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Understanding Global Change

This interactive module allows students and educators to build models that explain how the Earth system works. The Click & Learn can be used to show how Earth is affected by human activities and natural phenomena.

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Introduction to Systems

In this activity, students use a systems approach to build a model of an ecological system.

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Exploring Biomass Pyramids

This interactive module allows students to collect and analyze data from a virtual river to construct biomass and energy pyramids.

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Exploring Systems Across Scales

In this activity, students apply a systems approach to understand phenomena at physiological and global scales of organization.

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Dead Zones in Coastal Ecosystems

This activity guides the analysis of a published scientific figure from a study on low-oxygen areas in the ocean called dead zones.

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The Biology of Oxygen

This Click & Learn, which includes a simulator of oxygen circulation, explores how oxygen moves from the atmosphere into the human body and eventually to the tissues.

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The Eukaryotic Cell Cycle and Cancer

This interactive module explores the phases, checkpoints, and protein regulators of the cell cycle. The module also shows how mutations in genes that encode cell cycle regulators can lead to the development of cancer.

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Lizard Evolution Virtual Lab

This interactive, modular lab explores the evolution of the anole lizards in the Caribbean through data collection and analysis.

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Exploring Trophic Cascades

This interactive module explores examples of how changes in one species can affect species at other trophic levels and ultimately the entire ecosystem.

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BiomeViewer

This interactive module explores biomes, climate, biodiversity, and human impacts around the globe and at different times.

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EarthViewer

This interactive module allows students to explore the science of Earth's deep history, from its formation 4.5 billion years ago to modern times.

Educator Voices

Hear how experienced science educators are using BioInteractive resources with their students. Discover implementation ideas, lesson sequences, resource modifications, quick tips, and more in this collection of videos and in-depth articles.

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Adapting BioInteractive Resources to Support Student Engagement

Interested in strategies to modify BioInteractive resources? This article from Indiana educator Kristen Short details how she modified our activities to make them more relevant to all her students.

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Fostering Student Reflection to Strengthen Foundations for Learning in Undergraduate Biology Courses

Students often struggle with articulating what they’re learning and why. In this article from undergraduate educator Christina Bowers, she delves into various ways to foster student reflection to give them more ownership of their learning.

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Implementing BioInteractive Resources in Large Undergraduate Courses

Using active learning strategies with large, undergraduate classes can be challenging. In this article, professor Kasey Christopher details how she utilizes a variety of BioInteractive resources in her courses to encourage student engagement.

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Teaching Tools for Multilingual Learners Using the “Modeling the Regulatory Switches of the Pitx1 Gene in Stickleback Fish” Activity

If you're interested in strategies to support your multilingual learner students, this article by Rhode Island educator Diana Siliezar-Shields details how she adapts our stickleback resources to assist her students' acquisition of scientific language.

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Using the “Ants to Grizzlies” Short Film to Teach Habitat Fragmentation

Professor Melissa Haswell discusses how she uses our biogeography resources as part of a case study to help students build connections between island biogeography and eliminating habitat fragmentation in their own locales.

Teaching Support

Discover tools to help plan lessons and opportunities to support professional learning.

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Assessing Student Learning

High-quality assessment items are essential for backward design, but writing items is both challenging and time-consuming. To support educators, Assessment Builder provides vetted assessment items that leverage the expertise of the life science teaching community and promote best practices.

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Developing Educators as Leaders

The HHMI BioInteractive Ambassador Academy is a three-year professional development experience designed to promote and support evidence-based teaching practices that incorporate our approach and values as well as our free and accessible classroom resources.