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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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    Restoring tropical forests: Implementing an online module about restoration and succession in an advanced undergraduate ecology course
    “Restoring tropical forests” was implemented, using restoration as an example of variation in successional pathways, in an undergraduate course at Arizona State University. New versions of the...

    Keywords: resourcesimplementationRestorationtropical forestssuccession

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    Molecular CaseNet - Developing and Using Molecular Case Studies at the Interface of Biology and Chemistry (RCN-UBE Introduction)
    A community of educators and scholars developing and using Molecular Case Studies (MCS), to explore the molecular basis of biological phenomena, understand real world problems, and their developing...

    Keywords: RCN-UBE Introduction

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    TuNE-BIO - Transforming Assessment, Feedback, and Grading in Undergraduate Biology Education (RCN-Introduction)
    The aim of TUnE-BIO is to transform assessment, feedback, and grading practices in undergraduate biology classrooms to combat “weed-out” culture and decrease inequities. Our incubator year focused...

    Keywords: RCN-UBE Introduction

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    CBEC - Cell Biology Education Consortium (RCN-UBE Introduction)
    The CBEC helps faculty at PUIs move cancer cell culture research into the classroom. The mechanism that provides faculty with the resources they need to do this are modular protocols called Cell...

    Keywords: RCN-UBE Introduction

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    1999-Kowalczyk-Hausknecht-Using DEs To Model Real World Data
    With the increasing availability of easy to use interactive differential equation software, we convinced ourselves to completely redesign the way we teach differential equations.

    Keywords: circuitTorricelli's LawHooke's LawRC circuitharmonic oscillatorglucoseglucose tolerance test

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    2013-Brian_Winkel-Reflecting_On_Walls
    We reflect on our passion for teaching mathematics, useful mathematics, by considering our understandings of just what a wall is and what a wall means to us.

    Keywords: mathematicsmathematical modellearningcell wall

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    Sleep and Learning Lab
    Students use sleep and exam data from Introductory Biology students to investigate the question: Does a circadian rhythm, the sleep-wake cycle, influence an important mammalian adaptation, the...

    Keywords: animal behaviorlab activitycircadian biologysmall group workthink-pair-shares

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    Large Datasets in R - Plant Phenology & Temperature Data from NEON
    This module series covers how to import, manipulate, format and plot time series data stored in .csv format in R. Originally designed to teach researchers to use NEON plant phenology and air...

    Keywords: data in the classroomtool:rstudiophenologydata managementNEONtemperature

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    Winter is Coming! Can you handle the freeze?
    This publication contains the adaptations I made to the Data Nuggets module in order to use it with an online, introductory, non-majors botany class. I used this with a unit on natural and...
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    Gene Expression in Stem Cells
    The module served as in introduction to the Gene Expression unit. It was implemented in two phases, a pre-class activity and an in-class activity to introduce chapter concepts and reinforce...

    Keywords: small group activitypre-class activityGeneral Biology

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    Disease Spread Simulation with M&M's and Information on the wider SIMIODE community
    This is a Student Version of a Modeling Scenario from the community, SIMIODE - Systemic Initiative for Modeling Investigations and Opportunities with Differential Equations at www.simiode.org

    Keywords: resourcesdifferential equationsmodelingsimulationmoduledataepidemicsdiseasecommunityapplied mathematicsResources @ SIMIODEretinal surgeryinsect colonyLSDm&mparameter estimationin-class activityproject

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    Teaching Exponential and Logistic Growth in a Variety of Classroom and Laboratory Settings
    Experiment included in Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology (TIEE) Volume 9

    Keywords: Resources @ ESA - TIEEpopulation growth

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    Make It Stick: Teaching Gene Targeting with Ribbons and Fasteners
    Manipulating gene expression is a commonly used tool to study the effect of a single gene or the hierarchy of gene networks in many different biological disciplines. When working with mice, the...

    Keywords: mathematical modelhomologous recombinationCre/loxgene targeting

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    2012-Brian_Ingalls-Mathematical Modelling in Systems Biology An Introduction
    This is a comprehensive text with much biology background to motivate the mathematical modeling, exercises and answers, and many rich examples.

    Keywords: spatialsensitivity analysisgene regulatory networksstochasticbifurcationmetabolic networkselectrophysiologytransductionrate lawsbiochemical reactions

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    Integrating Manipulatives and Animations to Visualize Holliday Junctions
    The complex molecular architecture of Holliday junctions is often challenging for undergraduate biochemistry students to conceptualize. In particular, they have difficulty translating from...

    Keywords: dna structureDNA damageDNA recombinationGene crossoverHolliday junction

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    Drawing flowcharts of lab protocols helps students prepare for biology labs
    With the publishing of the Vision and Change report, we know it is best practice to include authentic research experiences in our undergraduate science lab classes. One big challenge in teaching...

    Keywords: laboratorymolecular biologyUndergraduateprotocolflowchart

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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...

    Keywords: carbon cyclePlant systematicsCaatingaTropical trees

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    The Edge Effect
    This module has students venturing outdoors to take a 50m transect and collect abundance data on plants utilizing quadrats in both edge and interior environment. Mathematically the goals of this...

    Keywords: statisticsecologydata analysisExcelintroductory biologygraphingp-valuest-testsQuantitative reasoninghypothesis testingsample sizestatistical testsinterdisciplinarystatistical analysisCommunity Ecologyspecies diversityvariationdiversity indexvinterpret dataNIQBShannon diversity indexC3. Statistical AnalysisC6. Quantitative Languageedge effect

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    2012-Vivek_Patel-Chemical Kinetics
    The book is designed to help the reader, particularly students, researchers, research scholars, scientists, chemists and industry fraternity of chemistry and allied fields; understand the mechanics...

    Keywords: kineticschemistryreaction

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