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Welcome to the CLSE Resource Portal for Scientific Teaching - CWIS
Dec 21, 2016 
Welcome!CLSE is excited to introduce the Resource Portal for Scientific Teaching.Designed to help all CLSE community members share resources for scientific teaching and to provide ideas for student-centered approaches to undergraduate biology instruction, here in the portal you can find a large collection of instructional resources, ranging from images, videos, and podcasts to tested and polished lesson packets covering a vast variety of topics in Biology.Click the links below for a video tour and for information about how the portal can become one of your most essential instructional tools!Take the Virtual TourQuick Portal Features Overview |
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Scientific Teaching on the CLSE Resource Portal
Dec 21, 2016 
https://clse-cwis.asc.ohio-state.edu/scientific_teaching_CWISScientific teaching aims to teach student how to conduct science instead of just teaching about science. It also serves as a challenge to instructors to, "...bring to teaching the critical thinking, rigor, creativity, and spirit of experimentation that defines research," (from Handelsman, Miller, and Pfunds' "Scientific Teaching" pg. 1).Follow the link above for a more in-depth description of scientific teaching as well as for information about how we in the Center for Life Sciences Education at The Ohio State University are working to integrate scientific teaching into our lectures, our labs, and our recitation activities. |
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The College Science Learning Cycle
Dec 21, 2016 
In this recent essay in the CBE - Life Sciences Education Journal, Dr. Michelle Withers describes the College Science Learning Cycle, which provides instructors who are interested in transforming passive lectures into active learning-based sessions with a consistent, structured approach to constructing teaching materials in a time-efficient manner.Read the full article by clicking HERE or visit https://www.lifescied.org/doi/10.1187/cbe.15-04-0101 |
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iBiology Scientific Teaching Video Series
Nov 2, 2016 
"iBiology's mission is to convey, in the form of open-access free videos, the excitement of modern biology and the process by which scientific discoveries are made. Our aim is to let you meet the leading scientists in biology, so that you can find out how they think about scientific questions and conduct their research, and can get a sense of their personalities, opinions, and perspectives. We also seek to support educators who want to incorporate materials that illustrate the process and practice of science into their curriculum." - www.ibiology.org/about-us/mission.htmlAs part of this collection, the iBioEducation section is a set of videos and other materials that serves to support undergraduate biology instruction. This collection includes video lectures. clips, and even short courses, including a short-course video series on Scientific Teaching and active learning. Just search "ibiology" to find a list of all the portal resource listings for iBiology.org....and click HERE to find the iBiologyEducation Scientific Teaching Series: Active Learning module resource page. |
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Resources for Metacognition
Apr 6, 2016 
https://clse-cwis.asc.ohio-state.edu/metacognitionresources Do you ever wish that your students were better able to assess themselves in order to improve their learning? If so, then follow the link above to learn about the various resources CWIS has regarding metacognition as well as ideas for how to implement them in your classroom. |
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A "How-To" Guide for CWIS Users
Apr 6, 2016 
https://clse-cwis.asc.ohio-state.edu/how-to-CWIS-guideFollow the link above to access a simple, straightforward How-To guide that explains the most common CWIS functions. |
New Resources
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The Bacterial Identification Virtual Lab
Description from the website:The purpose of the lab is to familiarize you with the science and techniques used to identify different types of bacteria based on their DNA sequence. Not long ago, DNA sequencing was a time-consuming, tedious process. With readily available commercial equipment and kits, it is now routine. The techniques used in this lab are applicable in a wide variety of settings,... |
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| https://www.biointeractive.org/classroom-resources/bacterial... | ||||
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Cell Cycle Regulation and Cancer
In this activity, students will use an HHMI Biointeractive module to review the eukaryotic cell cycle, key players that regulate the cycle, and applications to cancer. The first part of the activity focuses on going through the module and drawing out the key cell cycle regulators on to a figure of the cell cycle. The second part of the recitation has the students interpret a graph depicting the... |
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| https://go.osu.edu/zimmercellcycleregulation | ||||
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Chemistry of Cellular Respiration
In this activity, students will apply their knowledge of basic chemistry to logic their way through the energy transformations occurring in cellular respiration. The first part of the activity displays the glycolysis and pyruvate processing pathways with a simplified version of carbon intermediates. Students will have to work in their groups to figure out the steps and energy carrying molecules... |
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| https://go.osu.edu/zimmercellularrespiration | ||||
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Macromolecules of a Snickers Bar
Macromolecules are the biological name for nutrients that are in our food. These nutrients are critical for basic cell functions. We know that we must eat to maintain a healthy body. In BIO 1113, we learn the roles of the macromolecules in cell function. Tying together the macromolecules to something as simple as a Snickers Bar may help to make connections to the importance of the... |
