This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program aims to develop, test, and publish a collection of approximately 45 Core Concept Teaching Tools (CCTTs) to help biology students transfer their knowledge of core concepts across scales and sub-disciplines. The $232,710 award to the University of Colorado will support bringing together biology educators to create the CCTTs, which will include narratives describing complex biological phenomena and activities to guide students in applying their prior knowledge to understand these phenomena. The CCTTs will be made freely available to instructors through the CourseSource database, allowing them to search by sub-discipline, core concept, and conceptual elements. This initiative aligns with the Vision and Change report's call for improving undergraduate biology education by helping students make connections across different areas of the field.
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