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Working collaboratively in teams, students engage in targeted projects to address critical information and research needs. Each team uses the scientific process to conduct research using digital data resources. The final product is an infographic that uses data visualization to communicate a science “story.” The infographic uses engaging visuals to quickly and clearly communicate the data and problem complexity. 

Students completing this series of exercises will be able to:

• understand the fundamentals of the scientific process (“scientific literacy”) and the value it can add to solving biological questions
• identify appropriate data and evidence to address a critical research question
• Investigate existing data resources
• Access appropriate data resources
• Clean, configure and standardize a dataset 
• Critically evaluate information derived from a dataset
• Analyze and visualize data for effective communication of science
• Apply scientific and technical knowledge to specific tasks and problems
• Engage in independent learning, critical thinking, problem definition, and problem solving
• Participate effectively in individual and team-related activities
• Apply ethics in the practice of science

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• BLUE Group Infographic Project.docx(DOCX | 358 KB)
• The Great Caribou Decline Infographic(PDF | 3 MB)
• What is the Harp about Asian Carp Infographic(PDF | 4 MB)
• Tinder Tom Infographic(PDF | 852 KB)
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Researchers should cite this work as follows:

• Monfils, A., Linton, D. (2020). Communicating with Data: Infographic with Digital Data. Biodiversity Literacy in Undergraduate Education, QUBES Educational Resources. doi:10.25334/4H38-8A18

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1. Activity Length
2. Advanced
3. Audience Level
4. biodiversity collections
5. course-based research experiences (CUREs)
6. databases
7. data in the classroom
8. digital collections
9. Extended Project
10. Homework
11. Instructional Setting
12. introductory
13. Lab
14. Lecture
15. Less than 1 hour
16. Majors
17. Online course
18. Teaching material
19. Undergraduate
20. undergraduate research