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| https://buckeyemailosu-my.sharepoint.com/:u:/g/personal/carr... | ||||
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Symbiosis Recitation
Group recitation activity designed to facilitate discussion among groups about the different forms of symbiosis. Designed to take up about 20 min of class time. |
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| https://osu.box.com/s/b5k9h7syjzmq4nsbfvnmwlyhgs28ghpj | ||||
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SEA-PHAGES Worksheets
These are a series of workshops designed to help students connect biological concepts from lecture to the SEA-PHAGES lab experience. |
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| https://osu.box.com/v/SEAPHAGESworksheets | ||||
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Biodiversity Conservation and Decision Making
The purpose of the activity is to make students consider several factors (discussed in lecture and lab during the semester) when it comes to biodiversity, ecology, and conservation. Goals: Our main objective is to challenge students to come up with an argument about allocating funding to a potential national park/reserve using information they had just been provided, and applying what they... |
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| https://clse-cwis.asc.ohio-state.edu/index.php?P=P_Pages_Dis... | ||||
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How do new species come about --- resources for recitation and building DNA strands using beads
Here I submitted my recitation slides and "record Changes" sheet. For the recitation slides, I do incorporate some information from shared resources, but I found the first several slides I made helped student to understand population vs individual changes, and to understand the 'modeling process'. The "record changes" sheet was very useful, helping students writing down mutations, and find... |
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| https://osu.instructure.com/courses/22760/assignments/346152... | ||||
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Online biology learning center
Online learning center for the textbook 'Biology' (Seventh edition) by Raven, Johnson, Losos and Singer. Helpful practice questions (including multiple choice questions) are found in this site. Outlines of each chapter that highlight key biological concepts can be obtained by clicking on the link 'information center' on this webpage. There are full color, dynamic animations from Chapter 5 onwards... |
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| http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072437316/sitemap.htm... | ||||
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NBC Learn Higher Ed
This website offers thousands of authentic NBC News videos, historic newsreels, primary source documents, photographs and more, useful for instructors, researchers and students. The content is categorized in to 40 subject areas including biology, chemistry, education, current events, finance, earth science, physics, ethics, math & statistics etc. Very engaging content and easy navigation. The... |
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| http://highered.nbclearn.com/portal/site/HigherEd | ||||
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Suggestions for TA Point Activities
This document is a collection of ideas and strategies for providing students with engaging and effective ways to earn designated "TA Points" when they are included as part of a course. The ideas have all been generated by veteran teaching assistants in CLSE, and offer a variety of ideas that have been found to be useful. If you are a current TA in CLSE, feel free to read through this document,... |
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| https://clse-cwis.asc.ohio-state.edu/TA_Point_Suggestions | ||||
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New Tricks for Old Genes Teachable Tidbit (Regulation of Gene Expression)
In this activity, students learn about gene expression and how different genes are active and inactive in different tissues of the body. They will also explore how microarrays work, and will explore the relationships that exist between gene expression and cancer as well as epigenetics. As part of this tidbit, students will work in groups to complete a worksheet as the activity progresses, watch... |
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| https://clse-cwis.asc.ohio-state.edu/teachable_tidbits/new_t... | ||||
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Central Dogma - Genes to Phenotype Teachable Tidbit (The Sciurus Case of the Black Squirrel)
In this approximately 20 to 25 minute lecture activity, students work collaboratively in groups to learn about the genetic basis of, and molecular mechanisms behind, the variation observed in squirrel coat color. As components of the activity, students will respond in groups to clicker style questions, and will work together to complete a worksheet that, ultimately, requires the construction of a... |
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| http://clse-cwis.asc.ohio-state.edu/teachable_tidbits/centra... | ||||
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Worlds Largest Blue Whale colony - Discovered in Sri Lanka
A documentary about a new and largest colony of blue whales discovered near Sri Lanka in the Indian Ocean. Characteristics of blue whales, possible reasons for the flourishing of this new colony, research conducted, threats and protection of this endangered species are discussed. |
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| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5MPbZZ4xJA | ||||
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Green Sea Slug is Part Animal, Part Plant
This article describes the first truly photosynthetic animal reported; the Green Sea Slug. Cells in its digestive tract hijacks chloroplasts from algae it feeds on, preserve functionality of these chloroplasts in slug cells, and produce food by photosynthesis. Moreover, some genes important for maintaining photosynthetic function of these hijacked chloroplasts are believed to have transferred... |
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| http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/01/green-sea-slug/ | ||||
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