The Educator Resource Library contains both new and modified resources connected to BioInteractive content. All these resources were added by members of the BioInteractive Online Community — educators just like you!
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This adaptation was used to help non-majors (first year, second semester) students gain familiarity with Google Sheets and learn new quantitative skills using a data set illustrating an engaging and personally relevant biological phenomenon.
Use the Central Dogma/Fixing Gene Expression cards WITHOUT labels BEFORE students have learned the content and have them try to figure it out, use their questions to guide the learning. Then have them add to it and change it as they learn more.
This resource provides slides and pause points to implement a scaffolded investigation of the dynamic equilibrium model of island biogeography over two class periods, with simplifications for the second part of the activity.
This activity uses the film "Some Animals are More Equal Than Others, coupled with foodweb modeling to learn about foodwebs, trophic cascades and keystone species.