Context Breaks: A Health-Related Case Study as a Unifying Teaching Tool in General Biology

Sophie K. Hill; Rhesa N. Ledbetter

doi:10.1525/abt.2022.84.3.167

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Sophie K. Hill,¹ Rhesa N. Ledbetter²

¹Sophie Hill () is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Plant and Wildlife Sciences at Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602.
²Rhesa Ledbetter () is an assistant professor in the Biology Department at Hastings College, Hastings, NE 68901.

Abstract

Many biology students eventually pursue careers in the health sciences. To create explicit links between introductory biology content and the health sciences, we implemented Context Breaks—a series of seven mini-lectures linking course content to lactase persistence/nonpersistence. Context Breaks were implemented over the course of a semester in a punctuated case-study format and received positive feedback from students. They most highly associated them with deeper learning of material.

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Sophie K. Hill and Rhesa N. Ledbetter "Context Breaks: A Health-Related Case Study as a Unifying Teaching Tool in General Biology," The American Biology Teacher 84(3), 167-169, (24 March 2022). https://doi.org/10.1525/abt.2022.84.3.167

Published: 24 March 2022