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Cosme, Lírio, Jr.; Turchen, Leonardo M.; Guedes, Raul Narciso C. – American Biology Teacher, 2020
The use of game activities is spreading in diverse contexts, including stimulating teamwork and creativity, selecting job candidates, and as a teaching aid. Games are recognized as promoting interaction and engagement among children through an abstract challenge, which often results in emotional reactions. We investigated whether a game-based…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Teaching Methods, Entomology, Instructional Effectiveness
Wright, L. Kate; Dy, Grace Elizabeth C.; Newman, Dina L. – American Biology Teacher, 2020
The process of meiosis is an essential topic that secondary and postsecondary students struggle with. The important meiosis-related concepts of homology, ploidy, and segregation can be described using the DNA Triangle framework, which connects them to the multidimensional nature of DNA (chromosomal, molecular, and informational levels). We have…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Scientific Concepts, Textbooks, Biology
Petersen, Joan; Chan, Patrick – American Biology Teacher, 2020
A partnership between a community college biology professor and a local high school teacher was established to engage high school students in authentic microbiology research. High school students isolated actinomycetes from soil samples and tested them for their ability to produce antimicrobial chemicals. They also designed and carried out their…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Authentic Learning, Microbiology, High School Students
Tarasi, Dennis D. – American Biology Teacher, 2020
A consistent challenge for undergraduate instructors is how to properly and objectively assess students who cannot attend regularly scheduled exams. Though many alternatives exist, perhaps the most common strategy is to allow students to take a makeup exam at a different time. Many instructors avoid this option for fear of the students gaining an…
Descriptors: Tests, Scores, Academic Achievement, Undergraduate Students
Wollert, David – American Biology Teacher, 2020
CRISPR (also known as CRISPR-Cas9) is a powerful biotechnology tool that gives scientists unprecedented access to the genetic makeup of all living organisms, including humans. It originally evolved as an adaptive immune system in bacteria to defend against viruses. When artificially harnessed in the laboratory it allows scientists to accurately…
Descriptors: Biotechnology, Genetics, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Science Instruction
Calver, Michael; Fletcher, Douglas – American Biology Teacher, 2020
Data collected in many biology laboratory classes are on ratio or interval scales where the size interval between adjacent units on the scale is constant, which is a critical requirement for analysis with parametric statistics such as t-tests or analysis of variance. In other cases, such as ratings of disease or behavior, data are collected on…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Data Collection, Biology, Science Laboratories
Laranjo, Laura T.; Greppi, Chloe C.; Kosinski-Collins, Melissa S. – American Biology Teacher, 2020
Many undergraduate students pursuing life science majors are not aware of job options outside of medicine and academic research, because many departments stress these as the only primary career pathways. In addition, biology students often do not have many opportunities to develop their science communication and presentation skills due to the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Science, Biology, Skill Development
Quinlan, Catherine L. – American Biology Teacher, 2020
This article explores the need to include the science capital and cultural capital of African Americans in science teaching and offers practical exemplars for inclusion in the K-12 science curriculum. The author discusses ideas in the evolution of culture that contribute to the science content and perspectives of current textbooks and their…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education, Scientists, Science Instruction
Venkatesh, Ishwariya; Makky, Khadijah – American Biology Teacher, 2020
The field of epigenetics is progressing rapidly and becoming indispensable to the study of fundamental gene regulation. Recent advances are redefining our understanding of core components that regulate gene expression during development and in human diseases. Scientific knowledge on the importance of epigenetic regulation is now well known and…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Genetics, Science Education
Raven, Sara; Cevik, Emel; Model, Michael – American Biology Teacher, 2020
Although research and new technologies have introduced different ways of observing microorganisms, including scanning and electron microscopy, these methods are expensive and require equipment that is typically not found in a middle school classroom. The transmission-through-dye technique (TTD; Gregg et al., 2010), a new optical microscopy method…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Biology, Middle School Students
Rain-Griffith, Liz; Sheghewi, Sarah; Shusterman, Gwendolyn P.; Barbera, Jack; Shortlidge, Erin E. – American Biology Teacher, 2020
There have been multiple national calls for curricular reform in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), including a need to instill democratic skills in students. Democratic skill building can be embedded in STEM classrooms through intentional "deliberative pedagogies" that include communication, collaboration, and…
Descriptors: Biology, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Democratic Values
Rillero, Peter; Soykal, Ali Kozan; Bicer, Alpay – American Biology Teacher, 2020
Problem-based learning via virtual exchange affords opportunities for students to learn biology while developing abilities to learn about and work with diverse others. We describe an activity using these methods, with goals for students to develop useful cell structure analogies, analyze how analogies are not perfect representations of target…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Science Instruction, Biology, Cytology
Schultheis, Elizabeth H.; Kjelvik, Melissa K. – American Biology Teacher, 2020
Authentic, "messy data" contain variability that comes from many sources, such as natural variation in nature, chance occurrences during research, and human error. It is this messiness that both deters potential users of authentic data and gives data the power to create unique learning opportunities that reveal the nature of science…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Scientific Research, Science Instruction, Scientific Principles
Fiebelkorn, Florian; Puchert, Nils; Dossey, Aaron T. – American Biology Teacher, 2020
The ability to make criteria-based and thought-out decisions in everyday life as well as to answer questions pertaining to society at large, such as those regarding climate change and the loss of biodiversity, is becoming more and more important against the backdrop of an increasingly complex world with a wide range of options for action or…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Data Use, Decision Making, Sustainability
Ragosta, Summer; Potter, Daniel; Bartosh, Heath – American Biology Teacher, 2020
We present results from the first year of a three-year extramurally funded project involving a partnership between an ethnically diverse urban high school and professional research botanists. The goals are to provide students exposure to real-world science, broaden interest in scientific fields of study, and increase floristic data and herbarium…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Biology, Science Instruction, Science Careers