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    Students examine the diversity of human cell sizes and number using scientific notation
    In this powerpoint, several of the resources from the published module 'Sizes, Scales and Specialization' are used to create a mini-module that has students examine the size and abundance of...

    Keywords: ExponentsRatiosqbccmanipulate equationsCellular and Molecular Biologyconverting unitschanging scales

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    Sizes, Scales and Specialization: Adapted to add scientific notation review
    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. The adaptation has...

    Keywords: ExponentsRatiosScientific Notationcell typeqbccmanipulate equationsCellular and Molecular Biologyconverting unitschanging scales

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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.

    Keywords: ExponentsRatiosCellsqbccmanipulate equationsCellular and Molecular BiologyVisual Accommodationsconverting unitschanging scales

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    Human Population Growth and Greenhouse Gas Emissions
    Humans alter the climate by emitting greenhouse gases, by changing planetary albedo, and by altering atmospheric chemistry. Between 1900 and 2000, humans' emissions of carbon into the atmosphere...

    Keywords: demographyhuman populationgreenhouse gas emissions

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    Climate Drivers of Phenology Across Scales (adapted during Project EDDIE FMN)
    This activity explores the question: how is bumblebee phenology affected by climate, and are patterns in the phenology of an organism better explained at smaller scales?
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    The Perfect Brew: An Activity Demonstrating Cell Counting and Hemocytometer Use
    In this activity, students will explore the use of a hemocytometer for counting cells, demonstrate the relationship between the grid seen in the microscope with volume of liquid in suspension and...

    Keywords: RatiosmicrobiologyqbccCellular and Molecular BiologyUnderstanding fractionsconverting unitschanging scalesmeasurements

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    The Perfect Brew: An Activity Demonstrating Cell Counting and Hemocytometer Use
    In this activity, students will explore the use of a hemocytometer for counting cells, demonstrate the relationship between the grid seen in the microscope with volume of liquid in suspension and...

    Keywords: RatiosmicrobiologyqbccCellular and Molecular BiologyUnderstanding fractionsconverting unitschanging scalesmeasurements

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    Simple Heat Maps with Morpheus
    Learn how to load an Excel file of raw data into Morpheus and change between relative and global scales.

    Keywords: Excelbioinformaticsgenomicsyoutubemorpheusheat maps

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    Spatial Justice, Marginal Populations, and Data Integrity
    Spatial justice refers to the consequential geography of a place where spaces are socially produced. Understanding how spatial injustice is created at different spatial scales is an essential part...

    Keywords: data sciencespatial justicedata integrity

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    Regulation Across Scales: Data Points Icebreaker Jigsaw
    Students examine regulation at cellular, physiological, and ecological scales in a data-based jigsaw to explore how double-negative logic operates across biological systems. This was used as a...

    Keywords: pathwaysgene regulationtrophic cascadesregulationcross-scalecholesterol synthesisLac OperonYellowstone

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    Regulation Across Scales: Data Points on How Life Works
    We examined the scientific literature for simple, data-based illustrations of double-negative logic in the regulation of biological systems as described by Sean B. Carroll in his text, The...
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    Tell Them We Don't Want to Leave: The Marshallese and Sea-Level Rise (2014-10) | SESYNC
    This case study will expose students to the ways in which social-environmental systems operate and connect across different scales.

    Keywords: case studysocio-environmental data

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    Calculating and Comparing Biodiversity Materials Across Sites Using NEON Herbaceous Vegetation Data - a Tutorial
    These materials are intended for use at the undergraduate level. They employ R and Excel software.
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    Cross-Scale Interactions (Project EDDIE)
    Students explore new modeling and computing tools while learning fundamental concepts about how lake phytoplankton blooms occur through cross-scale interactions.

    Keywords: modelingProject EDDIE

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    Climate Change Module (Project EDDIE)
    Students explore how climate is changing from the recent record. Produced by Project EDDIE.
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    Climate Change Module (Project EDDIE)
    Students explore how climate is changing from the recent record. Produced by Project EDDIE.

    Keywords: climate dataclimate changevolcanoes and climateclimate trends

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    Climate Change Module (Project EDDIE)
    Students explore how climate is changing from the recent record. Produced by Project EDDIE.
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    Climate Change Module (Project EDDIE)
    Students explore how climate is changing from the recent record. Produced by Project EDDIE. This module was adapted for students using R and RStudio.
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    Climate Change Module (Project EDDIE)
    Students explore how climate is changing from the recent record. Produced by Project EDDIE.
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    The Carbon Cycle, Climate Change, and Feedback Loops
    I combined material from the Carbon, Climate and Energy Resources Module and the Changing Biosphere Module to help students understand climate change, the carbon cycle, and feedback loops in my...
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