Biology is designed for multi-semester biology courses for science majors. It is grounded on an evolutionary basis and includes exciting features that highlight careers in the biological sciences and everyday applications of the concepts at hand. To meet the needs of today’s instructors and students, some content has been strategically condensed while maintaining the overall scope and coverage of traditional texts for this course. Instructors can customize the book, adapting it to the approach that works best in their classroom. Biology also includes an innovative art program that incorporates critical thinking and clicker questions to help students understand—and apply—key concepts.

By the end of this section, you will be able to:Explain how the binding of a ligand initiates signal transduction throughout a cellRecognize the role of phosphorylation in the transmission of intracellular signalsEvaluate the role of second messengers in signal transmission

The purpose of this lesson is to create an engaging and low-cost science field trip/activity. An important aspect of this camp is to make the activities low cost to no cost so that rural schools that do not always have a lot of funding will still be able to invoke creativity through an engaging hands-on planetary/geological science project that takes them outside of the classroom. The students will be using google earth to create a hypothesis using geomorphological questions relating to planetary science and then testing their hypothesis outside local to the school. The activities will be able to be catered to any region and can also be built on based on available resources. The activities will encompass planetary science and geomorphological concepts with optional art additions. The activities will be geared towards grades 6th-8th but could easily be tailored to any grade level. Students will learn about planetary science and geomorphological key concepts and then apply them to their own region.