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    Modeling Global Temperature Change in the 21st Century
    This is an FMN participant modification of the TIEE module "Global Temperature Change in the 21st Century," authored by Daniel R. Taub and Gillian S. Graham in 2011.

    Keywords: ecologyLabEcological Society of AmericafmnLectureUndergraduateData DiscoveryInstructional SettingAudience LevelAdvancedActivity LengthMore than 1 hour

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    Exploring the population dynamics of wintering bald eagles through a population model
    This is an FMN participant modification of the TIEE module "Exploring the population dynamics of wintering bald eagles through long-term data" authored by Julie Beckstead, Alexandra N....

    Keywords: ecologyLabEcological Society of AmericafmnLectureUndergraduateData DiscoveryInstructional SettingAudience LevelAdvancedActivity LengthMore than 1 hour

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    Lichen Niches and Distributions Lab Activity
    This is a 2-part lab activity based on the EREN-NEON Flexible Learning Project: Lichens in Diverse Landscapes. Students conduct field surveys of lichen abundance near their homes and explore...

    Keywords: linear regressionGISNEONair qualityNational Ecological Observatory NetworkLichenfield based methodsEREN lichenairpollution

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    Yeast Cell Growth
    Numbers Count resource using Excel for data analysis

    Keywords: data analysisExcelNumbers Count

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    Movement: Nature's Flying Machines
    In this lab, you will explore the physics of flight, the adaptations that make powered flight possible, and the evolution of powered flight in vertebrates and invertebrates.

    Keywords: citizen sciencequantitative skillsDigital RepositoryFlight

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    Adapted Value of Mistakes
    This module is adapted from BIOMAAP materials on the value of mistakes and application of growth mindset in a microbiology lab.

    Keywords: growth mindsetmath attitudesResources @ BIOMAAPmistakesvalue of mistakes

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    Working with spreadsheet-style data in Python with pandas and seaborn
    This 4-hour participatory live-coding workshop takes learners through the basics of programming in Python via the Jupyter Lab interface and culminates with exploration and visualization of...

    Keywords: datapythonopenSpreadsheetbicylepandasseabornmatplotlib

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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.

    Keywords: ecologyecosystemsfood chainalgae

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    Terrestrial Trophic Cascades & Population Structure
    In this activity, students will use data from natural parks to examine trophic cascades.

    Keywords: case studyBiodiversityplantsResource Typetrophic cascadesnational parks

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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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    Food Chain Dynamics In A Simple Ecosystem
    In this lab, students will construct simple experiments with algae and brine shrimp to learn about food chains and population dynamics.

    Keywords: ecologyecosystemsfood chainalgaebrine shrimp

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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.

    Keywords: ecologyecosystemsfood chain

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    Eiffel Tower Photo and Website
    These are photos from my trip to Paris and a link to the official Eiffel Tower website. This is a test publication.

    Keywords: Audience level - Introductory UG - majors

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    Constructing Phylogenies using Herbarium Specimens
    This lab is intended as an introduction to a plant systematics course. Students work in groups of two to apply what they have learned about plant structures to develop a character matrix based on a...

    Keywords: botanyphylogenyherbariumdistance learningPlant systematicscharacter matrix

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    MS Excel Refresher - Lizards, iguanas, and snakes! Oh my! | Data Nuggets
    This resource, a MS Excel refresher, extends the level for this Data Nugget. Students are given an Excel workbook with the data and asked to graph and calculate diversity using Excel functions...

    Keywords: Resources @ Data NuggetsspreadsheetsRestoration EcologyUsing Excelgraphing in Excelformulas in ExcelApplied ecology

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    Backyard Beetles + Pollinators for a non-lab course on biodiversity conservation
    Backyard Beetles + Pollinators is a project to observe and evaluate plant-pollinator networks. This adaptation modifies the (adapted) modules for a non-lab course on conservation, conducted during...

    Keywords: NEONNational Ecological Observatory Network

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    Adaptation of Plants in the Human-Altered Environment (PHAE) for a non-lab course on biodiversity conservation
    PHAE is a project to compare effects of landscape alteration intensities on plant biomass and diversity. This adaptation modifies the (adapted) modules for a non-lab course on conservation,...

    Keywords: erenNEONdiversitybiomass4DEE Frameworkecosystemsocioeconomic effects

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    Biodiversity, Big Data, and the Fossil Record
    In this lab, we will be making and testing hypotheses about how the biodiversity of groups of organisms may vary through time.

    Keywords: digital resourcesnatural history museumspaleobiology

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    An Adaptation of "Lichens in Diverse Landscapes" for BIO 3400 Ecology at Greensboro College
    This resource includes a lichen data analysis lab that I adapted for students in BIO 3400 Ecology, an upper level in person course at Greensboro College that met during the Fall 2020 semester.

    Keywords: NEONNational Ecological Observatory Network

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    Comparing Primary and Secondary Forest in a Preserve in Plano Texas: A Forest Ecology Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) for Non-Majors and Lower-Level Majors
    An activity that can be conducted as an online or field exercise in which students develop and test their hypotheses about how forest stand characteristics differ between two forest types.

    Keywords: forest ecologyecologycourse-based undergraduate research experienceUsing Excel

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