Lessons

Metabolic Rates

Cellular Processes

Students investigate Kleiber's Law — that metabolic rate scales to ~the ¾ power of body mass — using real data from the AnAge Database, working through a five-part packet of...

Homeostasis

Cellular Processes

Students analyze real physiological data from ten participants who stood up during a lab study (a cardiovascular challenge), tracking heart rate, blood pressure, respiratory...

The Cellular Energy Economy

Cellular Processes

Students model the three stages of aerobic respiration through a "cellular economy" simulation, earning ATP/NADH/FADH₂ tokens, then pool yield data into a class spreadsheet,...

Comparing and Conserving Biodiversity

Ecology & Populations

Uses real species-occurrence data from four contrasting ecosystems (Amazon, Appalachian forest, Great Barrier Reef, Arctic tundra) to calculate species richness, analyze...

Population Ecology

Ecology & Populations

Uses 90 years of real hare–lynx population data from the Canadian boreal forest to help students understand why populations never grow indefinitely, identifying carrying...

BRCA Gene Mutations

Genetics & Heredity

Uses 30 real variants from the BRCA Exchange to have students classify mutations by type (silent, missense, nonsense, frameshift, splice site), connect each to its protein...

Cladograms

Evolution & Ancestry

Teaches that building an evolutionary family tree requires distinguishing traits inherited from a common ancestor from traits that evolved independently in similar environments...

Evolution at Warp Speed

Evolution & Ancestry

A good wrap-up to the evolution unit by tracking how SARS-CoV-2 variants rose and fell (2020–2022), letting students see variation, differential reproduction, and competitive...

Fossil Record

Evolution & Ancestry

Puts students in the role of the scientist who re-checked the textbooks: using real fossil measurements and a predictive regression model built from living fish, they calculate...

Finch Evolution

Evolution & Ancestry

Uses 37 years of real beak-measurement data from Darwin's finches to show students that natural selection is a measurable, ongoing process visible within a human lifetime. By...

Testing Mendel's Data

Genetics & Heredity

Students analyze Mendel's original F2 data to identify inheritance patterns, calculate expected outcomes using probability, and apply chi-square analysis to test whether...