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    HSI - Student Research Journal - Vol.1 Issue 3 - Fall 2020
    The Headwaters Research Experience students have produced some fascinating research throughout our 10-week program. We encourage all to read their reports in our Vol. 1 - Issue 3 - Fall 2020...

    Keywords: scientific methodscience education

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    BIOME 2024 Workshop: “But we don’t teach ecology!”
    OCELOTS modules are open-access case studies in tropical ecology that promote active learning, quantitative skills, and systems thinking. This workshop is the prelude to a Fall FMN for adapting...

    Keywords: International researchtropical biologyBIOME 2024

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    Remote Sensing of Plants and Topography in R (Project EDDIE)
    Students will explore different possible abiotic drivers of plant growth, defined as greenness and height. In the final step, students will analyze data from around the United States and consider...
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    Snapshot Serengeti Online Lab
    Snapshot Serengeti is a fully online inquiry-based lab that uses real camera-trap data from Serengeti National Park in Tanzania to explore themes of tropical ecology and animal behavior.

    Keywords: ecologyspecies interactionscitizen scienceCommunity Ecologyanimal behaviormigration ecologyScience Communicationspecies distributionspredator-prey interactionsTropical ecologycamera trapsSerengetisavannah biome

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    Enzyme Kinetics: How Quickly Can Acetylcholinesterase Break Up Your Thoughts?
    This module contains exercises designed to help upper-level cell biology students understand the common graphical methods used to evaluate enzyme activity and to see the impact of inhibitors on...

    Keywords: cell biologyQuantitative reasoninginterdisciplinarylinear modelsInterpreting GraphsNIQBC2. Data and GraphsC4. mathematical modelsnonlinear models

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    Rescuing Data: Preserving Data for the Future
    Meet Diane Srivastava, director of the Canadian Institute for Ecology and Evolution, and learn how they sythesize and save biodiversity data.

    Keywords: metadatadigital datadata skillsBiodiversity Science

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    Summer 2022 Research Experience Presentations Night 1
    Join the students from Headwaters' Summer Research Program to share the outstanding original research projects they created this summer.

    Keywords: science educationstudent learningresearch projects for high school students

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    A discussion about tornado epidemiology with Dr. Kim Klockow McClain
    Are you ever curious about how tornados impact communities, which communities are most at risk, what are the determinants of fatality from tornados, and other related questions? Dr. Kim Klockow...

    Keywords: epidemiologyweathertornados

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    Corrosion and Space Travel with Dr. Eliza Montgomery
    We were able to sit down with Dr. Eliza Montgomery, the Materials Engineer and Corrosion Subject Matter expert at NASA, to talk about her path in science and what she does!

    Keywords: EngineersNASA

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    Bird Beak Adaptations
    Students will navigate through different stations experiencing simulations of adaptations, manipulations of 3D examples, and making connections to the standards to formulate hypotheses about...

    Keywords: EvolutionidigbiobirdsAnatomynatural history collectionsNatural Selection3D modelsAdaptations#NGSSVertebrate MorphologyoVert

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    Venom: To Kill or Cure?
    In this case study, students will explore concepts of evolution, protein structure and function, taxonomy, and methods of scientific inquiry in a real-world way.

    Keywords: EvolutionphylogeneticsidigbioAP Biologytaxonomynatural history collections3D modelsoVertVenomsnakesherps

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    All About Cod For Grades 3-5
    This activity uses background from The Cod's Tale by Mark Kurlansky and then uses a simple story to engage students in solving problems using several operations and algebraic thinking math standards.

    Keywords: fishNIMBiosword problemsfractionsfish harvestinggrades 3-5simple data plots

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    National Institute for STEM Evaluation and Research (NISER)
    Poster on program evaluation presented at the 2018 QUBES/BioQUEST Summer Workshop

    Keywords: evaluationNISERprogram evaluationSummer Workshop 2018

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    Training In-Service Teachers to Think Deeply About Modeling in the Common Core Movement
    Presentation given at the 2106 SIAM Conference on Applied Mathematics Education on graph theory.

    Keywords: modelingcommon core

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    Investigating the footprint of climate change on phenology and ecological interactions in north-central North America
    This is an FMN participant modification of the TIEE module "Investigating the footprint of climate change on phenology and ecological interactions in north-central North America,"...

    Keywords: ecologyIntroductoryLabfmnUndergraduateData DiscoveryInstructional SettingAudience LevelActivity LengthMore than 1 hour

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    Using a long-term data set from Ohio to analyze climate change and it’s impacts on phenology and ecological interactions
    This is an FMN participant modification of the TIEE module "Investigating the footprint of climate change on phenology and ecological interactions in north-central North America,"...

    Keywords: ecologyIntroductoryfmnLectureUndergraduateData DiscoveryInstructional SettingAudience LevelActivity Length1 Hour

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    Demography from “virtual” cemeteries
    This is an FMN participant modification of the TIEE module "Demography from physical cemeteries, “virtual cemeteries,” and census data" authored by Janet Lanza in 2012.

    Keywords: ecologyIntroductoryfmnLectureData DiscoveryInstructional SettingAudience LevelActivity LengthMore than 1 hour

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    Discovering biodiversity in Honduras with TJ Firneno
    TJ talks to us about the different types of biodiversity, why they are important, and about his research involving the discovery of a new species of microhylid in Honduras! If you or your students...

    Keywords: geneticsmorphologyBiodiversitytaxonomyamphibians

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    HSI - Student Research Journal - Vol.2 Issue 1 - Spring 2021
    The Headwaters Research Experience students have produced some fascinating research throughout our 10-week program. We encourage all to read their reports in our Vol. 2 - Issue 1 - Spring 2021...

    Keywords: scientific methodscience education

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    HSI - Student Research Journal - Vol.1 Issue 4 - Fall 2020
    The Headwaters Research Experience students have produced some fascinating research throughout our 10-week program. We encourage all to read their reports in our Vol. 1 - Issue 4 - Fall 2020...

    Keywords: scientific methodscience education

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