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    Sizes, Scales and Specialization: Using Relative Proportions and Scientific Notation to Highlight the Diversity of Cell Types
    This module explores how cell size and shape varies across cell types in the human body by having students calculate relative proportions of numbers in scientific notation.
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    Visual Datasets
    This downloadable module features imaginary animals and plants, and is meant to aid students in thinking about questions of evolution, classification, and phylogeny.
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    Mimicry in a Diverse Community of Arthropods
    Module exploring how researchers exposed arthropod mimics that use a golden patch to warn of unpalatability to predators with different prey preferences to determine how effective their warnings were.
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    The Tentative Nature of Science
    This part focuses on the tentative nature of science
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    The Power and Limits of Science
    This part focuses on the power and limits of science
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    The Language of Science
    This part focuses on the language of science
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    The Process of Science
    These slides give an overview of the process of science in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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    BETTSI - Basic Evolutionary Tree-Thinking Skills Instrument
    A short, multiple choice diagnostic designed to provide instructors with a quick check on students’ understanding of and ability to read and interpret phylogenies.
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    ABO Blood Group Frequencies
    An Excel workbook in which students can calculate blood type frequencies through different approaches (Hardy-Weinberg, quadratic formula, and the EM algorithm). The workbook shows the formulas...
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    The Tactile Clade Race
    This adaptation of the Vertebrate Clade Race provides a tactile approach to introduce basic tree reading skills for evolutionary phylogenies. Using a Universal Design for Learning informed...
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    Figure of the Week (Non-major's Biology)
    Students use their number sense to make observations and come up with reasonable guesses or explanations for the patterns shown.
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    Some Figures of the Day for Microbiology
    Students use their number sense to make observations and come up with reasonable guesses or explanations for the patterns shown. These are some specifically for microbiology.
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    Figure of the Day
    Students use their number sense to make observations and come up with reasonable guesses or explanations for the patterns shown.
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    PhyloCards: a fun approach to exploring the local Wissahickon biodiversity, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, PA
    PhyloCards are educational trading cards that teach people about biodiversity, conservation, and ecosystem relationships. We used this educational tool to explore the Wissahickon Valley's...
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    Calling Bullshit DCS 105 Bates College Figure of the Day
    Students use their number sense to make observations and come up with reasonable guesses or explanations for the patterns shown.
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    Exploring Microbial Diversity: An Interactive In-Class Assignment for Biology and Microbiology Courses
    This interactive assignment engages students in a hands-on exploration of microbial diversity and the importance of microbes in ecosystems. Designed for General Biology II and Introduction to...
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    Interpreting the Pseudocot Phylogeny
    Students use physical characteristics, genetics, and a fossil record of hypothetical flowering plants to develop fundamental phylogenetic tree-building skills.
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