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    The Effect of Climate Change on Butterfly Phenology
    In this module, students explain the importance of collections in scientific research, manipulate data in a spreadsheet program, create properly plotted and labeled graphs, analyze data to test...

    Keywords: ExcelResources @ ESA - TIEEclimate changefmnphenologynatural history collectionsDIGbutterflyinterspecific interactions

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    Introduction to Data Management, Life History, and Demography
    Learning Goals: • explain importance of data management • identify elements of an organized data sheet • create & manipulate data in a spreadsheet • calculate vital statistics using life...

    Keywords: Resources @ ESA - TIEEdemographysurvivorshipdata managementlife tables

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    21st Century STEM Workforce Skills
    This activity includes a leadership assessment and associated exercise to encourage the development of 21st Century STEM Skills.

    Keywords: collaborationteam scienceleadership skills

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    Gelin’: Gel Electrophoresis Simulation
    Students will understand how DNA is separated into a fingerprint by using a chromatography activity to simulate gel electrophoresis.

    Keywords: DNAgel electrophoresisdna fingerprintchromatography

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    Altruism Simulation Activity
    An altruism activity that uses a NetLogo altruism simulation.

    Keywords: Evolutiontool:netlogoanimal behavioraltruism

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    Importing Data into R
    This short swirl lesson on importing data is designed to 1) get a basic understanding in how tables are read into R and some common issues and 2) develop an individual set of instructions for...

    Keywords: teaching with technologySwirl

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    QUBES: An education gateway for professional development, OER sharing, and project support
    Poster about QUBES as an education gateway presented at the 2019 ASCN Transforming Institutions

    Keywords: cyberinfrastructureeducation gateway

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    Diversity Indices: Simpson's D and E
    This module introduces Simpson's diversity index in the context of understanding how to mathematically measure the species diversity in a community. It is intended for an introductory biology...

    Keywords: ecologydiversityFunctionsOpenStaxdiversity index

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    Regulation of Sex Determination
    This activity accompanies the HHMI BioInteractive module Sex Verification of Athletes (​https://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/testing-athletes​). It provides students with exercises to explore the...
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    Doubling Time of Tumors
    This module introduces the calculation of potential doubling time of tumorous cells in the context of understanding the growth of a population of the cells. It is intended for an introductory...

    Keywords: linear regressionRatiosCell StructureOpenStaxCell Growth

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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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    Marriage Model (with errors)
    Marriage age model for use with NetLogo and ABM material

    Keywords: computational modelagent-based modelsocial networksmarriageChapter 6Chapter 6.5

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    T2R38 taste receptor polymorphisms underlie susceptibility to upper respiratory infection
    Article presenting evidence that the bitter taste receptor T2R38 regulates the mucosal innate defense of the human upper airway.
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    Calculating Lifetime Cancer Risk Resulting from DNA Replication
    An expanded case study adapted from an HHMI Data Point on Cell Division and Cancer Risk using Figure 1 from Tomasetti, C. and Vogelstein, B. (2015).

    Keywords: cancerScientific ProcessStatistics and MathScientific Methodologybiology of cellscell growth and divisionHigh School

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    Natural Hazards and Risks: Hurricanes
    Making the difficult decision to evacuate before a hurricane makes landfall can save lives and property. This two week module explores how hurricanes connect the ocean-atmosphere-terrestrial...

    Keywords: sustainabilityearth scienceOceanographyenvironmental scienceglobal changenatural hazardsatmospheric scienceResources @ InTeGrate

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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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    Integrating student research projects into mathematical biology courses
    Part of the 2015 SMB Minisymposium: Topics in Biomathematics Education

    Keywords: Mathematical Biologycourseproject

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    Vegetation Greening: A Snapshot from the Andean Tropics
    This online module explores how satellite images are used to study vegetation greenness and, using Ecuador as an example, demonstrates how tropical vegetation experienced increased greenness...

    Keywords: remote sensingTime Series AnalysisEarth ObservationEarth and Space SciencesgeographyGIMMS NDVIgreening and browningtropical Andes

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    Online Information Literacy: Applying the CRAAP Test to Vaccine (Mis)information
    Teaching scientific literacy skills can help combat the propagation of misinformation online. This lesson is intended to give students practice identifying reliable scientific information on the...

    Keywords: Vaccinesimmunityreliability

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    Instructor Guide : Integrating Leadership Skills, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Simulation and Google Tools to learn Chemistry
    Scientific, leadership and recent artificial intelligence skills are integral frameworks of the curriculum. All of them together or individually can enhance knowledge, critical thinking and...

    Keywords: simulationactive learningstemBiochemistryInterdisciplinary STEMfaculty developmentchemistryArtificial IntelligencereflectionUndergraduate: Seniorleadership skillssinstructor traininggoogle tools

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