Michele C Morris,Madelene Loftin,Malcolm Parker et al.
Michele C Morris et al.
Bioinformatics and computational biology have become indispensable in modern biological research, yet introductory resources remain scarce. FILTERED, an innovative online educational tool that introduces high school students to fundamental ...
Phage Hunting in the High School Classroom: Phage Isolation and Characterization [0.03%]
噬菌体猎人在高中课堂上的实践：噬菌体的分离与鉴定
Charles Bittle,Kathryn Brittain,Sarah M Doore et al.
Charles Bittle et al.
National science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education emphasizes science practices, such as hands-on learning. We describe a week-long activity where students participate in real-world scientific discovery, including "hunting...
Blood Sugar Balance: A Glucose Metabolism Web Game for Diabetes Education [0.03%]
血糖平衡：糖尿病教育葡萄糖代谢网页游戏
Atom J Lesiak,Joan C Griswold
Atom J Lesiak
Blood Sugar Balance (BSB) is an accessible web-based game, created as an extension of our federally funded type 2 diabetes curriculum for high school biology classrooms. Modeling of complex systems and diseases, like metabolism and type 2 d...
Exploratory Activities for Understanding Evolutionary Relationships Depicted by Phylogenetic Trees: United but Diverse [0.03%]
探究系统发生树所描述的进化关系的理解探索活动：统一但多样
Erin L McCULLOUGH,Lauren Verdeflor,Alaina Weinsztok et al.
Erin L McCULLOUGH et al.
Evolution explains both the unity and the diversity of all organisms, and developing students' ability to represent and communicate evolutionary relationships is an important component of a complete biology education. We present a series of...
Caryn Babaian,Sudhir Kumar
Caryn Babaian
We present a drawing discovery lab that crosscuts multiple disciplines in biology and links concepts in genetics and evolutionary thinking to enhance understanding of the genotype-to-phenotype transformation. These combined concepts are als...
Caryn Babaian,Sudhir Kumar
Caryn Babaian
Evolutionary evidence is important scientific background for appreciating the theory of evolution. We describe a STEAM-based lesson plan that uses paleontological drawings and a modern evolutionary database to explore and understand fossil,...
Dina Drits-Esser,Molly Malone,Nicola C Barber et al.
Dina Drits-Esser et al.
Epigenetics is the study of how external factors and internal cellular signals can lead to changes in the packaging and processing of DNA sequences, thereby altering the expression of genes and traits. Exploring the epigenome introduces stu...
Microbes As Friends, Not Foes: Shifting the Focus from Pathogenesis to Symbiosis [0.03%]
化敌为友：从致病到共生微生物研究的转变
Sheila A Homburger,Dina Drits-Esser,Molly Malone et al.
Sheila A Homburger et al.
Until about two decades ago, the standard method of studying a microbe was to isolate it, grow it in culture, stain it, and examine it under a microscope. Today, new genomic tools are helping expand our view of the microbial world. Instead ...
Adventures in Evolution: The Narrative of Tardigrada, Trundlers in Time [0.03%]
进化的奇妙旅程：缓步动物亚门的故事时光中的缓行者
Caryn Babaian,Sudhir Kumar
Caryn Babaian
A lesson plan on the phylum Tardigrada is presented in a storytelling workbook that introduces the evolutionary concepts of adaptive radiation, speciation, divergence, and "tree-thinking" through narrative, transitional art, contemplative c...
Adrienne Alaie,Virginia Teller,Wei-Gang Qiu
Adrienne Alaie
Since biomedical science has become increasingly data-intensive, acquisition of computational and quantitative skills by science students has become more important. For non-science students, an introduction to biomedical databases and their...