This module uses a variety of available datasets to explore methods of calculating biodiversity and measuring landscape as well as the relationship between those. These points are then used to teach logarithms by estimating slopes and intercepts from a log-log plot of the number of species in a given location against a variety of metrics including island size and distance from mainland. Optionally, this could then be adapted to fragmented habitats near a national park or the like. Finally, the plots are used to estimate the level of fragmentation that would push the system to a given level of species loss.

We based our instructional unit on the premise that many people have, that one does not need mathematics if the they do not plan on attending college or pursuing careers known for involving mathematics. A huge misconception many students have is that mathematics has no relevance in the blue-collar industry. The goals of this lesson are to dispell this myth, to demonstrate, explore and discuss mathematics through a field operation, and through investigative activities to extend the concepts from the farm to general mathmematics with the use of technology. We will use a field trip to a local Dairy Farm, Gilbert and Sons Dairy Farm, to achieve these goals.

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This is a Powerpoint presentation which motivated a panel discussion on "What Makes Networks Work?" at the RCN-UBE Summit at AAAS in January 2016.

A presentation given by Laurel Anderson on EREN (Ecological Research and Education Network) contributions to science, given at the RCN-UBE meeting in January 2016.

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This site links to the meeting reports as well as individual papers submitted by attendees at the conference. 

"The diagnostic question clusters (DQC's) created for this project are designed to help professors unpack their students' understanding of biological and ecological processes, identifying smaller scale problems that limit large scale understanding. In particular these DQC's identify levels of student reasoning about matter and energy transformations occurring during these processes."

CI's on various topics from San Diego State University.

beSocratic is a tool not specifically related to CI's, but is a helpful tool nonetheless. 

"BeSocratic is an online assessment system focused on addressing these two goals, i.e. providing students with proper feedback and teachers with meaningful analysis. On the student side, BeSocratic is able to recognize student drawings and respond with meaningful feedback based on the drawings. On the analysis side, BeSocratic contains sophisticated clustering techniques which group students based on the similarly of their submissions. This allows teachers to only look at a small subset of student submissions and quickly get an overview of an entire class's understanding level."

A CI designed specifically for Introductory Biology courses through the Bioliteracy Project. This CI was built with a "focus on conceptual misconceptions, preconceived notions, and vernacular misconceptions."

"Designed to complement the First Year Undergraduate Experimental Design Inventory, this inventory was developed because there is a great need for students to be able to critically analyze data accurately in order to make informed decisions and come to reliable conclusions. Again, this skill transfers beyond Biology, and Science, because the ability to assess the validity of any research-based claim will provide the opportunity to make better life choices."

"Concept Inventories that are being developed by various members of the Q4B Team... Included is information regarding the rationale behind development, how many questions have been - or will be - developed, the anticipated development timeframe until the inventory is ready for use, and any other inventory-specific information such as important teaching notes/guides."

This is the data management site for the HvZ game.  This is where you register games, players can sign up for your game, chat with each other, report tags, etc.

This is the main website that talks about the game generally and has a HvZ store.

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Datasets  R Code  R Pubs

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For most of the history of organized scientific research, the limitations of technology made print journals the chief means of disseminating scientific results. But some #ASAPbio advocates argue that since the rise of the Internet, biologists have been abdicating their duty to the public — which pays for most academic research — by not sharing results as quickly and openly as possible.

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One of the greatest minds in 20th Century statistics was not a scholar. He brewed beer.

Guinness brewer William S. Gosset’s work is responsible for inspiring the concept of statistical significance, industrial quality control, efficient design of experiments and, not least of all, consistently great tasting beer.

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Ultimately, the best way to live a life by science is to ignore most of what you read in science news and instead take a little time to grasp high quality resources...In the end, it is up to you to be skeptical when hearing new claims. A simple rule of thumb is to never change your behavior because of a single study in the news.

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