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    Module 1: Discovering Your Family's “Botanical History.”
    We all know that understanding family history is important to understanding our place in the world. To help students learn to appreciate plants, this activity will connect family memories to...
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    Module 2: Opening Your Eyes to the Diversity of Plants
    This activity picks up from Module 1 where students chose the plant they wanted to represent their botanical history. In that module, they each identified their plant’s family and were given its...
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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...
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    Introduction to Plant Phenology with Museum Specimens of Desert Prickly Pear (Opuntia phaeacantha)
    Students engage in hands-on exploration of phenology by working with digitized herbarium specimens, particularly focusing on prickly pear specimens from the UTEP herbarium. They learn to identify...
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    The Power of Place: A Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience Studying Urban Ecology, Local Apple Trees and Disease Susceptibility
    Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs) offered early in an undergraduate student’s career have the potential to include a greater number and diversity of students than...
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    Healing the scars: A tropical rainforest carbon cycling module implemented in a Systematic Botany course focused on the Brazilian Caatinga flora
    This resource describes my experience in implementing this OCELOTS module on tropical rainforest carbon cycling in a Systematic Botany course for undergraduate majors in Biology at Pernambuco...
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    Building an Inclusive Botany - Structuring in Class Discussions
    Driven by the national conversation on systemic racism, ongoing inequities, appeals to decolonize science, and the many recent calls for diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion, we use...
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    Green Design: How do Leaf Structures Optimize Photosynthesis and Promote Survival?
    One of the major learning objectives established by the American Society of Plant Biologists and the Botanical Society of America has students answer the question: How do plant structures enable...
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    Why do Some People Inherit a Predisposition to Cancer? A small group activity on cancer genetics
    Before undergraduate students take a genetics course they generally know cancer has a genetic basis and involves the proliferation of cells; however, many are uncertain about why only a subset of...
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    The Case of the Missing Strawberries: RFLP analysis
    While solving the fictional mystery of the missing strawberries, students are engaged in a guided-inquiry lesson featuring small-group and class discussions, hands-on activities, and laboratory...
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    An Adaptation of "Plants in the Human-Altered Environment (PHAE)" for 100% Remote Learning at East Stroudsburg University
    PHAE is a project to compare effects of landscape alteration intensities on plant diversity. This adaptation modified and extends the modules to suit fully remote learning (data collected...
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    Pivoting Intro from Inquiry to Online
    This poster will present how inquiry-based learning experiences that were designed for face-to-face labs can be modified in a rapid pivot to online teaching.
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    Evolution of Caffeine Biosynthesis Enzymes
    This case focuses on exploring why plants make secondary metabolites like caffeine and how the enzymes required for making caffeine evolved.
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    Transpiration- Adapted for online
    In this adaptation, the lab is completed remotely.
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    Arctos Tutorial - BLUE Resource
    A user guide and video instructions for Arctos
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    Faculty Mentoring Networks for Botany Faculty Professional Development
    Poster presented at the 2019 Botanical Society of America conference.
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    PLANT Talking Points: Popcorn, endosperm and the foods we eat...
    This resource connects botany to everyday life by way of explaining what common foods we eat really are.

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    PLANT Talking Points: Crime Scene Botanicals - Forensic Botany...
    Provides information on the interesting job of Forensic Botany using real life examples

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    PLANT Talking Points: Economic Botany - how we value plants...
    This resource gives insight into the interactions between humans and the environment.
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    Transpiration
    In this lab, students will examine differences between C3 and C4 plants in their transpiration rates.
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