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    The 4-Minute Summary: Helping students recall, recap and explain the big picture... and much more!
    Actively engaging students during a lecture class can come through many formats.  The 4-Minute Summary is a versatile pedagogy that can be readily applied to any class format (e.g.,...

    Keywords: active learningDiscussionLarge classSummary

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    Exploring the March to Mars Using 3D Print Models
    With the increased availability of 3D printers and open databases containing 3D print files, academic institutions are giving more thought into how such technology can be used in the classroom to...

    Keywords: waterMarsmicroorganismsproperties of life

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    A Team-Based Approach to Course Development Involving Undergraduate Researchers
    Development of an undergraduate laboratory course can be a challenge, because of the need to balance both logistical and pedagogical considerations. We piloted a team-based approach to developing...

    Keywords: student researchcourse development

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    Metastatic Mastery: A Case and Game-Based Approach to Learning About Cancer Mechanisms
    Mechanisms that contribute to the development of cancer are numerous and complicated, though most can be traced to a set of mutations in cell cycle regulatory genes that throw the process of cell...

    Keywords: mutationcancertranscriptioncell cycletranslationOncogenesTumor-suppressorp53Transcription factor

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    2013-Alicia_Caldwell-Students Rise to the Challenge of Modeling Yeast Growth Despite Sour Hiccups from Imperfect Data
    This paper describes a lab in which students in an Applied Mathematics in Biology course observe the growth of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, a yeast strain, in differing sugar concentrations for use in...

    Keywords: Saccharomyces cerevisiaelogisticyeastdeathgrowthsugaralcohol

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    Data on Dead Zones and a Scientist Spotlight Featuring Benjamin Negrete, Jr.
    In this lesson, students plot data and interpret graphs of the metabolic responses of fish to hypoxic conditions. Then, students view and reflect on an interview with fish ecophysiologist Benjamin...

    Keywords: fishgraphinggraph interpretationhuman-environmental interactionsdata literacysocial justicemarineCODAP

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    Antigen presentation and cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs): elucidating a common roadblock for students
    Active learning resource for pre-Nursing anatomy and physiology lecture explaining antigen presentation to CTLs and how the CTLs recognize and destroy the pathogen using Biointeractive animations...

    Keywords: Resources @ HHMI - BioInteractiveimmune systemAnatomy & PhysiologyCell communication

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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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    An evolution curriculum designed around understanding the rise and spread of drug-resistant pathogens
    Poster on teaching concepts in evolution and data science skills in an upper level Biology elective at Spelman College presented at the 2018 QUBES/BioQUEST Summer Workshop

    Keywords: EvolutionRdata sciencedrug resistanceSummer Workshop 2018

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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.

    Keywords: graphsonline learningmath anxietyonline forummath attitudesResources @ BIOMAAPInterpreting Graphsdiscussion forumComparative genomics

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    Augmented Reality Metabolic Pathways (ARMET)
    The ARMET app is developed using Unity, 3D molecules obtained from Protein Data Bank and ChemSpider-chemical structure database, the usage data are stored into a database (MySQL) and are analyzed...

    Keywords: BiochemistryAugmented RealityMetabolic Pathways

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    Learning with All Your Senses: Mathematical Manipulatives Enhance Student Comprehension of Biological Models
    Handout for a session presentation on kinesthetic learning at the 2019 BioQUEST & QUBES Summer Workshop

    Keywords: Models3D models3D printingmanipulativeskinesthetic learning

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    Exploring Fundamental Concepts of Phage Immunity Systems: A jigsaw activity
    This jigsaw assignment is designed to increase students’ understanding of phage immunity systems
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    2020-TeachingModule-CarSuspension
    The modeling activity on car suspensions assumes that students have grappled with second order linear homogeneous differential equations with constant coefficients.

    Keywords: modulesuspensioncar suspensionsecond orderTeaching Module

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    Promoting Academic Success of Economically Disadvantaged, STEM-Interested, First- and Second-Year Undergraduate Students via the ACCESS in STEM Program at University of Washington Tacoma
    At the University of Washington Tacoma (UWT), a public, predominantly undergraduate, minority-serving institution (Asian-American, Native American, Pacific Islander, AANAPISI), the Achieving Change...

    Keywords: course based undergraduate research experiencesNSF S-STEMStudent mentoring

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    5-012-LinearSystemConjecture-TechniqueNarrative
    Students go from the solution for y'(t) = k*y(t) to a natural extension to the solution conjecture of a system of two constant coefficient, homogeneous, linear differential equations introducing...

    Keywords: discovery learningconjecturesolutionsubstitution

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    Got Milk? Biome 2021 Lightning Talk
    The Got Milk? working group plans to use lactase persistence evolution as a case study to teach genetics in large introductory biology courses. While developing these resources, we will be mindful...

    Keywords: geneticsintroductory biologyundergraduate researchundergraduate educationStudent misconceptionsbiasdiversitylactase persistenceraceBIOME 2021

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    "Reading groups" in an undergraduate biology course: A peer-based model to help students develop skills to evaluate primary literature
    Undergraduates who learn to evaluate primary literature demonstrate an enhanced ability to understand the process of science, weigh scientific evidence, and think critically (e.g. 6,8). Studies...

    Keywords: primary literaturecritical thinkingSelf-EfficacyDiscussionPeer-based Learning

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    Using Collaborative Projects to Promote Active Learning of Microbial Skin Diseases and Their Impact on Everyday Lives
    One of the most daunting aspects of introductory clinical microbiology is learning details about a vast number of different microbial diseases that can infect humans. Each of these diseases has...

    Keywords: infectious diseasecollaborationpathogenesisTreatment of diseasesReal-life Microbiology

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    Problem-Based Learning for Physiology: Synthesizing the Cardiovascular System, Respiration, Macronutrient Metabolism, and Renal Function
    Problem Based Learning (PBL) is a valuable tool for helping students overcome reliance on memorization by scaffolding opportunities for them to practice the competency of...

    Keywords: MetabolismObesityblood pressurecardiac functioncardiovascularmetabolic syndromerenalRespirationrespiratory system

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