A short film (33 min) about the "the amazing story behind one of the revolutionary discoveries of the last 100 years" Beautiful footage and clear explantions of the K-T boundary and how the world changed between the Mesozoic and the Cenozoic eras. As explained in the news release, this film is in three parts to make it user friendly, and this allows for discussion about the content...

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Online simulation of how static electricity works. Students can complete online scenarios and learn electricity concepts. This resource would work well for students who do not fully understand polarity. All University of Colorado PhET simulations have associated Teaching Resources, associated Learning Outcomes, and translations into many languages.

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A fun educational video clip showing chasing of a bacterium by a neutrophil and eventually consuming it by phagocytosis. Useful to entertain students during cellular diversity lab. Illustrates concepts like cell size deference between eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells, cellular diversity (i.e. white blood cell vs. red blood cells vs. bacterium) and bulk cellular transport by phagocytosis.

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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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Lights, Camera, Acting Transport! is an active and unique role-play exercise designed to teach introductory biology students basic concepts of passive and active membrane transport. The activity involves three acts in which students, representing various molecules, ions and components of the plasma membrane, interact to learn the fundamentals of passive transport, primary active transport and...

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