Volume 70, Number 1, January 2008
From the President
Todd Carter ... 3
EDITORIAL
Teachers Who Won’t, Don’t or Can’t Teach Evolution Properly: A Burning Issue
Jason R. Wiles Glenn Branch … 6
ABT Online
ARTICLE
Using Profile Projects To Pull Together Concepts
A creative and exciting alternative to tests and quizzes.
Jerome A. Krueger Robert K. Noyd
QUICK FIXES
Using a Passing Game To Teach Nerve Conduction
A hot potato approach to teaching nerve signal transmission.
Ann Gathers … 11
Using Presidential Elections To Engage Students in Science Issues
Which presidential candidates know their science? Have students dig deeper to find out.
Jeffrey Scott Coker Anna Johnson …13
ARTICLES
Night Gallery: An Innovative Multimedia Strategy for Delivering a General Microbiology Lecture
Use drama and graphic art to teach a microbiology lecture involving historical, ethical, and biological concepts.
John Dahl Phil Mixter …23
Use of the Published Lance Armstrong Cancer Story to Teach Health Science Content to High School Students
A mini-course in cancer biology.
E. Robert Burns … 17
INQUIRY & INVESTIGATIONS
CRITTERS! A Realistic Simulation for Teaching Evolutionary Biology
Students study microevolutionary forces using digital organisms in a virtual world.
Luke G. Latham II Erik P. Scully … 30
Using a Guided Inquiry Approach in the Traditional Vertebrate Anatomy Laboratory
Making the vertebrate anatomy lab more like real science.
Debra Meuler …35
A Coral Reef as an Analogical Model To Promote Collaborative Learning on Cultural & Ethnic Diversity in Science
Exploring scientific endeavors of women, minorities, and non-western cultures.
Robert W. Yost Edward L. F. Gonzalez … 39
HOW-TO-DO-IT
Take a Trip to the Biobank
Students examine issues surrounding human genetic databanks.
William P. Baker Carleton Buck Jones Elizabeth Hull … 44
DEPARTMENTS
Biology Today
Plants in Production
Maura C. Flannery, Department Editor ... 51
Classroom Technology Reviews
José Vázquez, Department Editor ... 55
Book Reviews
Meghan Guinnee, Department Editor ... 56
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