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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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    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...

    Keywords: Disease ecologyurban ecologyUrban food forestsUrban heat islandsGenetic resistance

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    Using Survey123 to Map Physical Habitat Characteristics, Watershed Activities, and Disturbances
    In this lesson, students are introduced to the idea and practice of “remote sensing” and provided with hands-on, field-based experience using standardized stream habitat assessment protocols (the...

    Keywords: GISmappingremote sensingRiver Field Studies Networkriparian habitat assessmentGPSSurvey123National Rivers and Streams Assessment (NRSA)watershed activitieswatershed disturbances

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    Creating ownership through creative writing: Advice columns as term papers in an upper-level Animal Behavior course
    Poster on taking a creative writing approach to traditional term papers. Presented at the 2021 BIOME Institute.

    Keywords: writinganimal behaviorscience writing2021 BIOMEcreative writing

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    Microbiomes forAll: The Research Experiences in Microbiomes Network
    Poster on REMNet presented at the 2020 BIOME Institute: Cultivating Scientific Curiosity

    Keywords: undergraduate researchcourse-based undergraduate research experiencemicrobiomesmicrobiomeCUREREMNet

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    Assessing Urban Biodiversity With the eBird Citizen Science Project: A Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) Module
    The eBird citizen science module takes advantage of technology tools and online resources developed by the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology (http://ebird.org) to achieve several learning...

    Keywords: datacitizen sciencecommunityBiodiversitySpecieshypothesishabitat

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    Environmental Pollution & Public Health (Project EDDIE)
    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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    Gaining familiarity with R and Work with NEON OS & IS data – Plant phenology & temperature - adaptation
    This adaptation introduces students to R and the NEON OS & IS data – Plant Phenology & Temperature tutorial. A planned extension will prompt students to develop a testable hypothesis, based on...

    Keywords: data in the classroomtool:rstudiophenologydata managementNEONtemperature

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    Developing quantitative skills for ecological data: the effects of climate warming on phenological variation and species interactions
    Students combine long-term observational data sets and experimental warming in an alpine meadow in Gothic, CO to test, evaluate, and interpret ecological data focusing on phenological variation and...

    Keywords: species interactionsclimate changequantitative skillsphenologyenvironmental variationphenological mis-match

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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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    Out of Your Seat and on Your Feet! An adaptable course-based research project in plant ecology for advanced students
    University capstone projects can offer science students a rich research experience that illustrates the process of doing scientific research, and can also help students better choose future...

    Keywords: statisticsactive learningecologyinterdisciplinaryplantscommunicating sciencegroup workfield workproces of science

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    Digital Intro: Revitalizing the “Introduction to Psychology” course through Project-based Learning
    Welcome to Digital Intro where we are transforming introductory courses into active, project-based experiences. Our projects expose students to a wide range of digital skills as they learn...

    Keywords: psychologyDigital IntroIntroduction to PsychologyIntroductory PsychologyGeneral Psychology

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    Choose Your Own Adventure: Control a Wildlife Disease Epidemic
    This educational game allows teams of students to try to control a simulated epidemic in United States snake populations using their epidemiological and ecological knowledge. It combines a "choose...

    Keywords: educational game

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    Data Management using National Ecological Observatory Network's (NEON) Small Mammal Data with Accompanying Lesson on Mark Recapture Analysis
    Students use small mammal data from the National Ecological Observatory Network to understand necessary steps of data management from data collection to data analysis by estimating small mammal...

    Keywords: data managementspreadsheetssmall mammals community dynamicsNEONCapture mark-recaptureResource TypeNational Ecological Observatory Network

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    Simple, Accessible River-Based Field Investigation of Riverine Microplastics
    Scientists have discovered that microplastic pollution is ubiquitous in the environment, but the small size of these microscopic pollutants prohibits most people from recognizing their prevalence....

    Keywords: environmental sciencemicroplastic pollutionurban waterswasteenvironmental studiesfield-based learningfreshwater ecologywater qualityRiversSingle-use plasticfreshwater sciencewater ecologyField ExperiencesRiver Ecologyfield workThe Scientific MethodRiver Field Studies Networkfield courses

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    Tying it All Together: An Activity to Help Students Connect Course Experiences to Posted Learning Outcomes
    Instructors of undergraduate courses in Biology and other Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines face an ongoing challenge to foster higher-order thinking and learning...

    Keywords: metacognitionreflectiongoalsOutcomes

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    Developing a community resource to find and share summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) opportunities
    Instructors can use this module to introduce students to searching for and identifying summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) online, with a focus on National Science Foundation (NSF)...

    Keywords: Resources @ NSF - NCCSTSecology labField researchREUresearch experience for undergraduatesfield ecology

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    Shroomology 1010: Introduction to the Fascinating World of Fungi Lesson Plan
    A lecture will be hosted by the educator. The first four sections cover factual information and in the activity students will draw conclusions about spore germination. The last section will...

    Keywords: introductory biologyLecturein-class activitymycologythink-pair-share

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    2008-Abramson-Mathematical modeling of the spread of infectious diseases
    These are informal notes, mostly based on the bibliography listed at the end and on recent papers in the field. The practical use of these models is based on the fact that they can be kept...

    Keywords: infectious diseasebibliographyepidemiccowpoxsmallpoxcomplex networksspread disease

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    2008-Abramson-Mathematical modeling of the spread of infectious diseases
    These are informal notes, mostly based on the bibliography listed at the end and on recent papers in the field. The practical use of these models is based on the fact that they can be kept...

    Keywords: infectious diseaseepidemiccowpoxsmallpoxcomplex networks

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