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Active Learning Strategies for Biodiversity Science

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FRONTIERS IN EDUCATION
卷 7, 期 -, 页码 -

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FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/feduc.2022.849300

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active learning; organismal biology; inclusive teaching; STEM curricula; entomology; herpetology; botany

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  1. Active Learning Grant, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University

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Organismal courses integrate concepts from genetics, physiology, ecology, and other disciplines through a comparative and phylogenetic framework. By focusing on organismal knowledge and authentic examples, students can learn foundational concepts and investigate biological hypotheses. Active learning strategies can promote an inclusive classroom and test students' understanding of core biological concepts.
Organismal courses are inherently integrative, incorporating concepts from genetics, physiology, ecology and other disciplines linked through a comparative and phylogenetic framework. In a comprehensive organismal course, the organisms themselves are a lens through which students view and learn major concepts in evolutionary biology. Here, we present the learning goals of five core concepts (phylogenetics, biogeography, biodiversity, evo-devo, and key traits) we are using to transform organismal courses. We argue that by focusing on organismal knowledge and authentic examples, students learn foundational concepts and investigate biological hypotheses through the content that is unique to individual organismal groups. By using active learning strategies to teach core concepts, instructors can promote an inclusive classroom designed to engage students from diverse backgrounds and facilitate mastery and retention to test understanding of core biological concepts. This paper provides justification for why organismal biology needs to be kept as part of the biology curriculum, outlines the framework we are using to transform organismal courses, and provides examples of different ways instructors can incorporate active learning strategies and in-class activities in organismal courses in ways that enable their application to further investigation of both foundational and translational sciences for students.

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