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    Biochemistry Take Home Exam - Alternative Assessment
    This take-home exam part has several creative activities that students can choose from to demonstrate their mastery of concepts in my one-semester General Biochemistry survey course. In addition...

    Keywords: BiochemistryInclusive teachingAlternative Assessmenttake home exam

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    Exam Reflective Writing Activities (4 different prompts)
    This is an extended version of Reflective Writing activities to use before 4 different exams.

    Keywords: reflective writing

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    Coronavirus Epidemic Curves - Graphically Interpreting Derivatives
    A set of exam questions or class activity related to 'flatten the curve' during the coronavirus outbreak of 2020. Content includes: notation, first derivative, second derivative, and interpreting...

    Keywords: derivativescalculussecond derivativefirst derivativeInterpreting GraphsCOVID19coronavirus

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    Transitioning Two-Stage Exams to an Online Class
    Students often find biology courses to be very difficult and isolating, particularly if they identify as part of a group that has been historically excluded from STEM. Some of this anxiety and...

    Keywords: lower division STEMupper division STEM

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    Exaggerated Traits and Breeding Success in Widowbirds
    Teaching Notes on the Exaggerated Traits and Breeding Success in Widowbirds

    Keywords: Evolutionexperimental designsexual dimorphismsexual selectionNatural SelectionWidowbirdsbirdintrasexual selectionintersexual selectionhandicap hypothesis

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    Learning Journal Assignment on Biofilms
    This is a learning journal assignment with constructive response questions on Biofilms which undergraduate students can complete with aid of reading a research article and listening to a podcast.

    Keywords: educationPodcastmicrobiologygenomicsUndergraduateAnalysisBioflimsLearning Journal Assignmet

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    Computational Biology using R
    This is an introductory level course on computational biology.

    Keywords: simulationmoduleRcourseprojectsolutions

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    Reflective Writing Prompt
    This activity introduces the research showing a benefit of reflective writing, and then uses a modified version of the prompt from Park et al. to provide practice.

    Keywords: writingreflective writingmath attitudesResources @ BIOMAAP

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    Answer Checking - Teaching Notes
    I used this resource as-is. Included are my teaching notes. / This activity provides students with a set of strategies they can use to check their own answers. Students practice the answer checking...

    Keywords: math attitudesanswer checkingResources @ BIOMAAP

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    Reflective Writing Adapted for Non-Majors
    This activity introduces the research showing a benefit of reflective writing, and then uses a modified version of the prompt from Park et al. to provide practice. The prompts have been modified...

    Keywords: writingreflective writingmath attitudesResources @ BIOMAAP

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    Reflective Writing
    This activity introduces the research showing a benefit of reflective writing, and then uses a modified version of the prompt from Park et al. to provide practice.

    Keywords: writingreflective writingmath attitudesResources @ BIOMAAP

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    Teaching Cancer Biology Through a Lens of Social Justice
    The biology classroom is not separate from the greater context of society; social issues can and should be presented in connection with the content. Here we present an example of antiracist...

    Keywords: assessmentcancersocial justicePOGILAlignmentPublic ExamPublic

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    Failing to Succeed Lightning Talk - YouTube
    Project summary for our Working Group, which sought to develop a toolbox of interventions for students struggling in introductory Biology courses

    Keywords: BIOME 2021

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    Reflective Writing - 2-page handout & Teaching Notes
    This activity introduces the research showing a benefit of reflective writing, and then uses a modified version of the prompt from Park et al. to provide practice. Includes Teaching Notes.

    Keywords: writingreflective writingmath attitudesResources @ BIOMAAP

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    Environmental Justice and Freshwater Resources
    This module enables students to identify the freshwater components of the hydrologic cycle and connect them to the basic need of all human beings for equal access to clean freshwater.

    Keywords: sustainabilityenvironmental scienceglobal changeexamwater resourcesenvironmental sociologyResources @ InTeGrate

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    Understanding the Quantitative and Computational Skills of Incoming Biology Students
    Presentation given as part of a Minisymposium at BEER 2015.

    Keywords: assessmentBioSQuaRE

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    Learning Frameworks Aid Goal-oriented Course Design
    As a new instructor it can be hard to know where to begin. Thankfully, CourseSource's learning frameworks (https://www.coursesource.org/courses) shaped my approach to teaching as a first year...

    Keywords: backward designlearning goalscourse design

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    The Lecture-Free Classroom: Teaching students backward design and Bloom's Taxonomy to create their own learning environment
    We describe Presentation Enhanced Learning (PEL), a flexible, lecture-free, field-tested teaching format to promote problem-based, active learning in upper-division or graduate biological sciences...

    Keywords: active learningbackward designProblem based learningBloom's Taxonomy

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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...

    Keywords: cancerInheritance patternsProbability calculationProto-oncogeneTumor Suppressor Gene

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    Restoring Tropical Forests: Implementing an online module in an undergraduate biology course in Indonesia
    This resource describes my implementation of a module on tropical forest restoration in Costa Rica for an undergraduate Ecology course at Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia....

    Keywords: RestorationEcosystem Servicesforest restorationtransdisciplinary researchsocial forestryhuman well-beingcommunity-based

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