The lab In A box: A take‐out practical experience for an online invertebrate biology course

Hands‐on experience is critical to teaching invertebrate zoology, as students are unfamiliar with many animals and theoretical concepts are sometimes difficult to assimilate. As part of a fully online course, we decided to give students a box of take‐home materials so that they could do hands‐on wor...

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Published in:Invertebrate biology 2021-03, Vol.140 (1), p.n/a
Main Authors: Novo, Marta, Sánchez, Nuria, Gutiérrez López, Mónica, Cánovas, Rosario G., Pardos, Fernando, Trigo, Dolores, Díaz Cosín, Darío
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Biology
dissections
Ethanol
home laboratory
Invertebrate zoology
Invertebrates
online teaching
Pandemics
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USB digital microscope
Zoology
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Pandemics
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