This is an online, interactive learning activity in which students learn about human blood types. The activity leads the user through the characteristics of each human blood type, clearly differentiates between antigens and antibodies, depicts agglutination and explains the various situations in which this can occur, and assesses understanding through a "matching" exercise. Students who struggle...

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This resource is a collection of lesson plans for activities that promote student engagement with the concept of gene regulation, particularly in prokaryotes. A total of 4 active learning activities are described in detail, including "Lactose Operon Role Play," "Cell Growth in the Presence of Two Sugar Sources," "Design a Repressor System," and Alterations of Operon Function through Mutation."...

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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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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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This is a one-day teachable unit with pre and post-class activities. Materials in this teachable unit are geared towards introducing epigenetics as a form of non-genetic inheritance to students who have little or no prior knowledge of epigenetics. Students are however expected to have a basic understanding of the central dogma: replication, transcription, translation, and their regulatory...

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