Wrestle while you learn: EMG as a teaching tool for undergraduate skeletal muscle physiology teaching

Current topics for teaching skeletal muscle physiology.

Contractions of skeletal muscles provide the stability and power for all body movements. Consequently, any impairment in skeletal muscle function results in some degree of instability or immobility. Factors that influence skeletal muscle structure and function are therefore of great interest both scientifically and clinically. Injury, disease, and old age are among the factors that commonly con...

Caenorhabditis elegans as an undergraduate educational tool for teaching RNAi.

Discovery of RNA-mediated interference (RNAi) is widely recognized as one of the most significant molecular biology breakthroughs in the past 10 years. There is a need for science educators to develop teaching tools and laboratory activities that demonstrate the power of this new technology and help students to better understand the RNAi process. C. elegans is an ideal model organism for the un...

Teaching Holography: Holography as a Teaching Tool

The holo-diagram is a diagram originally designed as a tool for teaching the making and evaluation of holograms. It was soon found to include much more general uses than first expected. During the 20 years since its introduction we have applied this diagram to explain many different fields such as holography, interferometry, diffraction. Fermat's principle, light-in-flight recordings, threedime...

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Questioning as a teaching tool.

The Dreyfus and Bloom frameworks can help the great clinical teacher craft questions that are learner-centric and appropriately challenging.Employing strategies to ask the right questions in the right way can further add to the effectiveness of using questions as a valuable teaching,learning, and assessment tool.