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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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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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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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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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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