Remote online learning with Molecular Biology: Concepts for Inquiry

Molecular Biology: Concepts for Inquiry textbook, workbook, and teacher's curriculum guide contain a complete course curriculum that is readily adapted for remote online learning in an introductory college-level molecular biology course or an advanced high school course taught at the college level. The Molecular Biology: Concepts for Inquiry textbook deeply explores concepts in 266 pages, which includes over 170 color figures. It was written to be used in lieu of direct lecture. Google quizzes are available for students to self-assess their reading comprehension. Molecular Biology Concepts for Inquiry: The Exploration Workbook includes inquiry activities, discussion questions, and self-assessments. Molecular Biology Concepts for Inquiry: A Guide to Inquiry contains a 5E inquiry curriculum plan, annotated workbook pages, and answer keys. Together, these provide a complete 5E inquiry curriculum plan and resources that provide a framework for an instructor to guide online discussions and groupwork in the student workbook using the instructor prompts/feedback described in this guidebook. A video conferencing platform like Zoom allows both full-class discussion and allows the instructor to assign students to multiple small-group breakout rooms. The guidebook includes at-a-glance annotations of the student workbook pages that indicate when and how an instructor might check in on group discussions. It also provides extensive commentary on common misconceptions and the development of conceptual understanding. Several class activities focus on experimental design and/or analysis of sample experimental data. Further details of how this curriculum is amenable to online instruction are available on this site. Instructors may contact me to receive copies of the Google quizzes that they may modify and distribute to their classes and to receive slide sets of textbook figures. A free Kindle Matchbook eBook version of each of these works is available with purchase of the paperback version.