2024 ASM Conference for Undergraduate Educators

The ability to understand science and think in a critical way is important to modern citizens. However, students struggle learning to read and write about science. Students leave science because they feel unconnected and uninspired by traditional teaching methods. Additionally, teachers struggle finding teaching resources that are effective, innovative, and reliable. This science literacy project provides two opportunities for curricular change. First, student/faculty teams collaboratively annotated episodes from TWiM, mapped concepts to the ASM curricular guidelines, and developed figure reading exercises based on the primary literature in the podcast. Second, these materials were organized into the Pressbook with accessible, inclusive, and complete activities for teacher use. We invite faculty to utilize the Pressbook activities, join our group to learn to build their own annotation teams and generate OER for primary literature-based science podcasts, and investigate the impact of these trainings and materials on student science literacy, identity, and motivation.