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    The Genomics Education Partnership: Democratizing Genomics Research Experiences Nationwide
    This poster provides a general overview of the Genomics Education Partnership (GEP), and information on our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion efforts are outlined in the accompanying video.

    Keywords: course-based undergraduate research experienceBioinformatics and Genomicsgenomics teaching and CUREsdiversity equity and inclusion

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    The Mathematics of Voting Systems: Plurality, Runoff and Ranked Choice
    In this five-day interdisciplinary math and social studies unit, students use math to create informed opinions about the three most common voting systems in the United States: plurality, runoff and...

    Keywords: mathematicsInterdisciplinary STEMInterdisciplinary Mathematics Educationinterdisciplinary math educationvoting

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    Perspectives and practices in sharing data-centric adaptations in the biology classroom: How, why, when, and where are instructors sharing these high-impact pedagogies?
    Poster presented at the 2019 meeting of the National Association of Biology Teachers on barriers to fully utilizing the complete Open Education Resources lifecycle

    Keywords: data-centric teachingoer life cycle

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    Research and Teaching Opportunities with a Large-scale Salamander Collaboration Network (SPARCnet): TWS Poster
    Poster presented at the 2020 virtual meeting of The Wildlife Society (TWS) on research and teaching opportunities with the Salamander Population and Adaptation Research Collaboration Network...

    Keywords: salamandercourse-based research experiences (CUREs)research network

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    Augmented Reality Metabolic Pathways (ARMET)
    The ARMET app is developed using Unity, 3D molecules obtained from Protein Data Bank and ChemSpider-chemical structure database, the usage data are stored into a database (MySQL) and are analyzed...

    Keywords: BiochemistryAugmented RealityMetabolic Pathways

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    Sequence Similarity: An inquiry based and "under the hood" approach for incorporating molecular sequence alignment in introductory undergraduate biology courses
    Introductory bioinformatics exercises often walk students through the use of computational tools, but often provide little understanding of what a computational tool does "under the...

    Keywords: BLASTmultiple sequence alignmentsequence similarityphylogramZika virusAlgorithmScoring Matrix

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    Hands-On, Hands-Off: The Community College Genomics (ComGen) Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience
    Science is a process of discovery where failure is inherent and iteration is necessary, yet instructors often teach the scientific process as if it is a controlled, highly supervised, confirmatory...

    Keywords: geneticssequencingDNAbacterium

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    Dynamic Daphnia: An inquiry-based research experience in ecology that teaches the scientific process to first-year biologists
    This authentic research experience lesson teaches the core concept of systems and the competencies of quantitative reasoning, communication, and the ability to apply science. The research is...

    Keywords: statisticsecologyscientific methodexperimental designAbiotic and Biotic FactorsDependent and Independent Variables

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    Mysterious Occurrences Instructors Notes
    Answer Key associated with Mysterious Occurrences Module

    Keywords: digital resourcesBiodiversityconservation sciencePlant Resilience

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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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    Restoring tropical forests: Is planting clusters of trees a cost-effective and ecologically-sound strategy to restore tropical forest?
    This module (available in four languages) provides a broad introduction to both ecological and social aspects of tropical forest restoration. It focuses on a long-term study comparing three...

    Keywords: Restoration Ecologyforest restorationtropical forest

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    The Tentative Nature of Science
    This part focuses on the tentative nature of science

    Keywords: scienceCOVID19Tentative Nature

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    2017-Craig_Tracy-Lectures on Differential Equations
    These notes are for a one-quarter course in differential equations. The approach is to tie the study of differential equations to specific applications in physics with an emphasis on oscillatory...

    Keywords: physicsoscillation

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    A Potential Novel Ecosystem Service: Seagrass Meadows Reduce Disease in Nearby Corals
    In this lesson, students will receive an introduction to Poisson Generalized Linear Mixed Models in R utilizing data on coral diseases. In their code, students will assess if seagrass status has an...

    Keywords: environmental scienceseagrassecosystemcoral reefsEcosystem Services

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    Data is the New Science - Modified and combined with Following the Data Module
    In this module, students will be introduced to some emerging biodiversity data resources. They will be asked to think critically about the strengths and utility of these data resources and apply...

    Keywords: data in the classroombiodiversity informaticsnatural history collection

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    Ontology for UDL and Related Content
    This is a description of tagging ontology that can be used for UDL resources
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    Faculty Mentoring Networks: Community Professional Development for the Digital Age
    Poster for BioQUEST Summer Workshop 2019 What is an FMN? What is it like to be in one? What are the benefits?

    Keywords: fmn

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    How the Scientific Method Works
    An episode dedicated to learning about how we explore our world using the scientific method.

    Keywords: scientific methodstuff you should knowResources @ QUBES - Teaching & Referencescienceepisodeexplore

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    A Pipeline in Paradise, Part 1: Learning the Relevant Science
    This case requires students to integrate information across the following five “knowledge domains” to develop a baseline understanding of the problem.

    Keywords: case studysocio-environmental data

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    Mock Drug Activity Enhances Student Learning About the Challenges of HIV/AIDS Therapy
    While traditional didactic coursework is important for learning about the scientific aspects of HIV/AIDS, it is difficult to convey social aspects of the epidemic. Due to effective drug therapies,...

    Keywords: drug resistanceRetrovirusViral replication

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