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    Quantitative Reasoning Learning Progression
    Three articles about the work of a project on quantitative reasoning in the context of environmental literacy.

    Keywords: quantitative

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    2011-Gaff-Lenhart-Use of optimal control models to predict treatment time for managing tick-borne disease
    Tick-borne diseases have been on the rise recently, and correspondingly, there is an increased interest in implementing control measures to decrease the risk. Optimal control provides an ideal tool...

    Keywords: diseaseoptimal controlTICKtick modeehrlichiosisbang bang control

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    Spreading seeds: How can a better understanding of seed dispersal improve tropical forest restoration?
    Learn about seed dispersal by animals and how this ecological process can be harnessed to facilitate forest recovery through a forest restoration experiment in Costa Rica. Apply what you learn to a...

    Keywords: conservationRestorationtropical forestsbiodiversity lossSeed dispersal

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    Agents of change: Determining effects of pollution on marine environments through data interpretation
    In this lesson, students discuss the effects of disturbance in marine environments with a focus on pollution. They also evaluate the anthropogenic causes and consequences of pollution on a variety...

    Keywords: fishgraph interpretationfmnmarine ecosystemsmarine ecologymicroplastic pollutionEcological Disturbanceintermediate disturbance hypothesisstudent STEM identitypollutionBioGraphIrepresentation in STEMoil spill

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    MathBench: Biodiversity Assessment of Stream Biota
    The MathBench module, "The Case of the Missing Mountaintop" introduces students to the concept of biodiversity and measures used to quantify biodiversity and stream health. Students investigate the...

    Keywords: ecology labCommunity Ecologyenvironmental scienceconservation ecologyStream ecology

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    Priority Setting in Public Health: A lesson in ethics and hard choices
    Undergraduate life sciences majors, many of whom aspire to work in healthcare and health research, can benefit from early exposure to ethical issues that they may encounter in these careers. This...

    Keywords: public health ethicsramifications of one's decisionsrole of science in society

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    What is a species? Using DNA barcodes to identify species and determine insect responses to global warming
    Combining ecology, molecular tools and physiology, students investigate insect adaptation to temperatures along tropical mountains. Students integrate species concepts, DNA barcoding and thermal...

    Keywords: global warmingbeetleBiological species conceptCephaloleiacrticial thermal maximumcryptic specieselevational gradientsthermal limitstropical insectsZingiberales

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    2009-Noakes-Sleigh-Mathematical models for assessing the role of airflow on the risk of airborne infection in hospital wards
    Understanding the risk of airborne transmission can provide important information for designing safe healthcare environments with an appropriate level of environmental control for mitigating risks.

    Keywords: infectioncompartmenthospitalventilationairbornesthochasticWells–Riley

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    Exploring Microbial Diversity: An Interactive In-Class Assignment for Biology and Microbiology Courses
    This interactive assignment engages students in a hands-on exploration of microbial diversity and the importance of microbes in ecosystems. Designed for General Biology II and Introduction to...

    Keywords: Microbiology EducationMicrobial DiversitymicrobiologyEcological Society of Americaecology educationresearch-based classroom instruction4DEE Framework

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    Vegetation Greening: A Snapshot from the Andean Tropics
    This online module explores how satellite images are used to study vegetation greenness and, using Ecuador as an example, demonstrates how tropical vegetation experienced increased greenness...

    Keywords: remote sensingTime Series AnalysisEarth ObservationEarth and Space SciencesgeographyGIMMS NDVIgreening and browningtropical Andes

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    Measuring streamflow using the float method
    Streamflow, the amount of water flowing in a creek, stream, or river at a certain point in time, is critical to people and the environment. Knowing the amount of flowing water is important for...

    Keywords: River Field Studies Networkstreamflowstreamflow measurements

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    Causes and consequences of resisting herbivory: How long-lived plants avoid damage from diverse short-lived insect herbivores
    This module guides students through decades-long studies of tropical plant-insect interactions to elucidate the ecology and evolution of plant defenses while encouraging students to consider the...
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    Using Constructed Response Questions on High-Stakes Assessments in Large Classes With Limited Support
    Large lecture courses often rely heavily, and sometimes exclusively, on Multiple Choice (MC) exams to assess student learning. Constructed Response (CR) questions, in which students generate their...

    Keywords: assessmenttestexamLarge classconstructed responseshort answerscoring

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    Healing the scars: Tropical rainforest carbon cycling. Does it matter which tree species you plant?
    This online module explores how differences in traits of tropical tree species translate into differential effects on the carbon cycle, integrating ecological information across scales and the...

    Keywords: climate changecarbon cyclingtropical biology4DEE Frameworkforest restorationtropical tree speciessoil carbon

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    Assessment of Science Inquiry
    Resource from the 2015 BioQUEST Summer Workshop

    Keywords: assessmentconceptsSoTL

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    Implementing an online module about plant functional traits in the context of restoration ecology for an undergraduate class in Brazil.
    This resource describes my experience in implementing this OCELOTS module in a Functional Trait-based Restoration class for undergraduate majors in the Forest Sciences Department / Escola Superior...

    Keywords: tropical forestsbiodiversity structureAtlantic forestfunctional traitshybrid ecosystems

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    A Customizable Inquiry-Based Statistics Teaching Application for Introductory Biology Students
    Building strong quantitative skills prepares undergraduate biology students for successful careers in science and medicine. While math and statistics anxiety can negatively impact student learning...

    Keywords: introductory biologyQuantitative reasoningInclusive teachingauthentic inquiryInferential statisticsInstructional scaffolding

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    Calculating Lifetime Cancer Risk Resulting from DNA Replication
    An expanded case study adapted from an HHMI Data Point on Cell Division and Cancer Risk using Figure 1 from Tomasetti, C. and Vogelstein, B. (2015).

    Keywords: cancerScientific ProcessStatistics and MathScientific Methodologybiology of cellscell growth and divisionHigh School

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    Staying Alive: Extinction Risk: Introduction to Extinction and Extinction Bias
    Data driven curriculum module from Dryad Digital Repository

    Keywords: ecologydata analysisconservationgraphingResources @ Dryadextinctionmacroevolution

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    Ecology of Infectious Disease: Data Mining the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS) for Ecological Patterns
    How to use publicly available infection case data to teach ecology and evolution of human infectious diseases.

    Keywords: Evolutionecologyinfectious diseasehumansjigsawsmall group workEvolutionary medicinedata explorationCDCNNDSS

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