Calculus
    The Covid-19 pandemic has forced institutions to conduct distance learning. Though challenging, this has also created pedagogical possibilities. Students can now experience cultural exchange though...
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    Ciliate Genomics Consortium: a professional learning community sharing modular curricula to support undergraduate research in the classroom
    The Ciliate Genomics Consortium (CGC) employs an integrative teaching and research model that combines both inquiry-driven class laboratory activities and collaborative consortium pedagogies to...
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    OER For CURE Development BIOME 2021 Lightning Talk - YouTube
    Members of the Ciliate Genomics Consortium (CGG) formed a fall working group to brainstorm how to convert existing Course-based Undergraduate Research (CURE) curriculum modules, which have been...

    Keywords: CUREscourse-based research experiences (CUREs)STEM CUREs

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    Using Online Materials/Videos to Enrich Linear Algebra for Scientists
    Part of the 2015 SMB Minisymposium: Topics in Biomathematics Education

    Keywords: courselinear algebrabiology majors

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    2015-Technology_and_the_Mathematics_Curriculum-CUPM_Curriculum_Guide_to_Majors_in_the_Mathematical _Sciences
    What role should technology play in teaching and learning undergraduate mathematics? This issue is addressed.

    Keywords: classroomcurriculumtechnologyCUPM

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    Amylase Copy Number and Diet
    An adapted module from HHMI Spreadsheet Tutorials using amylase data for students to gain data analysis and excel skills

    Keywords: Scientific ProcessStatistics and MathScientific Methodology

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    Calculating Lifetime Cancer Risk Resulting from DNA Replication
    An expanded case study adapted from an HHMI Data Point on Cell Division and Cancer Risk using Figure 1 from Tomasetti, C. and Vogelstein, B. (2015).

    Keywords: cancerScientific ProcessStatistics and MathScientific Methodologybiology of cellscell growth and divisionHigh School

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    QB@CC Poster for NABT 2020
    This is a poster presentation at the 2020 NABT Annual PD Conference. This poster describes the goals of QB@CC project, progress in the first year and an update on the upcoming events.

    Keywords: quant bioQuantitative reasoningcommunity collegesquantitative biologyquantitative skillsincubatorsqbccBiology and Math CollaborationOERsNABT 2020NSF grantRCN UBE grantQB learning modules

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    Creating Phylogenetic Trees from DNA Sequences
    This interactive module shows how DNA sequences can be used to infer evolutionary relationships among organisms and represent them as phylogenetic trees.

    Keywords: EvolutionHHMI BioInteractivephylogenetic tree

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    SCORE - Network for an Open and Accessible Biology Education: The promise of equity and the challenge of sustainability (RCU-UBE Introduction)
    The mission of the SCORE-UBE Network is to help our Network participants achieve their sustainability and broader impact goals by working together to amplify the value and reach of open education...

    Keywords: RCN-UBE Introduction

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    STEMCEL - The STEM Career Exploration Laboratory Network (RCN-UBE Introduction)
    In the STEMCEL network, we propose to synergize students’ learning and training while addressing community issues, where student-driven, course-based, research projects will deliver/develop rapid...

    Keywords: RCN-UBE Introduction

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    BS Inventory assignment
    This is a written assignment with a recommended process and grading rubric to go with the BS Inventory assignment on callingbull.org.

    Keywords: data visualizationprojectdata collectiondata vizcreativitymisinformationreal worldbull

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    Intro videos and terminology for GMOs, Transcription, Translation
    Compiled resources around GMOs and protein production including vocabulary, animations, videos, and games

    Keywords: geneticsagricultureplantstranscriptiongenomesGMOtranslation

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    Investigating Biomes with BiomeViewer
    This interactive classroom activity facilitates student learning about biodiversity through an investigation of biomes (what they are, how they're defined, their global distribution) using a free...

    Keywords: BiodiversityEcosystem EcologyBiomeViewerbiomes

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    Using Online Materials/Videos to Enrich Linear Algebra for Scientists
    Abstract for a talk given on an experiment using MIT’s open courseware linear algebra videos to teach a linear algebra course without prerequisites that targeted biology majors.

    Keywords: videoslinear algebraopen coursewareCamtasia

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    Questions For Biology: Concept Inventories for Biological Concepts
    The Questions For Biology (Q4B) team aims to create validated concept inventories for use in diagnosing student misconceptions, informing teaching practices and tracking learning gains across a...

    Keywords: assessmentConcept inventoriesconcept inventory

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