Vertebrate Life 10e Active Learning Exercises - Additional Resources

http://www.HHMI.org/biointeractive/

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute has a large number of useful resources. We have highlighted a few of them in the exercises for specific chapters, and there are many others and more being added.

http://sciencecases.lib.buffalo.edu/cs/

The National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science has a growing collection of case studies contributed by instructors that can be adapted to the needs of individual classes. The cases are open-access, but you must be a member to see the teaching notes and answer key.

https://amphibiaweb.org/education/edu_index.html

AmphibiaWeb has a table of “Classroom Use Suggestions” that includes a link to their cartograms for amphibians in general. They suggest bringing these up and having students look for patterns and consider why they are the way they are. For example, why do we only see caecilians in the tropics? Or, why is salamander diversity greatest in regions not rich in frogs?

http://humanorigins.si.edu

The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History has a “What does it mean to be human?” page that includes all manner of information about human evolution from primates, including ongoing research, news, videos, and lesson plans targeted at high school students, but adaptable to college. It also includes the effects of climate change and information specific to the anthropocene.

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