New Directions for Teaching Cell Biology
Activities to Stimulate Student Thinking

• Exploration #1:Our Inability to Define Life
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  • Embedded Assessment

  
  

• Exploration #2: Seti Move Over!
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  • Embedded Assessment
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    • Concept Development #1:Socratic Dialogue-What is Life?
    • Application #1: Measuring Life
      
      
• Exploration #3: Improving Observations of Life
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  • Concept Development #2: Earthball
  • Concept Development #3: Paradigms or 4 Nickels Worth
    
    
• Exploration #4: Owning Your Own Electron Microscope
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  • Lecture Review
  • Concept Development #4: DNA Extraction
  • Concept Development #5: Natural Selection
  • Application #2: Modeling Cellular Processes
    
    

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