This textbook was created as part of the Interactive OER for Dual Enrollment project, facilitated by LOUIS: The Louisiana Library Network and funded by a $2 million Open Textbooks Pilot Program grant from the Department of Education. This project supports the extension of access to high-quality post-secondary opportunities to high school students across Louisiana and beyond. This project features a collaboration between educational systems in Louisiana, the library community, Pressbooks technology partner, and workforce representatives. It will enable and enhance the delivery of open educational resources (OER) and interactive quiz and assessment elements for priority dual enrollment courses in Louisiana and nationally. Developed OER course materials will be released under a license that permits their free use, reuse, modification and sharing with others.

The target audience for this project and this textbook are dual enrollment students. Dual enrollment is the opportunity for a student to be enrolled in high school and college at the same time. A dual enrollment student receives credit on both their high school and college transcripts for the same course.

The European Experience brings together the expertise of nearly a hundred historians from eight European universities to internationalise and diversify the study of modern European history, exploring a grand sweep of time from 1500 to 2000. Offering a valuable corrective to the Anglocentric narratives of previous English-language textbooks, scholars from all over Europe have pooled their knowledge on comparative themes such as identities, cultural encounters, power and citizenship, and economic development to reflect the complexity and heterogeneous nature of the European experience. Rather than another grand narrative, the international author teams offer a multifaceted and rich perspective on the history of the continent of the past 500 years. Each major theme is dissected through three chronological sub-chapters, revealing how major social, political and historical trends manifested themselves in different European settings during the early modern (1500–1800), modern (1800–1900) and contemporary period (1900–2000).

This resource is of utmost relevance to today’s history students in the light of ongoing internationalisation strategies for higher education curricula, as it delivers one of the first multi-perspective and truly ‘European’ analyses of the continent’s past. Beyond the provision of historical content, this textbook equips students with the intellectual tools to interrogate prevailing accounts of European history, and enables them to seek out additional perspectives in a bid to further enrich the discipline

BIS 2B is part of the UC Davis Biological Sciences lower division core sequence and is designed to provide a foundation for study of modern biology for a broad range of majors. BIS 2B explores the ecological and evolutionary processes that shape biological diversity and acquaints you with the physical challenges of the environment. This course complements how BIS 2A treats the fundamental molecular, cellular, developmental, physiological, and genetic building blocks of living organisms, and the origins of life itself and how BIS 2C considers the diversity of life on earth that is the outcome of several billion years of continuous evolution and ecology.

Specifically, this course covers the processes by which organisms have evolved over the 3.5+ billion years of the existence of life on Earth (evolution) and the present-day processes by which those species interact with each other and the environment to create the habitats, patterns of distribution and abundance of species we see around us (ecology). As you will certainly see throughout the quarter, evolution and ecology are fundamentally linked: evolutionary history shapes a species’ ecology, and present-day ecology can influence future evolutionary trajectories. This is why they are studied together in this course.

Welcome to the Whitman College Biology Department's Virtual Pig Dissection (VPD)!

This site is designed as a supplement to laboratory dissections exploring introductory mammalian anatomy and physiology — it is basic and many details have been omitted for clarity. We hope that it is suitable for AP Biology students or for students of introductory anatomy and physiology at the college level.

We have revised this site to improve the learning experience and accessibility. Please see the " About" page for more details and contact information. We hope you find it useful and enjoy using it!

PhET provides fun, free, interactive, research-based science and mathematics simulations. We extensively test and evaluate each simulation to ensure educational effectiveness. These tests include student interviews and observation of simulation use in classrooms. The simulations are written in HTML5 (with some legacy simulations in Java or Flash), and can be run online or downloaded to your computer. All simulations are open source (see our source code). Multiple sponsors support the PhET project, enabling these resources to be free to all students and teachers.

The Molecular Workbench (MW) software:

1. Is a modeling tool for designing and conducting computational experiments across science.
2. Provides an authoring system for instructional designers to create
and publish model and simulation-based curriculum materials.
3. Delivers an interactive learning environment that supports
science inquiry.
4. Is free and open-source.

Introduction to the Microscope
OVERVIEW
Follow along in this online exercise, with guided instruction covering the basics of light microscopy, comparable to
what you would learn in a seated lab. You will identify components of the microscope, understand the functions of
those components, learn how to focus in on a specimen, and review proper care and maintenance.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
• Identify the parts of the light microscope and describe the function of each.
• List the steps in focusing a light microscope.
• Describe how to properly handle the light microscope, focus slides, and clean the microscope when finished

Welcome to the Open Educational Resource (OER) laboratory manual that will take you on an exciting journey through scientific exploration’s fundamental principles and techniques. This book will delve into the captivating realm of scientific inquiry, where observation, experimentation, and analysis pave the way for groundbreaking discoveries.

Biology I Cellular Processes Laboratory Manual will provide our undergraduate biology students with an engaging and meaningful laboratory experience that nurtures a sense of discovery and encourages more significant interest in biological science as a core subject, a field of study, or a career. The laboratory manual reinforces critical core concepts of biology and engages students to solve problems through scientific investigation by learning to ask and answer questions through observations and conducting experiments.

The content of the lab was adopted from a previous lab manual titled “Biological Science Lab Manual” coauthored with Ms. Amanda Gehring in 2017.

Many thanks to Ms. Amanda Gehring, Prabha Usman, Biology Department of Hillsborough Community College Brandon Campus and Center for Innovative Teaching and Technology for providing valuable input on what it takes to make a Biology lab manual a success.

Browse Life Science videos, interactive activities, teaching materials, and more! Get fun and engaging teaching materials and curriculum-aligned content on topics such as the cell cycle, genetic disorders, and bioethics.