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    Choosing healthy data for healthy relationships: how to use 5-point summaries, box and whisker plots, and correlation to understand global health trends.
    This module utilizes a user-friendly database exploring data selection, box-and-whisker plot, and correlation analysis. It also guides students on how to make a poster of their data and conclusions.

    Keywords: Querying databasesgraphingRatiosdata typesstatistical learningcorrelationBox Plotsqbcchealth sciences education researchnutrition & food scienceUnderstanding ratesCreate graphsInterpret graphsinterpret tablesHealth ScienceConcepts in Statisticsexplaining statisticsusing statistics

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    Investigating human impacts on stream ecology: locally and nationally
    TIEE Module- How does nutrient pollution impact stream ecosystems locally and nationally? This is an adaptation of the module that includes statistical testing and links sections to a lab report...
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    When food gets scarce: how plant-pollinator interactions will shift under global change
    In this lesson, students review plant-pollinator interactions and global change concepts. Next, students interpret graphs of pollinator visitation data to Scarlet Gilia. Then, students view and...

    Keywords: mutualismsgraph interpretationCommunity Ecologyplantsfmnglobal changepollinatorsBioGraphIrepresentation in STEM

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    Investigating human impacts on stream ecology: locally and nationally
    This is a modification of an original TIEE Module, investigating these questions: How does nutrient pollution impact stream ecosystems locally and nationally? How does land cover change impact...

    Keywords: tool:rstudiolandscape ecologyStream ecologyBox Plotsland usespatial analysisEutrophication

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    REMNet Tutorial, R Part 3: Creating Alpha Diversity Plots in R 5.2.19
    Video on creating alpha diversity plots in R from the Research Experiences in Microbiomes Network

    Keywords: VideoMicrobiology EducationR programming languagemicrobiomesCoastal wetlandsmanagementnortheastsea-level risesalt marshresearch in the classroomREMNeturban microbiomes

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    Mystery box puzzle for model based reasoning
    This is a computer based problem solving activity that I use to engage introductory biology students with discussions about model based reasoning.

    Keywords: Model Based ReasoningScientific reasoningpuzzle

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    A Tough Choice in Watershed Management
    In this Team-based activity, students work in teams, playing the role of natural resource managers who must decide in which region to invest limited funding for nutrient reduction in streams....

    Keywords: Stream ecologyBox PlotsSpreadsheetGroup cooperative learningTeam-based LearningBiogeochemical cycles

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    Pesticide-Driven Bee Mortality: An Introduction to Survival Analysis in R
    In this lesson, students will receive an introduction to survival analysis in R utilizing data on bee mortality caused by pesticide exposure. In their code, students will assess survivability,...

    Keywords: chi-squaredsurvivalbeespesticidesRoundupsurvival analysissurvival plotsherbicides

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    A "Box of Lessons" for Exploring Biomolecular Structure and Function
    Biomolecular structure and function is emphasized as a core concept in a variety of community determined educational standards for biology and chemistry. Most curricula introduce students to the...

    Keywords: bioinformaticsproteinsRNADNAmolecular visualizationbiomolecular structurebiomolecular visualizationProtein Data BankPDBMolecular CaseNet FMN

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    Two-Species Model
    These two Excel worksheets simulate the population growth of two interacting species. In isolation, each species grows logistically, but interaction effects between species may limit or enhance...

    Keywords: population growthcompetition modelsLotka-Volterra

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    Phylogeography Simulator
    This Excel workbook simulates the phylogeography of an asexually reproducing species.

    Keywords: Phylogeographymutation ratesAsexual reproductionspecies dispersal

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    GeoPhyl
    This Excel workbook allows students to explore evolution over space and time using published data on the invasive plant Tamarix (salt cedar).

    Keywords: Invasive SpeciesTamarixsalt cedarpermutation testrandom geographic distribution

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    Investigating human impacts on Southeastern US stream ecology using R
    Adaptation of the "Investigating human impacts on stream ecology: Scaling up from Local to National with a focus on the Southeast" specifically to focus on self-paced R code instruction
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    Box of Lessons: A Toolkit for Introducing Students to Biomolecular Structure and Function
    This is a poster describing a collection of open educational resources that were developed by faculty participating in the Molecular CaseNet Faculty Mentoring Network in Spring 2022. The collection...

    Keywords: bioinformaticsbiomolecular structureProtein Data Bankresources @ Molecular CaseNet

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    Leslie/Lefkovitch Matrix Models for Age or Stage-structured Populations
    This Excel workbook uses the Leslie matrix model for population projection of age-class structured populations, and also allows Lefkovitch matrix models for stage-class structured populations.

    Keywords: survivalpopulation ecologyfecundityLeslie matrixeigenvalueseigenvectorsLefkovitch matrixage-class structured populationsstage-class structured populationsreproductive value

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    DeFinetti 1.0
    This Excel workbook simulates evolution of a single gene with three alleles. The user assigns fitness values to each of the six possible genotypes, then enters starting allele frequencies for each...

    Keywords: population geneticsallelesevolutionary fitness

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    Speed Data Science
    Data visualization is a foundational data science skill. One way to help students begin to learn about data visualization is to tap in to their innate creative instincts. This activity can be used...

    Keywords: data visualizationdata science educationlife sciences

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    Fitting Exponential and Logistic Growth Models to Bacterial Cell Count Data
    In this activity, students will model a noisy set of bacterial cell count data using both exponential and logistic growth models. For each model the students will plot the data (or a linear...

    Keywords: modelingdata analysislinear regressiongraphingExponentsoptimizationcalculusInterpreting GraphsFunctionsqbccCellular and Molecular BiologyChoosing modelsUnderstanding ratesConcepts in Statisticsmeasurementsmanipulating equationscreating graphsExponential and Logarithmic Functionsinterpreting tables

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    Phage Comparative Genomics Lab Manual
    A lab manual containing detailed instructions for several bioinformatics tools (dot plots, Phamerator maps, phylogenetic trees, and gene content similarity), all of which enable students to perform...

    Keywords: phageCUREcourse-based research experiences (CUREs)Comparative genomicsSEA-PHAGES

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    Island Biogeography
    The students will practice the basic code to test MacArthur and Wilson’s (1967) Island Biogeography model, focusing on how island size, distance, and perturbation affect species numbers.
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