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    Exaggerated Traits and Breeding Success in Widowbirds
    National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science- this interrupted case focuses on sexual selection in widowbirds.
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    Ferns are Everywhere
    Using spatial fern population data in hypothesis testing
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    A Walk Through the Woods
    Data driven curriculum module from Dryad Digital Repository
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    AVIDA exercise on the role of mutation in evolution
    A tested exercise at the college freshmen level using AVIDA-Ed to generate and test a hypothesis about the relationship between mutation rate and the probability of evolving a useful function in...
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    Luria-Delbruck
    These two workbooks model the evolution of phage resistance in a bacterial population under two alternative hypotheses.
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    The Chi-Square Test
    This module introduces how to determine whether observation is significantly different from expectation in the context of understanding Chi-square Test. It is intended for an introductory biology...
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    Disturbance and Succession an Active Learning Lecture
    Learning Objectives: Identify and understand examples of disturbance --- Provide examples of and know/understand the differences between primary and secondary succession --- Know how ecologists...
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    GSD QUBES Resource Draft (1)
    This QUBES module is focused towards AP Environmental studies courses. It includes hypothesis testing, transect sampling, Shannon Diversity Index, and scatter plot and bar graph creation in excel.
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    Presence of Vegetation in Relation to Slope in Yosemite Valley, California
    Here we examine the relationship between the slope of a terrain and vegetation, measured by NDVI levels. I used satellite data from Yosemite Valley to analyze and test for statistical...

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    Muscle Contraction
    This module introduces equations around muscle force in the context of understanding the Sliding Filament Model. It is intended for an introductory biology audience.
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    Ground Spider Survey QUBES Resource Draft (1)
    This QUBES Module aims to introduce students to standardized ecological field methods, measures of diversity, ArcGIS Online, and Excel. This is achieved through nocturnal survey of ground spiders.
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    The Effect of Different Fertilizer Treatments on the Sprouting Time and Growth of Cosmos seeds, seeds of the genus Myosotis Forget-Me-Not seeds, and Cruciferae Brassica nigra Mustard seeds
    During the past decade, climate change has become an important topic. A few ramifications include an excess amount of carbon dioxide and rising temperatures. It is predicted that ecosystems may...

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    Leaf cutter ant foraging
    This module introduces students to leaf-cutter ants in the rainforests of Panama. Students derive their own research hypotheses regarding ant foraging or allometric scaling relationships.
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    Introductory Data Science Pipeline Activity – Yellow Fever and Global Precipitation
    Students follow the steps of a tiny data science project from start to finish. They are given a research question "Are the number of cases of yellow fever associated with global average...
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    Lichens in Your Local Landscape
    This project uses Lichens to connect students with their local environmental air quality. Through a short lab session, students assess lichens growing on trees on their campus. They then use class...
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    Staying Alive: Extinction Risk: Introduction to Extinction and Extinction Bias
    Data driven curriculum module from Dryad Digital Repository
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