To develop our Model Builder web tool, BioInteractive worked with Jon Darkow, an educator in Ohio. This Q&A discusses the Model Builder development process and the features he's most excited about.
Our new Interactive Video Builder tool lets educators embed their own questions into our videos. In this Educator Voices article, Annie Prud’homme-Généreux details research-based strategies for designing effective interactive videos.
If you're interested in using facilitated discussions to promote scientific literacy and empower students to make evidence-based decisions, this article from professor Holly Basta details how she restructured her course to promote student questioning and talk.
Liberating Structuresare a set of easy-to-implement ideas for structuring group discussions. In this article, Annie Prud’homme-Généreux, a professor in Canada, details how she pairs these structures with BioInteractive resources.
One big challenge of hybrid teaching was implementing equitable assessments. In this article from Texas educator Lee Ferguson, hear how her team utilized alternative methods of assessment to gauge students' understanding of genetics.
This video shows how a group of students, scientists, and volunteers came together to make hand sanitizer and masks for their community during the COVID-19 pandemic.
If you're interested in modifying our activities for your Multilingual Learners, this article by Rhode Island educator Diana Siliezar-Shields discusses how she scaffolds our resources about metabolic regulation with her students.
The COVID-19 pandemic has spotlighted the importance of having a scientifically literate public. In this article, Pennsylvania educator Bob Cooper unpacks how to utilize BioInteractive's suite of infectious disease resources to teach students scientific literacy.
In order to develop complex scientific explanations, students need to have many opportunities to grapple with a concept. In this Educator Voices article, hear how Amy Fassler uses a sequence of resources in a process called “curriculum spiraling.”
In this video, ecologist Tony Sinclair takes us through the steps of how he uncovered that the eradication of an infectious disease in cattle led to a boom in the Serengeti’s buffalo and wildebeest numbers.
In this article, Tara Jo Holmberg, a professor at Northwestern Connecticut Community College, discusses how she's restructured the beginning of her courses to have students engage in scientific thinking and collaboration.
This video follows biologist Shane Campbell-Staton, who is studying the adaptations that allow deer mice living at high elevations to stay warm and active during the winter.
