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    Draft Version: Energy Balance Models
    This module introduces the student to the process of mathematical modeling.

    Keywords: modulemathematical modelingbenergy balanceclimate modelDIMACSResources @ DIMACSclimatein-class activityResources @ QUBES - Teaching & Referencescienceexperiment

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    More In Depth Spreadsheet Management Adaptation of Data Management using NEON Small Mammal Data
    This adaptation consists of three exercises that introduce students to 1) format spreadsheet data tables, 2) carry out spreadsheet quality control, and 3) count/sort/filter data of interest in...

    Keywords: data managementspreadsheetsmammalsCapture mark-recapture

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    Understanding Global Climate Change: Present, Past, and Future
    Understanding global climate change through the lenses of the present, past, and future, combining modern technology and indigenous knowledge and ways of knowing.

    Keywords: climate changeglobal changeabiotic environmentindigenous knowledge

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    Environmental Pollution & Public Health (Project EDDIE) used in an introductory Environmental Challenges course
    Environmental health is a field of study within public health that is concerned with human-environment interactions, and specifically, how the environment influences public well-being. In this...

    Keywords: public healthProject EDDIEpollution

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    Mysterious Occurrences Instructors Notes
    Answer Key associated with Mysterious Occurrences Module

    Keywords: digital resourcesBiodiversityconservation sciencePlant Resilience

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    Investigating human impacts on stream ecology: locally and nationally
    TIEE Module- How does nutrient pollution impact stream ecosystems locally and nationally?
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    NetLogo refresher course
    This is a supplemental resource from ABM

    Keywords: moduletextbookNetLogoagent-based modelingIndividual & Agent Based Modelingin-class activityproblem set

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    BSHS Calculus 2
    Based upon the University of Minnesota Bachelor's of Science in Health Science calculus curriculum (part 2), this course introduces linear transformations, ordinary differential equations, basic...

    Keywords: mathematicsmodelingmodulecalculuscourselinear algebracalculus 2Resources @ BioQUEST - Numbers Count

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    2020-Teaching Module-Applying Separation Of Variables
    This is one of several Teaching Modules prepare by the Principal Investigates of SIMIODE’s National Science Foundation grant and offered in 2020. The material offered is a complete narrative of how...

    Keywords: modulesEbolaseparation of variablesTeaching ModulesSeparation

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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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    Human Population Growth and Greenhouse Gas Emissions
    Humans alter the climate by emitting greenhouse gases, by changing planetary albedo, and by altering atmospheric chemistry. Between 1900 and 2000, humans' emissions of carbon into the atmosphere...

    Keywords: demographyhuman populationgreenhouse gas emissions

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    GSD QUBES Resource Draft (1)
    This QUBES module is focused towards AP Environmental studies courses. It includes hypothesis testing, transect sampling, Shannon Diversity Index, and scatter plot and bar graph creation in excel.

    Keywords: Community EcologyField researchspidersMicrosoft ExcelShannon diversity index

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    Assessing the Risk of Invasive Species Using Community Science Data
    This module introduces students who are already familiar with GIS to doing comparative analyses with large-scale community science (often called citizen science) data sets. Students will explore...

    Keywords: Invasive SpeciesProject EDDIECitizen and Community Science

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    Human Dimensions in Amphibian Conservation: Addressing Threats
    This module introduces students to the theme of human dimensions in conservation and provides them with an opportunity to engage in practices related to social science research.

    Keywords: conservationhuman dimensionsamphibianssocial scienceconceptual modelstakeholder analysisopen standardsresearch proposalSPARCnet

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    Fungus Among Us!
    This game introduces the idea of how fungi and plants can work together in a symbiotic relationship.

    Keywords: NIMBiosgraphingplantsfamily timeinformal science learningfungiinformal science educationsimple data plots

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    Module 2: Transcription Part I: From DNA Sequence to Transcription Unit
    This module illustrates how a primary transcript (pre-mRNA) is synthesized using a DNA molecule as the template. Students will learn about the importance of the 5' and 3' regions of the gene for...

    Keywords: data visualizationmolecular biologybioinformaticsGenome BrowsergenomicsTranscription InitiationTranscription Start SiteTranscription Termination Signal

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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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    Louse Genetics, Genomics, and Gene Function...Oh My!
    In this module, students will be investigating a louse gene with an unknown function to determine if it might be important in the evolution of the louse ecomorphs.

    Keywords: parasitesgenomicsgene sequence analysisFunctional Genomics

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    Louse and Human Coevolution
    This module examines the complicated co-evolution of Lice, Humans, and Great Apes

    Keywords: phylogeneticsBiodiversityparasitesCoevolutionhuman evolution

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    An Introduction to Biodiversity Databases and Specimen Images
    In this module, students will be introduced to some biodiversity data resources and how to search for and download herbarium specimen images. They will be asked to think critically about the...

    Keywords: data in the classroombiodiversity informaticsnatural history collection

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