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    Introduction to Assessing Biodiversity: Bivalves of the Rio Grande Area
    Learning to identify taxa is a key skill gained in many systematics classes. This module aims to introduce students to concepts and resources for identifying organisms and assessing species...

    Keywords: Biodiversityspecies distributionsdistance learninginvertebrate zoologyMuseum databases data literacyidentification

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    2020-TeachingModule-CarSuspension
    The modeling activity on car suspensions assumes that students have grappled with second order linear homogeneous differential equations with constant coefficients.

    Keywords: modulesuspensioncar suspensionsecond orderTeaching Module

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    Mitosis and Meiosis Resources
    New stop-motion ‘candymation’ videos of mitosis and meiosis, plus Instructor Guides and problem sets.

    Keywords: meiosislearningmitosisanimationscell division mechanismschromosomes

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    How to manage water in one of the driest states in the USA with Will Boyer
    Will Boyer is a hydrologist at the Nevada Division of Water Resources. In this talk, he covers how the agency manages water in this extremely dry state, the experience of being a professional...

    Keywords: hydrology

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    Introduction to R with Biodiversity Data
    Students will learn R basics while downloading biodiversity data from multiple data repositories. This module will walk students through installing R, navigating R,writing reproducible scripts in...
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    How does increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide disrupt ecological systems? Results from FACE experiments across the globe.
    This module synthesizes key findings from forested CO2 enrichment experiments over the last 3 decades. Students should have a basic working knowledge of climate change, ecosystem nutrient cycles...
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    Mutation and Equilibrium Worksheet
    This is a worksheet created for students to complete when doing the Mutation and Equilibrium MathBench activity.
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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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    Intro to DNA Subway Blue Line
    This is a classroom tested introductory lesson & activity to introduce DNA Barcoding and DNA Subway Blue Line. It is for novices and will fit into a 1 hr 50 min lecture or lab class period.

    Keywords: phylogeneticsNIBLSEDNA BarcodingDNA sequenceBLASTmultiple sequence alignment

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    Sea Turtles- A Case Study
    The case study on sea turtles will allow students to think about field work and examine graphs to understand data. It will provide experience for non-majors environmental science classes to think...
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    Cancer Discovery Activities
    These two hands-on activities are based on a Howard Hughes Medical Institute 2013 Holiday Lectures on Science video (http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/cancer-genetic-disease-video-highlights)...

    Keywords: geneticsResources @ HHMI - BioInteractiveorganismal biologyneurosciencegenomicscancergenetic basis of diseasebiology of cellsHigh School

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    A How to Guide and Template for Designing a Puzzle Based Escape Room Game
    Educational games are one active and effective way of engaging students with material while also providing additional motivation to tackle challenging concepts. A particularly popular game concept...

    Keywords: Problem SolvingCollaborative WorkCorrect Misconceptions

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    Integrating Artificial Intelligence with the Project Leadership App
    Project Leadership is a web-based application which empowers the STEM participants to take up leadership roles to develop diverse leadership skills. Implementing Project Leadership (PL) provides...

    Keywords: Artificial Intelligenceleadershipteam workproject leadership

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    2014-Andre_De Ross-Modeling Population Dynamics
    This course is intended as an introduction to the formulation, analysis and application of mathematical models that describe the dynamics of biological populations.

    Keywords: predator-preycompetitionpopulationgrowthbifrucationtext

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    2018-Mohammed_Kaabar-A_Friendly_Introduction_to_Differential_Equations
    In this book, there are five chapters: Laplace Transform, Systems of Homogeneous Linear Differential Equations, Methods of First and Higher Orders DEs, Extended Methods of First and Higher Orders...

    Keywords: textbookordinary differential equations

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    1-095-RatingChessPlayers-ModelingScenarios
    The goal of this activity is to have students build a mathematical model involving a system of first order difference equations from a verbal description of a scenario.

    Keywords: simulationchessElo's methodchess rating

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    1-111-SpreadOfInformation-ModelingScenario
    Students perform experiments to model spread of information within a population. Students collect data, determine essential components and parameters and build a mathematical model culminating with...

    Keywords: datalogisticracismprejudicemisinformationmemesspreaddisinformationinformationliesGoogle Trendscoinspennies

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    3-091-SpringModeling-ModelingScenario
    In this lab students will collect data on their spring mass systems and compare their empirical models to their theoretical ones—giving them an opportunity to actually test a model against data.

    Keywords: datalaboratoryLoggerProVerniermass-spring systemmodel validationempirical modeltheoretical model

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    Conservation and ethics of using synthetic genetics
    This contains teaching material - powerpoints and handouts that can be adapted for lectures and/or discussion groups.
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    GEA Introductory lesson on RNA-Seq
    This RNA-Seq lesson uses the CyVerse VICE Platform and Jupyter notebooks to examine the expression of the leptin gene in samples from a mouse experimental design evaluating diet (high-fat vs....

    Keywords: data sciencebioinformaticsGenome BrowserRNAseqhigh throughput sequencingmRNAAlignmentNCBI Sequence Read Archive

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