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  • PAC Vol 5 No 1 2024. Students working in learning teams

    Vol. 5 No. 1 (2024)

    This issue contains the following nineteen activities:

    • Differential Gene Expression**
    • Developing Reading Fluency and Metacognition in Exam-taking*
    • Empirical and Molecular Formula*
    • Activity 1 - Buffer Overflows in C
    • Course Design and Alignment
    • Introduction to Hybrid-Flexible Course Design
    • Special Triangles
    • The Unit Circle
    • Introduction to Sine and Cosine
    • Caching RISC-V Example
    • Bioenergetics -1- Non-redox reactions
    • Thermoregulation and the Anatomy of a Negative Feedback Loop
    • Self and Non-Self Activity: An Introduction to the Immune System
    • Telomerase and the End-Replication Problem
    • Concentration
    • Identification of a Functional Group
    • Hess's Law Activity
    • Acids, Bases, pH, pKa, and Buffers
    • Polymerization Basics Activity

    * This activity is ready for classroom testing
    ** This is an Approved Activity

  • Vol. 4 No. 2 (2023)

    This issue contains the following fifteen activities:

    • Organic Functional Groups – Structure and Properties*
    • Genetic Variation, Natural Selection, and Evolution*
    • Properties of Acids and Bases*
    • Transport Across Biological Membranes*
    • Carts and Car Crashes
    • To Mars from Arizona
    • Lab Notebooks
    • Statements
    • Finding distances I
    • Z-Scores
    • Data frame slicing and filtering
    • Analyzing Microbial Communities through Nanopore Sequencing
    • Arguments and Paragraphs – Two Important Elements in Good Scientific Writing
    • Comparing global water use across sectors
    • Amoebic Parasites: Microscopic Organisms, Debilitating Effects

    * This activity is ready for classroom testing

  • Vol. 4 No. 1 (2023)

    This issue contains the following sixteen activities:

    • Learning the Language of Biology*
    • Biodiversity*
    • Evolution of Atomic Theory*
    • Chemical Reactions*
    • Melting Point Guided Activity
    • Parts of the Brain
    • Solubility Activity
    • Coulomb Interaction I
    • What makes a good buffer?
    • Functions
    • Electromagnetic Radiation
    • Confidence Interval Interpretation
    • Exploring Nuclear Processes
    • Enzyme Kinetics - Understanding the interactions between Enzyme and substrate molecules
    • Using Web of Science to Perform a Topical Literature Search
    • What Do Pug Farts Have to Do with Zombie Sheep? Mastering the Principles of Effective Research Poster Design

    * This activity is ready for classroom testing

  • CS-POGIL Special Issue
    Vol. 3 No. 4 (2022)

  • Vol. 3 No. 3 (2022)

    This issue contains the following nine activities:

    • Stoichiometry*
    • Chemical Combination Laws*
    • Point Groups*
    • Enzymes of kings
    • Approximate Integration I
    • What is the design of the “best” slime to play with?
    • Symmetry Elements
    • Under what conditions can an E2 elimination reaction give the non-Zaitsev product?
    • Alkyne acidity and carbon carbon bond formation

    * This activity is ready for classroom testing

  • Vol. 3 No. 2 (2022)

    This issue contains the following nine activities:

    • Basic Terms of Probability
    • Sets
    • Speed vs. Velocity, Distance vs. Displacement
    • Process Memory Layout
    • HPT Axis
    • Neural Development
    • Stereoisomerism in Alkenes
    • Nomenclature of Alkenes
    • Introduction to Gas Chromatography
  • Vol. 3 No. 1 (2022)

    This issue contains the following twenty-three activities:

    • The Central Dogma of Molecular Biology*
    • Membrane Transport*
    • Falling Objects I* & Falling Objects II*
    • Introduction to Graphing and Equations in Two Variables*
    • Dividing Polynomials*
    • Introduction to Gas Chromatography*
    • How Are Fingerprints Identified?
    • Interrupts and Syscalls
    • Introduction to CSS
    • Decoding Hidden Messages with the Central Dogma
    • Optogenetics in Neurons
    • Epigenetic Control
    • Cell Components
    • Introduction to Human Neuroanatomy
    • Memory Store Model
    • Acceleration and Force in Uniform Circular Motion
    • Intuition of Integration by Substitution Activity
    • Tests on Qualitative Data with More than Two Categories
    • Chemical Combination Laws
    • How do buffers resist changes to pH?
    • Radical addition of HBr to alkenes
    • Mineral Extraction

    * This activity is ready for classroom testing

  • Vol. 2 No. 3 (2021)

    This issue contains the following sixteen activities:

    • Watersheds and Drainage Basins*
    • Cellular Membranes*
    • Eukaryotic chromosome morphology*
    • Harmonic Sequences
    • Hearing, Describing, and Creating Melodies in the DAW
    • Measures of Dispersion
    • Marginal Utility
    • Introduction to C
    • Building a MIPS Single Cycle Datapath - Part 1: R-type Instructions
    • Molecular cloning using attB/attP-mediated recombination
    • Prokaryotic Immunity
    • Acids, Bases and Conductivity
    • Which Polymer Is It?
    • Lewis Acids and Bases: MO Depiction
    • Climbing a hill: How reactants turn into products
    • DNA Fingerprinting

    * This activity is ready for classroom testing

  • Vol. 2 No. 2 (2021)

    This issue contains the following eleven activities:

    • Mallet Motion I* & Mallet Motion II*
    • Croquet and Roller Skates
    • Introduction to APA Style
    • Cells and the central dogma: overview
    • DNA Replication
    • CRISPR-Cas9 Genome Editing
    • Human Kidney Function
    • Stoichiometry
    • Sample Techniques in Gas Chromatography
    • SARS Co V 2 Life Cycle

    * This activity is ready for classroom testing

  • Vol. 2 No. 1 (2021)

    This issue contains the following eleven activities:

    • Reaction Mole Activity*
    • What Happens When Compounds are Added to Water?*
    • Blood Calcium Homeostasis*
    • Mallet Motion I & Mallet Motion II
    • Introduction to Gas Chromatography
    • Stoichiometry and Limiting Reactants Activity
    • Solving Rational Equations and Radical Equations
    • Reversible Changes of an Ideal Gas
    • Chemical Reactions
    • Exploring Measurements and Scientific Notation

    * This activity is ready for classroom testing

  • Vol. 1 No. 1 (2020)

    This inagural issue contains the following seven activities:

    • Regulatory Mechanisms: Endocrine System*
    • Heart Activity 2 - Controlling Cardiac Output*
    • Nucleic Acids
    • Blood Calcium Homeostasis 
    • Microbial Metabolism 
    • Basics of Classical Conditioning in Psychology 
    • Slope - Definition and Application 

    * This activity is ready for classroom testing