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Plants, Pipettes And Pcr, Elizabeth Vierling
Plants, Pipettes And Pcr, Elizabeth Vierling
Science and Engineering Saturday Seminars
Plants are amazing organisms that provide us with food, building materials, the pleasure of gardens, as well as providing the foundation of critical world ecosystems. Although they may look like they are just stuck in one place and doing not more than growing, they have many, many complex ways in which they respond to the environment. The goal of this STEM Ed session will be to discuss ways that plants can respond to the environment with hands on exercises and exploration of possible classroom activities. Participants will engage in state-of-the art methods of testing plant DNA composition using the polymerase …
Bubble Lab Exercise, Peter Beltramo
Bubble Lab Exercise, Peter Beltramo
Science and Engineering Saturday Seminars
The cell membrane is a ubiquitous component in mammalian cells which control many vital biological functions. It consists of a phospholipid bilayer with embedded protein molecules which serve to transport molecules between the interior and exterior of the cell. Understanding what makes cell membranes so important and how they function requires concepts from physics, chemistry, and of course biology, but it is difficult to learn and conceptualize the structure and function of membranes due to their nanoscopic size and dynamic nature which can’t be properly appreciated in a static textbook. This activity draws analogies between the chemistry and structure of …
Pollen Biology, Alice Cheung, Hen-Ming Wu
Pollen Biology, Alice Cheung, Hen-Ming Wu
Science and Engineering Saturday Seminars
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Reading Questions In Large Lecture Courses., E. Offerdahl, T. Baldwin, L. Elfring, Elizabeth Vierling, M. Ziegler
Reading Questions In Large Lecture Courses., E. Offerdahl, T. Baldwin, L. Elfring, Elizabeth Vierling, M. Ziegler
Elizabeth Vierling
As an alternative to reading quizzes, a team of biochemistry instructors implemented student reading questions (Henderson and Rosenthal 2006) as a new instructional strategy within their large-enrollment biochemistry courses. Unexpected positive outcomes of this instructional method were realized, as well as limitations of the method within this setting. Outcomes and limitations of the reading-question strategy as well as suggestions for their more efficient implementation are discussed. (Contains 2 figures.)