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Plants by the Numbers II:

Growing Quantitative Literacy Using Botany

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Goals

  • Increase awareness of plants in biology classrooms
  • Increase amount of data shown in biology classrooms
  • Form a community with these goals in mind
  • Educate faculty members on botanical and data skills resources

Mentors


Final Products

In this activity, students will use data from natural parks to examine trophic cascades.
case study, Biodiversity, plants, trophic cascades, national parks
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12.2018
In this lab, students perform phylogenetic analyses on morphological, anatomical and molecular data, and compare.
morphology, phylogeny, laboratory, plants, molecular analysis, stele architecture
1.0K
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12.2018
In this lab, students will work with messy data to try to answer the question “How do plants inherit cotyledon color?”
genetics, plants, phenotype, cotelydon
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416
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12.2018
In this activity, students will use data from natural parks to examine trophic cascades.
case study, Biodiversity, plants, trophic cascades, national parks
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337
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12.2018
This module focuses on the dispersal of seeds from trees in fragmented tropical forests. Students use data from published studies to understand patterns of seed dispersal and apply these ideas to the design of a conservation area.
ecology, Resources @ HHMI - BioInteractive, community, plants, diversity, Scientific Process
1.0K
499
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12.2018
In this lab, students will work with a simple algae/brine shrimp environment to learn about food chains and population dynamics.
ecology, ecosystems, food chain, algae
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12.2018
In this lab, students review the characteristics of the major land plant lineages. Then they perform phylogenetic analyses based on morphological characters.
morphology, phylogeny, laboratory, plants, molecular analysis
1.1K
632
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12.2018