Educator Voices

Hear how experienced science educators are using BioInteractive resources with their students. Discover implementation ideas, lesson sequences, resource modifications, quick tips, and more in this collection of videos and in-depth articles. Browse, search, and filter by format, teaching topic, level, and science topic to find resources relevant to specific courses and student populations.

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Takisha Reece in front of an image of a spreadsheet tutorial.

Spreadsheet Tutorials

Takisha Reece describes how her students use BioInteractive's spreadsheet tutorials to learn how to use spreadsheet applications for data analysis and statistics.

A graph of mean leaf area eaten in an experiment about the effects of introducing beetles into an environment. The graph is a line graph with error bars at each data point.

Using BioInteractive to Generate Assessment Items

Interested in how to embed assessments into your instruction? In this blog post, hear from Wisconsin educator Amy Fassler as she discusses how she embeds formative assessments in a lesson sequence about trophic cascades, including an example claim-evidence-reasoning task.

A bar graph displaying data from an elephant population undergoing heavy poaching.

CSI Wildlife

Perri Carr describes how she uses BioInteractive’s elephant resources to teach concepts ranging from biotechnology to genetics to ecology and conservation.

Jason Crean in front of the Beaks as Tools activity text.

Beaks as Tools

Jason Crean describes how he uses BioInteractive's "Beaks as Tools" activity to supplement understanding of Rosemary and Peter Grant's research on the evolution of the Galápagos finches.

Tim Guilfoyle in front of an image of a Pacific food web with a sea star.

Trophic Cascades

Tim Guilfoyle describes how he uses the BioInteractive short film Some Animals Are More Equal than Others and a claim-evidence-reasoning activity to have his students examine Robert Paine's starfish exclusion experiment.

A scientific figure from a study that investigated the role of p53 in cell cycle regulation

Using the Identify and Interpret Strategy with Data Points

Want a simple but effective strategy for helping students interpret graphs? Check out this blog post by Pennsylvania educator Robert Cooper, who unpacks how to teach students to interpret complex data figures, such as those used in BioInteractive’s Data Points.

Bernice O'Brien in front of a video of an asteroid impact

Finding the Crater

Bernice Brythorne describes how she uses the "Finding the Crater" activity to allow her students to build scientific claims from real-world evidence.

Helen Snodgrass in front of images of DNA and people with different skin colors

Human Skin Color: Evidence for Selection

Helen Snodgrass describes how she uses BioInteractive's The Biology of Skin Color film and "Evidence for Selection" activity to show students how humans have evolved over time.

Amy Fassler in front of a screen shot from the Stopping Mosquito Borne Disease Click & Learn.

Stopping Mosquito-Borne Disease Click & Learn

Amy Fassler explains how she uses BioInteractive's Stopping Mosquito-Borne Disease Click & Learn to introduce the topic of emerging infectious disease in her AP® Environmental Science course.

Mary Wuerth in front of a screenshot from the BCR-ABL Cancer Protein Structure and Function Click & Learn

BCR-ABL Cancer Protein Structure and Function

Mary Wuerth explains how she uses the BCR-ABL Click & Learn to teach the importance of protein structure in understanding how proteins work, and how scientists use that knowledge to design drugs to fight cancer.

Sherry Annee in front of an image from the Bacterial ID Virtual Lab

Bacterial ID Virtual Lab

Sherry Annee describes how she uses the Bacterial Identification Virtual Lab to introduce the concepts of DNA sequencing, PCR, and BLAST database searches to her students.