At LearnSci, we’ve spent the last year working closely with academics across more than 30 institutions, actively listening to current pressures and challenges. This partnership has been the driving force behind the significant expansion of our Smart Worksheet Library. We’ve built a curriculum-aligned, pedagogically sound, and academically flexible repository of resources that help students grasp core biology concepts, develop problem-solving strategies, and apply theory to practical contexts. Designed by educators and built by experts, the Smart Worksheet Library offers the solution to many teaching and learning challenges that practitioners are facing.
As well as our existing resources, our expanded Biosciences offering now includes:
Resources in genetics
- “Lac Operon”, which supports students’ understanding of gene regulation through practical application to experimental data.
- A set of two resources that guides students on using BLAST to identify mutations, identify and navigate the genomes of prokaryotes and eukaryotes in applied scenarios.
- A resource on qPCR that guides students through qPCR data analysis and presentation, to draw conclusions about relative gene expression.
Molecular biology techniques
- “Western Blot analysis” supports students on the methodology of standardising solutions to obtain accurate results, identification of common errors and causes, and result interpretation.
- “ELISA analysis” guides student how to create standard curves to calculate protein concentrations, and draw conclusions based on experimental data
Microbiology resources
- “Counting microbial populations” aids students on serial dilutions and plate counting techniques to calculate CFU/mL, which they then apply in a clinical context. This is then explored further in “Introduction to bacterial growth curves” which develops student skills in constructing calibration charts to calculate doubling and generation times.
- “Haemocytometry analysis” equips students with skills for accurate haemocytometry counting and calculations to estimate red blood cell, white blood cell, and viable and non-viable cell concentration.
- “Bacterial identification” elucidates key techniques such as identifying contamination, aseptic technique, using growth media, interpreting biochemical profiles and applying these to reach diagnostic conclusions.
Physiology
- Two Smart Worksheets on ECG which guide students through trace interpretation to calculate heart rate and intervals, proper lead placement and identification of error, and identifying the electrical axis of the heart.
- “Spirometry: fundamentals” supports students in trace interpretation to calculate lung volumes and capacities, and identifying indications of obstructive or restrictive lung disease from function tests.
- “Membrane potential” supports students in calculating membrane potential using Nernst and Goldman–Hodgkin–Katz equations at a localised part of a membrane throughout the course of an action potential.
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