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CATALySES

Funded by NIH Science Education Partnership Awards (SEPA) (R25)

CATALySES (Collaborating to Advance Teaching and Learning of Science Educators and Students) is funded by the National Institutes of Health Science Education Partnership Award to support science teachers in ongoing opportunities for personal enrichment and professional advancement in biomedical education, building on and extending partnerships that connect University of Florida researchers in Emerging Pathogens, Clinical and Translational Science, and Education with schools throughout the State.

| Conceptualizing the Virus | By S. Banas

| Plants Get Sick Too - Fungi! | By A. Brown

| Developing Critical Thinking Skills in Lower Level High School Biology Students | By P. Campbell

| ESE Center Based Populations - Benefits of Providing Hands-on Lab Experiences | By J. Cunningham

| Read Your Way Through It! | By R. Gaines

| I'm Dengue with the Florida Keys | By J. Gregory

| Immune Defense's Impact on Student's Vocabulary Knowledge in Diverse Biology Classrooms  | By K. Grillo

| How Utilizing Team Based Learning Encourage Student's to Utilize Study Habits and Improve the Test Scores of Student's Who Have Been Taught About the Spread of the Different Types of Bacteria at Their School | By Z. Hanley

| Using Emerging Pathogens as a Vector for Increasing Positive Attitudes Towards Science Learning & STEM Career Choices in Middle School Students | By T. Iansiti

| Hands-on Lab Experiences for All Levels of High School Students | By T. Johnson

| An Investigation of the Effects of Intregating Team-Based Learning in the Honors Biology Evolution Unit on Student Achievement  | By P. Kelly

| Impact of Team-Based Learning on Concept Mastery and Student Confidence in a High School AP Biology Class | By V. Ledford

| The Effect of Team-Based Learning (TBL) on Learning Acquisition During a Lesson about Ebola Virus as an Emergent Pathogen | By H. Maysonet

| A Study Investigating the Effect of Hands-on Biotechnology Activities and Technology-Based Emerging Pathogens Activities on Student Mastery of the Pathology/Immunology Unit in a Regular Level Biology Course | By C. McHugh-Lowther

| Using a Online Databases to Understand Proteins, DNA, and Phylogenetic Relationships Among Pathogenic Organisms | By M. Nelson

| Teaching and learning of Spectometry Concepts in Advanced Placement (AP) Chemistry | By K. Orr

| Hospitals Have Microbiomes Too! | By A. Paulk

| The Impact of Labratory Visits on Biology Students' Achievement and Attitudes Towards Science  | By K. Prada

| Team-Based Learning for Experimental Design and Statistical Inference | By C. Seleski

| Using Team Based Learning to Teach Human Immune Function and its Impacts on Public Health | By S. Seleski

| Photosynthesis and Productivity in Mediterranean Crops  | By V. Steele

| Heredity and Malaria: Using the Relationships Between Malaria and Sickle Cell to Increase Student Understanding pf Heredity  | By M. Thomas-King

| Getting to Know Our Neighbors: The Oral Microbes | By A. Akinyode

| An Invitation for Change: Empowering Undeserved Populations Through Citizen Science that Culls the Spread of Emerging Pathogens Through Blended Learning | By S. Barnes

| The Impact of Teaching Plants Through a Disease Module on Student Engagement, Student Attitude, and Learning Gains | By K. Bolden

| Using Emerging Pathogens as a Vector for Teaching Project-Based Storyline Learning to 9th Grade Biology I Students | By C. Brink

| What's in the Water | By S. Chabot

| Engaging Students Below Grade Level in High School Biology | By N. Clark

| The Effects of Integrating Emerging Pathogens Inquiry Based Case Study & Inquiry Based Laboratory Activity on the Interest and Performance of 10th, 11th, and 12th Grade Students in Anatomy & Physiology Classes | By C. Druyff

| Teaching Biology Standards Through Disease Modules Focus Standard: Macromolecules & Vector Borne Disease | By E. Emery

| Effects of an Emerging Pathogen-Centered Lesson on Student Engagement and Perceived Lesson Effectiveness in the Advanced Placement Biology Classroom | By W. Furiosi

| A Study of the Impact of Reading Skills and Strategies on Achievement in a High School Biology Course | By S. Hendrix 

| Disease-ology: Transforming the Teaching of Biology Using a Disease Model: Evolution | By J. Higginbotham

| Ewww, A Mouthful of Microbes! | By A. Krause

| CAT2017_Saravia-Eternally Yours Using Antibiotic Resistance Experiments to  | By F. Saravia

| Water is Life.... Teaching Biology Through A Disease Model and Human Impact | By C. Vaughn

| Breeding Scientific Understanding and Ideas Through Change! | By S. Wilkie