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    Evaluation of DEIJ practices in learning spaces
    Our Accelerating Systemic Change Network (ASCN) Working Group 5 is a group which focuses on DEIJ - Diversity, Equity, Inclusive and Justice. Taking into account the evolution of learning...

    Keywords: stemassessmentUndergraduatescienceFacultyriosDEIJASCNlearning space

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    Maintenance of Phenotypic Polymorphism and a Scientist Spotlight Featuring Dr. Swanne Gordon
    In this lesson students interpret graphical evidence of frequency-dependent selection in the wood tiger moth, then make long-term evolutionary predictions. They then read and reflect on an...
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    Hewlett Foundation - Bates Final Evaluation Report 2021
    Evaluation findings of Hewlett Foundation award to Bates College

    Keywords: QUBES HubSTEM EvaluationSCORE Network

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    Resource list for inclusive teaching in STEM (HHMI)
    A resource collection created for HHMI BioInteractive to guide the development of teaching resources aligned with principles of equity and inclusion.

    Keywords: education researchbibliographyreferencesdecolonizing

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    UNIDE - The Undergraduate Network for Increasing Diversity of Ecologists (RCN-UBE Introduction)
    We aim to build a sustainable network of ecologists, educators, social scientists, and students who are committed to identifying and remedying cultural and social barriers that reduce human...

    Keywords: RCN-UBE Introduction

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    Modeling Soil Fluxes with NEON Data
    This activity is an exploratory activity to understand rates of change of soil carbon dioxide in different ecosystems using data provided by the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON,...

    Keywords: modelingdata analysisplant/soil/water interactions

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    Natural History Collections as Emerging Resources for Innovative Education
    Natural history collections have the potential to help transform undergraduate science education from passive learning into an active exploration of the natural world.

    Keywords: educationnatural historycollectionsdigital resourcesResources @ QUBES - Teaching & Reference

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    Using Data in Limnology
    Poster on the interdisciplinary study of limnology as a "PEAK" integrative learning experience at Concordia Collegepresented at the 2018 QUBES/BioQUEST Summer Workshop

    Keywords: student researchinterdisciplinary educationlimnologyeco-informaticsSummer Workshop 2018

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    Map Your Hazards! – Assessing Hazards, Vulnerability and Risk
    The Map Your Hazards module provides students an interactive mechanism to engage in place-based exploration of natural hazards, social vulnerability, risk and the factors that shape their...

    Keywords: earth scienceenvironmental scienceglobal changenatural hazardsenvironmental studiesenvironmental sociologyResources @ InTeGrate

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    A Walk Through the Woods
    Data driven curriculum module from Dryad Digital Repository

    Keywords: ecologygraphingResources @ Dryadhypothesis testingdata visualizationbotanyclimate changeadaptationforestryDryadLabhypothesis formulationenvironmental pressureswood structure and function

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    A Beginner's Guide To Sampling Rockpools
    In this guide, we'll teach you how to sample rockpools, collect data, make visuals from data, and interpret data in order to see if any correlations exist.

    Keywords: aquatic macroinvertebratesdata collectionsrockpoolsampling

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    Figure of the Week: Environmental Data Analysis/Statistics Version
    Adaptation of Figure of the Day activity used on a weekly basis in an environmental data analysis/statistics course.

    Keywords: graphsmath attitudesResources @ BIOMAAPInterpreting Graphs

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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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    NEON Data in the Classroom: Implementing and Adapting an Open Education NEON Resource “Quantifying the Drivers and Impacts of Natural Disturbance Events-The 2013 Colorado Floods” for the Southern California Classroom.
    Natural disasters and subsequent ecological disturbance events illustrate the complexity of problems in ecology and environmental science, and can be used as effective teaching tools. Unpacking the...

    Keywords: data in the classroomdata interpretationTemperature ChangeprecipitationPalmer Drought Severity IndexEcological Disturbancedisturbance ecology

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    Trinity Washington University- A Pipeline in Paradise
    Trinity Washington University-Discovering Planet Earth (ENVS 101- An introductory science course designed for non-science majors, study "A Pipeline in Paradise" case. Students were divided to four...

    Keywords: case studypipeline

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    Changes in Lake Ice: Ecosystem Response to Global Change
    This is an FMN participant modification of the TIEE module "Changes in Lake Ice: Ecosystem Responses to Global Change," authored by Robert Bohanan, Marianne Krasny, and Adam Welman in 2005.

    Keywords: ecologyfmnData Discovery

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    Evaluating the Quick Fix: Weight Loss Drugs and Cellular Respiration
    One key to student success in introductory and cell biology courses is a foundational knowledge of cellular respiration. This is a content area in which students often harbor misconceptions that...

    Keywords: data analysisCellular RespirationElectron Transport ChainEnergy transformationsMitochondriaOxidative phosphorylationWeight loss drugs24-dinitrophenol (DNP)

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    Evaluation of DEIJ in Lectures of Junior Year Science Undergraduate Course
    Diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice, DEIJ, is important for both students and faculty as they improve learning outcomes and elicit professional competency respectively. DEIJ...

    Keywords: stempedagogyArticleUndergraduateOpen Sourcescienceevaluationneurobiologythe role of active learning in retention and engagementFacultyAnalysismethod#DEI-J-ADEIJinterdisplinaryjunorlearning spacesadditional support learning systemenhancement

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    Open Practices Learning Community Curriculum
    This is a learning community curriculum designed to engage participants in discussions, short readings and mini-exercises to explore basic tools for Open Educational Practices (OEP)

    Keywords: s-jediopen licensing

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    Human population growth case study
    A case study on human population growth that includes Human-Environment Interactions (HEI) from the Ecological Society of America's 4 dimensional ecology teaching framework. Meant to be used in...

    Keywords: exponential growthlogistic growthhuman-environmental interactions

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