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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.

Getting students engaged in learning about the cell cycle can be difficult. In this Educator Voices article, educator Kathy Van Hoeck describes how she uses cancer as an anchoring phenomenon to spark student interest.

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.

Planarians can be used to investigate a variety of biological phenomena like animal behavior, mitosis, taxonomy, and more. In this article from professor Karen Avery, see how she uses this unassuming model organism to teach concepts in cellular biology and genetics.

Liberating Structures are 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.

In this article, see a learning sequence where students explore symbiotic relationships and cell communication in bacteria (quorum sensing) by connecting their prior knowledge regarding ocean ecosystems to their understanding of symbiotic relationships.

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 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.

Today’s world is full of pessimism and cynicism, and our students are bombarded with discouraging messages about the future of the planet. Is there any antidote to such poison? In this message from BioInteractive, hear from Vice President for Science Education Sean B.

Explore what scientific ethics are and how they relate to science as a process with this article from Davenport University professor Melissa Haswell, in which she discusses how she developed a scientific ethics course.