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    Why Cells Change Weight: Demonstrating Linear Regression Through an Osmosis Experiment
    In this activity, students will perform an experiment utilizing dialysis tubing to create cellular models to demonstrate the linear relationship between cell weight and time in varying tonicities....

    Keywords: graphingqbccCellular and Molecular BiologyInterpret graphsConcepts in Statistics

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    Exploring the Lotka-Volterra Competition Model using Two Species of Parasitoid Wasps
    Experiment included in Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology (TIEE) Volume 2

    Keywords: population dynamicsResources @ ESA - TIEEspecies interactionscompetition models

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    Getting Started: Drug Treatment Calculations
    This assignment will help teach students...

    Keywords: experimentMicropipettingcalculationsdrug calculation

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    Linkage Analysis
    This Excel workbook simulates a linkage analysis problem with up to four alleles. Based on the offspring produced by a multihybrid testcross, the user builds a model of the gene order,...

    Keywords: recombinationlinkage analysis

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    Selection and the Blond Beach Mouse
    National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science- this "clicker" case study explores ultimate and proximate explanations for cryptic coloration in animals.
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    Two-Way ANOVA
    In this lesson, students will learn the necessary statistical terms to understand two-way ANOVA, how to visualize their data, how to perform two-way ANOVA and interpret their results, and how to...

    Keywords: undergraduate researchANOVA

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    Performing a Population Viability Analysis from Data Students Collect on a Local Plant
    Experiment included in Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology (TIEE) Volume 9

    Keywords: RResources @ ESA - TIEEmatrix model

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    Urban Ecology
    This video describes the field of urban ecology and features scientists who use the city as their field site.

    Keywords: videosecologyurban ecologyScience Forward

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    Temperature Balance Equation Activity
    Students learn about the temperature balance equation. They then conduct a thought experiment (with a worksheet) using the components of the equation to manage their heat balance for survival on a...

    Keywords: equationtemperatureheatevaporationconductionconvectionMetabolicRadiation

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    BLAST Exercises for Analyzing Cloning Results
    Genome Solver began as a way to teach undergraduate faculty some basic skills in bioinformatics; no coding or scripting is required. These activities have modified Lesson 1: Introduction to Genome...

    Keywords: Bioinformatics EducationBioinformatics and Genomics

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    Carbon Footprint: A Study of Unit and Dimensions
    In this module, we integrate the context of carbon emission and human consumption into an introductory lesson on units and estimation.

    Keywords: modulecarbon foot printResources @ DIMACSResources @ QUBES - Teaching & Referencescienceexperiment

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    Drivers of Avian Local Species Richness: Continental-Scale Gradients, Regional Landscape, or Local Land Cover?
    Experiment included in Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology (TIEE) Volume 8

    Keywords: ecologyResources @ ESA - TIEEspecies richness

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    Selection and the Blond Beach Mouse
    National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science- this "clicker" case study explores ultimate and proximate explanations for cryptic coloration in animals.

    Keywords: Evolutionexperimental designadaptationmutationNatural Selectionultimate explanationproximate explanationevolutionary fitnessmelanincoat colorationcrypsisMc1rAgouticonvergence

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    Draft Version: Energy Balance Models
    This module introduces the student to the process of mathematical modeling.

    Keywords: modulemathematical modelingbenergy balanceclimate modelDIMACSResources @ DIMACSclimatein-class activityResources @ QUBES - Teaching & Referencescienceexperiment

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    Freezer Full of Fossils v2.0
    The Long Term Evolution Experiment started by Dr. Richard Lenski provides a rich dataset to help students explore concepts of fitness, replication, and adaption.

    Keywords: graphingfitnessadaptationcompetitionSpreadsheet

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    Food Chain Dynamics In A Simple Ecosystem
    In this lab, students will work with a simple algae/brine shrimp environment to learn about food chains and population dynamics. It was implemented with limited alteration for an Introductory...

    Keywords: ecologyecosystemsfood chain

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    Quantifying Bacterial Growth in the Guts and Hemolymph of Fruit Flies: Mathematical Modeling and Data Interpolation/Extrapolation
    In this activity, students will analyze raw data obtained from an experiment that explores the effect of overexpressing the Ssk protein in order to strengthen the intestinal barrier and prevent...

    Keywords: graphingexponential growthlinear modelsqbccinterpolationConcepts in Statistics and Precalculus Understanding exponential rates and linear slopesExtrapolation

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    E. coli Citrate Use
    EvoEd module on citrate use in E.coli

    Keywords: modulephylogeneticsecologycell biologymolecular genetics

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    Winter is Coming! Data Nuggets Module - Adapted for Preservice Elementary Teachers
    Adaptation of Data Nuggets Module Winter is Coming! for an Elementary Education Science Methods Course

    Keywords: teacher educationscience teacher preparationData Nuggetmiddle grades (4-9)

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    Scratch Assay (Cell Migration) Cell Block
    A video tutorial and pedagogy notes describing how to measure cell migration using a wound/scratch assay. This is an inexpensive and relatively easy experiment. A micropublication that used this...

    Keywords: wound healingcourse-based research experiences (CUREs)Cell culture-based researchScratch AssayCell migrationCancer cell biology

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