| Content |
Brief description |
Download |
| How-To text |
How to operate the software |
Web link |
| How-To video #1 |
Walk through of basic operations |
As
.swf as
.mp4
(Initial steps are for indirect launch; software below will load to PatternMaster itself) |
| How-To video #2 |
Checking your hypothesis |
As
.swf or as .mp4 |
| Tips and tricks |
Conveniences and hints for success |
Video as .swf or as .mp4 |
| Teacher guide |
Images and insights |
Requires account |
| Rubric |
Not currently part of the assignment as we deliver it |
PatternMaster Rubric (2013) |
Patterns in nature: Examples
Our inclusion of PatternMaster in curriculum sometimes surprises Bio students. Here are some examples where observing a pattern (or violating one) lead to a major scientific breakthrough
| Content |
Brief description |
Web link |
| John Snow and Cholera |
Plotting deaths on a map highlighted their relationship to a water pump... and the absence of a brewery |
Article with map |
| the Periodic Table |
There's nothing bigger in Chemistry, and it all came from patterns--in numbers and in properties |
Discussion |
| Semmelweis and hand washing |
Observations about midwife vs. physicians/med students indicated something was wrong with the latter |
Storyline |
| Neptune |
Predicted on the basis of unexplained perturbations of Uranus' orbit |
Storyline |
| Helium |
Missing bands in sunlight suggest an element not yet accounted for |
Storyline |
| Theory of Evolution |
Parallels between breeding successes in cattle, pigeons, crops and the natural world lead to Darwin's Big Idea |
Storyline |
| Mendel's laws |
non-random outcomes in pea traits provide the basis for suggesting there are heritable particles determining traits |
Storyline |
| DNA structure |
Repeated interactions amongst the constituents tells us how information is held, exchanged, shared |
Chargaff's rules |
| Death of soldiers in wartime |
Disease killed more than enemy soldiers |
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| Sickle cell anemia and malaria |
Why is it that sickle cell anemia is so COMMON... and why so common where malaria is rampant? |
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