By Aylin Marz, Jennifer Buntz, and Susan Meiers

Discussion questions to help guide students examining a graph of number of mitoses vs time for planaria injured or had amputations of their tails.

By Tamar Goulet and Sharon Maureen Homer-Drummond

Understanding the cascading effects of the transfer of maternal microbiome during a vaginal birth (vs. a c-section) to the well-being of a newborn.

By Jennifer Carmichael

San Diego Mesa College

Students learn about bottleneck events, population demographics and growth, ecological niches and competition, food chains/webs and ecological disturbances through past and current data on Gorongosa National Park.

Testing

I wanted to make sure everyone saw this update to the activity and associated video link.

Alida asked about an alternative to using plants and microscopes.

I have an activity called Botanical Phylocards that can accomplish the same thing.

Powerpoint files of the cards are posted here if you would like to use or edit.

Here are the prep notes I use for the algae ecosystem module.

2017 Hurricanes and Aerosols Simulation

Released on November 13, 2017

Tracking aerosols over land and water from August 1 to November 1, 2017. Hurricanes and tropical storms are obvious from the large amounts of sea salt particles caught up in their swirling winds.

The dust blowing off the Sahara, however, gets caught by water droplets and is rained out of the storm system.

Smoke from the massive fires in the Pacific Northwest region of North America are blown across the Atlantic to the UK and Europe.

This visualization is a result of combining NASA satellite data with sophisticated mathematical models that describe the underlying physical processes.

Music: Elapsing Time by Christian Telford [ASCAP], Robert Anthony Navarro [ASCAP]

Video downloads available with and without narration AND in several video formats.

Complete transcript available.

Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.

NASA visualization of the 2017 hurricane season and list of interactive simulations

https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12772

2017 Hurricanes and Aerosols Simulation

Released on November 13, 2017

Tracking aerosols over land and water from August 1 to November 1, 2017. Hurricanes and tropical storms are obvious from the large amounts of sea salt particles caught up in their swirling winds. The dust blowing off the Sahara, however, gets caught by water droplets and is rained out of the storm system.Smoke from the massive fires in the Pacific Northwest region of North America are blown across the Atlantic to the UK and Europe.

This visualization is a result of combining NASA satellite data with sophisticated mathematical models that describe the underlying physical processes.

Music: Elapsing Time by Christian Telford [ASCAP], Robert Anthony Navarro [ASCAP]

Video downloads available with and without narration AND in several video formats.

Complete transcript available.

Watch this video on the NASA Goddard YouTube channel.

Hurricane Visualizations of 2017 season from NASA and Interactive Hurricane Simulations 

Used in an Integrated Biological Principles II Class (Intro to Ecology/Evolution/Physiology) at University of Richmond.  

Each figure is presented as a pair of slides, the first with all axis labels and legends removed, and the second as the original figure. Students are asked to make observations about the unlabeled version and guess what pattern is represented.

Figures are roughly ordered by difficulty, and are intended to be incorporated one at a time into different class meetings over the course of the semester. The notes section for each figure gives some ideas for potential student responses or interesting features of the graphs.

Science in the Classroom (SitC) is a collection of freely available annotated research papers from the Science family of journals. Annotations include vocabulary, methods, descriptions of prior research, and explanations of major conclusions. Each paper has an educator's guide outlining connections to science competencies within STEM learning frameworks and standards, as well as suggested activities and resources for further exploration of the subject.

Teaching evolution using the Anole research system and HHMI BioInteractive resources

BIOMAAP aims to help undergraduate biology majors improve their attitudes and decrease their anxiety towards mathematics, and thus to help faculty teach quantitative topics in biology

This resource provides more information Team-Based Learning (TBL), a student-centered learning resource referenced in Vision & Change. The paper provides an overview of TBL implementation and elaborates on the use of IF-AT cards as assessment instruments for college and university faculty.

This is an attitudes and assessments instrument available through the Aikens lab at UNH

Datasets  R Code  R Pubs

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HHMI partner paper, connects with CSI Wildlife activities