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    OCELOTS - A Network for Facilitating Online Content for Experiential Learning of Tropical Systems (RCN-UBE Introduction)
    The OCELOTS Network connects tropical biology researchers with specialists in pedagogy, 4DEE, software, and media to create and implement research-based online modules in tropical biology,...

    Keywords: RCN-UBE Introduction

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    Science of Sorting
    Children possess an innate curiosity about the natural world. This Discovery Trunk explores the topic of sorting, or classification, in the study of life science.

    Keywords: species interactionsphylogenyscience educationPropertytaxonomyindividual traitsLife ScienceSortOrganizationReproductionclassifycharacteriesticlivingnonlivingobjectsadvantagedichotomous keyliving systemsoffspringphysical traitbehavioral traitcladecladogramtaxonomistnatural worldkingdomsbinomial nominclatureone class periodgradesK-8K-8

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    Evaluation of NSF RCN-UBE SCORE Summit
    Data summary for evaluation findings of the NSF RCN-UBE: Sustainability Challenges for Open Resources to promote an Equitable Undergraduate Biology Education (SCORE) summit held at Bates College,...

    Keywords: evaluationSTEM Evaluation

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    EDSIN Conference Flier
    This is the official conference flier. Feel free to distribute via your networks.

    Keywords: environmental scienceconference flierEDSINNSF INCLUDES

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    Promoting Academic Success of Economically Disadvantaged, STEM-Interested, First- and Second-Year Undergraduate Students via the ACCESS in STEM Program at University of Washington Tacoma
    At the University of Washington Tacoma (UWT), a public, predominantly undergraduate, minority-serving institution (Asian-American, Native American, Pacific Islander, AANAPISI), the Achieving Change...

    Keywords: course based undergraduate research experiencesNSF S-STEMStudent mentoring

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    Strategies for developing a science communicator through authentic science writing assignments
    To prepare biology undergraduates to be able to read and evaluate the primary literature, it is beneficial to teach students how to write documents in the style of professional science style...

    Keywords: communicationPeer reviewscience writing

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    Finch Evolution Collection
    Over the past four decades, biologists Rosemary and Peter Grant have documented the evolution of the famous Galápagos finches

    Keywords: EvolutionResources @ HHMI - BioInteractive

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    Using Jetstream for Bioinformatics
    A pre-class screencast for UCSD’s Foundations of Bioinformatics course (BGGN-213).

    Keywords: videosbioinformaticsgenomicsyoutubescreen castjetstream

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    QB@CC Workshop NABT 2022
    Creating and Implementing Quantitative Biology Lessons with QB@CC, Beneficial for Both Faculty and Students

    Keywords: Exponentscommunity collegesquantitative biologyOERNSF RCN-UBE

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    NSF RCN-UBE SCORE Pre-Data Summary Report
    Evaluation findings of the SCORE Pre-Summit Survey with participant demographics.

    Keywords: evaluationSTEM Evaluation

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    NSF Final Outcomes Report: Using the Lived Experiences and Narratives of Black Heritage and African American Gullah/Geechee to Learn Science Concepts
    This resource is a public report that provides final outcomes from the NSF funded project award # 1928832. The resources included in this report are outcomes from the catalyst project titled:...

    Keywords: biologyEquityenvironmental scienceScience curriculumdiversityinclusion#NGSSBlack representationbelongingusing lived experiences and narrativesBlack heritageGullah/Geechee

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    UNVEIL-ing Framework to Summer Research Experiences
    Undergraduate research opportunities help foster a science identity and increase retention in STEM majors and transition into the STEM workforce. Moreover, these opportunities have stronger results...
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    HITS: A Network to Create Inquiry-based Case Studies | BIOME 2022
    We created the NSF-funded High-throughput Discovery Science & Inquiry-based Case Studies for Today’s Students (HITS) Research Coordination Network to address this gap. HITS brings together...

    Keywords: case studiesHigh-throughput Discovery Science & Inquiry-based Case Studies for Today’s StudentsHigh-throughput (HT) approaches

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    Genome Solver: Building faculty skills in bioinformatics
    Genome Solver (GS) began in 2011 as an NSF-funded project for faculty training in basic web-based bioinformatics skills.

    Keywords: faculty developmentbioinformaticsgenome solver

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    Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Ecology: Introducing the Environmental Data Science Inclusion Network (EDSIN)
    The Environmental Data Science Inclusion Network (EDSIN) was launched in the spring of 2019 following an NSF INCLUDES conference. This poster, summarizing the event, was presented at the 2019...

    Keywords: data scienceEquitydiversityinclusionNational Ecological Observatory NetworkEDSIN#edsin2019

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    DataONE Module 03: Data Management Planning
    Benefits of a data management plan (DMP), DMP components, tools for creating a DMP, NSF DMP information, and a sample DMP.

    Keywords: moduledatain-class activityHandoutproblem setdata managementDataONEPresentation

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    Author Guidelines
    These Author Guidelines are designed to assist module authors throughout this participatory process of creating a new OCELOTS module or adapting an existing one.
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    How do we do Bioinformatics?
    A description of the computational setup for “Foundations of Bioinformatics” (BGGN-213) See: http://thegrantlab.org/bggn213/

    Keywords: bioinformaticsgenomicsyoutubescreen cast

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    What is Bioinformatics?
    This second screencast introduces bioinformatics, details major leaning goals & expectations of BGGN-213 and outlines the areas of bioinformatics covered in ...

    Keywords: videosbioinformaticsgenomicsyoutubescreen castintroductory bioinformatics

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    Foundations of Bioinformatics (BGGN-213)
    This first short screen-cast introduces “Foundations of Bioinformatics” (BGGN-213) course at UCSD and covers some pre-course logistics.

    Keywords: bioinformaticsgenomicsyoutubescreen cast

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