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    Why, when, and how to cite sources of biodiversity specimen data
    This short video and assessment explain why we as scientists should cite our data sources and how we can do this for sources of biodiversity specimen data.
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    What Moves You?
    Using various bone segments to create joints that will explain planar movement and then develop a mechanical model of different joint types that will allow certain movement in a robotic unit.
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    Setting Up Nonparametric Tests
    This swirl lesson will show you how to rearrange your data within R from one that shows a multiple factor design (2 x 2) to a single factor (4 levels) to allow for data analyses that require...
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    Digital Laboratory Framework via Canvas for LIFE courses at Colorado State University
    The Life Lab Revisions team has piloted a Canvas-based approach to building scientific competencies in labs.

    Keywords: online learningvirtual lab

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    Encouraging student collaboration and networking and improving student access to undergraduate research opportunities.
    We describe, as a case study, work done by two undergraduate students on a specific enzyme in the ciliate Tetrahymena thermophila.

    Keywords: undergraduate researchstudent researchenzymes

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    My Twin Sister Case Study
    A young boy wonders why his twin sister can roll his tongue, but he cannot. Case centers on meiosis.

    Keywords: case studymeiosistwins

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    Earth Analytics Bootcamp Course
    The Earth Analytics Bootcamp is a three-week introductory-level course taught by instructors in Earth Lab and is a part of the Professional Certificate in Earth Data Analytics - Foundations at CU...

    Keywords: data analysisdatadata typesdata visualizationdata scienceearth sciencepythonremote sensingGeographic Information System (GIS)data science educationdcomputer programmingwildfireearth analytics

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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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    Predator-Prey Interactions: Selective foraging by wolf spiders
    This interactive case study is intended for use in lower-division biology or ecology courses to complement the SimUText (SimBio) chapter entitled Predation, Herbivory and Parasitism.
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    UW Data Science for Social Good program
    The UW Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) program partners eScience Data Scientists and Student Fellows from across the country with Project Leads from academia, government, and the private sector...
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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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    Seed Dispersal in Tropical Forests: Learning How Plants Move Around
    This module focuses on the dispersal of seeds from trees in fragmented tropical forests. Students use data from published studies to understand patterns of seed dispersal and apply these ideas to...

    Keywords: ecologyResources @ HHMI - BioInteractivecommunityplantsdiversityScientific Process

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    Leaf litter and soil invertebrates
    The diversity of invertebrates occupying the leaf litter and organic layer of soil can be quantified to examine abiotic and biotic questions. This lab can be used as a starting point for a...
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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.

    Keywords: Evolutionexperimental designsexual dimorphismsexual selectionNatural SelectionWidowbirdsbirdintrasexual selectionintersexual selectionhandicap hypothesis

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    How Many More Thymes? A Case of Phytochemical Defense
    National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science- this clicker case addresses several concepts related to the evolutionary ecology of herbivore defenses.

    Keywords: food websgenotypephenotypeHerbivoryherbivoredeterrencemonoterpeneproducerchemotypeThymus vulgaristhymeMediterranean ecosystemchemical defenses

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    Design a Zoo (Grades 6-8)
    This classroom lesson presents students with the job of designing a zoo, which could include modeling tasks ranging from choosing and locating the exhibits to setting the right admission prices.
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    Design a Zoo (Grades 3-5)
    This classroom lesson presents students with the job of designing a zoo, which could include modeling tasks ranging from choosing and locating the exhibits to setting the right admission prices.

    Keywords: unit costbudgetsdistance

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    Addressing Complex, Emergent Risks in 21st Century Natural-Human Systems
    Presentation on wicked problems in natural-human systems

    Keywords: climate changeSummer Workshop 2018environmental systemsfinancial risksystem of systems

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    Teaching R with Swirl
    Session presentation on using Swirl, an interactive platform for learning and teaching R in the R console

    Keywords: Rdata analysisprogrammingSummer Workshop 2018Swirl

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    Bio+: Integration of Biology Principles and Application in Cross-Disciplinary Curricula
    Poster on two cross-disciplinary courses at Olin College presented at the 2018 QUBES/BioQUEST Summer Workshop

    Keywords: cross-disciplinary instructionSummer Workshop 2018

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