Role-play is one way to give students a visual overview of glycolysis and the Krebs cycle,
with the aim of helping them construct their own mental images. Students have reported that …

Ask any group of high school biology teachers what topics their students find most difficult to
comprehend and chances are that cell respiration will be among those mentioned. Such a …

Objectives. To develop and evaluate a board game designed to increase students'
enjoyment of learning metabolic pathways; their familiarity with pathway reactions …

Learning basic cell biology in an essential module can be daunting to second-year
undergraduates, given the depth of information that is provided in major molecular and cell …

T HE following is a thematic program designed for use in introductory biology courses. Its
main objectives are to 1) provide relevancy of biological concepts to the world outside of the …

Many introductory biochemistry students have problems understanding metabolism and
acquiring the skills necessary to study metabolic pathways. In this paper we suggest that this …

Biology instruction is effective when students are actively involved in the learning process
(Igelsrud & Leonard 1988). Therefore, biology teachers need to reduce their reliance on the …

Abstract concepts, especially those at the molecular level, often are difficult for students to
understand. Protein synthesis is one of these processes. Lectures, films, problem solving …

The first course in our year-long introductory series for Biology majors encompasses four
learning units: biological molecules and cells, metabolism, genetics, and evolution. Of these …

Faculty members from the University of South Dakota attended the Curriculum Reform
Institute offered by the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh, WI, during the summer of 2002 to …