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    Keywords: writingreflective writingmath attitudesResources @ BIOMAAP

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    Exam Reflective Writing Activities (4 different prompts)
    This is an extended version of Reflective Writing activities to use before 4 different exams.

    Keywords: reflective writing

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    Reflective Writing - 2-page handout & Teaching Notes
    This activity introduces the research showing a benefit of reflective writing, and then uses a modified version of the prompt from Park et al. to provide practice. Includes Teaching Notes.

    Keywords: writingreflective writingmath attitudesResources @ BIOMAAP

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    Reflective Writing Prompt
    This activity introduces the research showing a benefit of reflective writing, and then uses a modified version of the prompt from Park et al. to provide practice.

    Keywords: writingreflective writingmath attitudesResources @ BIOMAAP

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    Reflective Writing Adapted for Non-Majors
    This activity introduces the research showing a benefit of reflective writing, and then uses a modified version of the prompt from Park et al. to provide practice. The prompts have been modified...

    Keywords: writingreflective writingmath attitudesResources @ BIOMAAP

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    Reflective Writing
    This activity introduces the research showing a benefit of reflective writing, and then uses a modified version of the prompt from Park et al. to provide practice.

    Keywords: writingreflective writingmath attitudesResources @ BIOMAAP

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    Reflective Writing Tools: Building Skills and Habits of Thinking in Becoming a Scientist
    Reflective writing tools are intended to help students better connect current learning experiences to prior learning, engage the role of emotion in current and future learning, and assess learning...

    Keywords: STEM educationreflective writingMentorshipambiguityindependenceperseverance

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    Visits to the writing center and office hours provide students structured reflection and low-stakes feedback on scientific writing in an Introductory Biology course
    Effective written communication of scientific concepts is a critical, but difficult skill for undergraduate STEM majors to acquire. Oftentimes, the grades of lab reports are negatively impacted by...

    Keywords: scientific writingwater qualityanalysis of results

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    Intro to BIOMAAP - Student Math Anxiety Overview
    This presentation is intended as a stand alone 45 minutes-1 hour presentation to give students general information on math anxiety and a few strategies to try on their own.

    Keywords: math attitudesResources @ BIOMAAP

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    Intro to BIOMAAP - Faculty Math Anxiety Overview
    This presentation is intended as a stand alone 45 minute-1 hour presentation to introduce faculty or other instructors to the idea of math anxiety and some strategies they can use in their own...

    Keywords: math attitudesResources @ BIOMAAP

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    Manuscript 101: A Data-Driven Writing Exercise for Beginning Scientists
    Learning to write a scientific manuscript is one of the most important and rewarding scientific training experiences, yet most young scientists only embark on this experience relatively late in...

    Keywords: geneticsanimaldevelopmentcompetitionbacterial

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    Intro to BIOMAAP - Student Math Anxiety Overview
    This presentation is intended as a stand alone 45 minutes-1 hour presentation to give students general information on math anxiety and a few strategies to try on their own.

    Keywords: math attitudesResources @ BIOMAAP

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    SWP Biology Writing Resource Guide
    This Guide was created by the STEM Writing Project at Wake Forest University. We are STEM teachers and education researchers who want to make scientific writing a bigger part of students' training....

    Keywords: teaching scientific writing

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    Wikipedia in the Science Classroom
    Despite research suggesting that writing-to-learn exercises (WTL) in the classroom are associated with increased student learning, WTL is still not widely implemented in science courses. To provide...

    Keywords: scientific writingcritical evaluationWikipediawriting for general public

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    Facilitating Scientific Literacy Through Writing: A Write-to-Learn Assignment for Large Introductory Undergraduate Biology Courses
    Write-to-learn (WTL) assignments have been used in a variety of disciplines to encourage conceptual learning and critical thinking in undergraduate education. These assignments focus on...

    Keywords: geneticsEvolutionecologyCellsPlants form and functionAnimals form and function

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    Teaching students to read, interpret, and write about scientific research: A press release assignment in a large, lower-division class
    A central skill in any science discipline is the ability to read, understand, and discuss the primary literature of the discipline. However, teaching this skill presents unique challenges within...

    Keywords: cell biologyScience Communicationscientific literacyGraduate Teaching Assistant Professional DevelopmentBiological LiteracyPrimary ResearchWriting Skills

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    Data, Distributions, and Hypotheses: Exploring Diversity and Disturbance in the Tallgrass Prairie
    Proper hypothesis generation, data handling, graphing, and communication are essential skills that undergraduate majors in biology are expected to master. However, students rarely get hands-on...

    Keywords: Quantitative reasoningRestoration EcologyScience process skillstall grass prairie ecosystem

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    Plant-microbial mutualisms in canopy gap recovery: How do soil microbial symbionts help tropical forests recover from treefall gaps?
    This module uses tropical plant-soil microbial interactions in canopy gaps as a lens to better understand species interactions and disturbance ecology, while showing how scientists study these...

    Keywords: forest ecologyPlant Ecologynutrient cyclingmicrobestropical forestsDisturbances

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    Restoring Tropical Forests: Implementing an online module in an undergraduate biology course in Indonesia
    This resource describes my implementation of a module on tropical forest restoration in Costa Rica for an undergraduate Ecology course at Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia....

    Keywords: RestorationEcosystem Servicesforest restorationtransdisciplinary researchsocial forestryhuman well-beingcommunity-based

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    Consumable Science – Teaching Students to Translate Science for the General Public
    Poster about assignments with an emphasis on non-technical writing for a general audience. Presented at the 2021 BIOME Institute.

    Keywords: Scientific communicationscientific writing2021 BIOMEnon-technical writingtechnical writing

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