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    Terrestrial Trophic Cascades & Population Structure
    In this activity, students will use data from natural parks to examine trophic cascades.

    Keywords: case studyBiodiversityplantsResource Typetrophic cascadesnational parks

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    Are you teaching biostatistics with R? Suggestions to help you as work with your students.
    Teaching students how to code and analyze data in R is important for the fields of biology and ecology. Olivia Tabares and the Ecological Forecasting Education Working Group created this resource...

    Keywords: biostatisticsecologybiologyR code

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    Trophic Cascades, Population Structure, and the Role of Keystone Species
    In this activity, students will use data from natural parks to examine terrestrial trophic cascades. Concepts will then be applied to examples in freshwater ecosystems.

    Keywords: case studyBiodiversityplantsResource Typetrophic cascadesnational parks

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    Investigating Determinants of Richness in Ephemeral and Permanent Wetlands Using Linear Models in Shiny
    This resource seeks to provide a quantitative platform by which students can be taught about interactive effects using the TIEE module created by Little (2018). Key to the adaptation is the use of...

    Keywords: aquatic macroinvertebrateslinear regressionhypothesis testingshinywetlands

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    Nextstrain adaptations for Understanding COVID-19
    This resource introduces students to the use of Nextstrain and Nextclade to visualize the phylogeny of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern and variants of interest. Terminology and an introduction to...

    Keywords: uniprotCOVID19SARS-CoV-2NextstrainNextcladeSpike glycoproteinVariants of Concern

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    iDigBio Tutorial - BLUE Resource
    A user guide and video instructions for iDigBio

    Keywords: databasesQuerying databasesdata in the classroombiodiversity informaticsbiodiversity collections

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    DNA Barcoding & Biodiversity databases
    This resource pairs DNA barcoding databases with Biodiversity databases. Students collect their insect specimens in the field and use BLAST and BOLD to identify their species. They then use...
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    An Adaptation of "Lichens in Diverse Landscapes" for BIO 3400 Ecology at Greensboro College
    This resource includes a lichen data analysis lab that I adapted for students in BIO 3400 Ecology, an upper level in person course at Greensboro College that met during the Fall 2020 semester.

    Keywords: NEONNational Ecological Observatory Network

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    Neochromosomes: Creating transcriptional units with yeast Golden Gate assembly
    This resource is a series of protocols using the yeast Golden Gate (yGG) method as developed by Neta Agmon and Leslie Mitchell in Jef Boeke’s lab to assemble a functional yeast gene with...
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    Transpiration- Adapted for online
    In this adaptation, the lab is completed remotely.

    Keywords: plant physiologybotanylaboratoryonline labremote

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    Guide de Découverte des Phages
    La ressource « Guide de Découverte des Phages » est une traduction en français du manuel en ligne Phage Discovery Guide, offrant ainsi une ressource aux enseignants et apprenants dont la langue...

    Keywords: phageprotocolsHHMI SEAPHAGES resources

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    SIR BuildIt
    An introduction to epidemiological models using interactive Excel worksheets

    Keywords: modelinginfectious diseaseInfectious Disease ModelingSIR modelsSIR

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    SWP Biology Writing Resource Guide
    This Guide was created by the STEM Writing Project at Wake Forest University. We are STEM teachers and education researchers who want to make scientific writing a bigger part of students' training....

    Keywords: teaching scientific writing

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    Developing a community resource to find and share summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) opportunities
    Instructors can use this module to introduce students to searching for and identifying summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) online, with a focus on National Science Foundation (NSF)...

    Keywords: Resources @ NSF - NCCSTSecology labField researchREUresearch experience for undergraduatesfield ecology

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    Flow regime and the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) wadeable stream sites
    This resource uses discharge data from three of NEON's wadeable stream sites to illustrate how streams can differ in their flow regimes using graphical analysis of annual hydrographs.

    Keywords: NEONstreamsstreamflow

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    NSF Final Outcomes Report: Using the Lived Experiences and Narratives of Black Heritage and African American Gullah/Geechee to Learn Science Concepts
    This resource is a public report that provides final outcomes from the NSF funded project award # 1928832. The resources included in this report are outcomes from the catalyst project titled:...

    Keywords: biologyEquityenvironmental scienceScience curriculumdiversityinclusion#NGSSBlack representationbelongingusing lived experiences and narrativesBlack heritageGullah/Geechee

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    Advanced Student Molecular Case Study Authorship Scaffolded Project and Rubric
    Instructions, assignment prompts, and a rubric for assessing advanced undergraduate authorship of molecular case studies
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    Hemocytometer and Counting Cells Cell Block
    This resource describes how to count cells using a hemocytometer.

    Keywords: lab protocolcounting cells

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    HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT AQUATIC LAB (HEAL) CURE
    Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs) provide students with genuine research experiences and associated skills in the classroom. This resource, the HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT AQUATIC LAB...

    Keywords: undergraduate researchField researchcollaborationcourse-based research experiences (CUREs)

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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.

    Keywords: Community EcologyspidersMicrosoft ExcelShannon diversity index

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