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    What Shapes a River: Field Lesson
    This lesson introduces students to field methods and theoretical concepts regarding the factors that shape river environments and ecosystems. Introductory material is followed by instruction in...

    Keywords: substrateRiver Field Studies Network Fluvial GeomorphologyWolman Pebble CountBankful FlowSediment Transport.

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    Seed Dispersal, Mutualisms, and Communities
    In this activity, students use data from published studies to understand patterns of seed dispersal and apply these ideas to understanding the evolution of mutualisms, and how mutualistic...

    Keywords: mutualismsecologyResources @ HHMI - BioInteractivecommunityplantsdiversityScientific Processlarge lecture

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    Data is the New Science - Modified and combined with Following the Data Module
    In this module, students will be introduced to some emerging biodiversity data resources. They will be asked to think critically about the strengths and utility of these data resources and apply...

    Keywords: data in the classroombiodiversity informaticsnatural history collection

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    Exploring Data with BISON
    A module to explore aggregated observation and collection information, through BISON, or Biodiversity Information Serving Our Nation (https://bison.usgs.gov), a tool for visualizing GBIF data.

    Keywords: Querying databasesdata in the classroombiodiversity informaticsnatural history collectionsGBIFBISON

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    BIO 439/539: Big Data Analysis
    Course materials for BIO 439/539: Big Data Analysis

    Keywords: Rdata analysisbig datadata managementstatistical methods

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    Processes that Regulate Patterns of Species and Genetic Diversity
    This activity was developed for an undergraduate upper level ecology course for Environmental or Biological Science majors. Classes of ~20 students work best for the activity.
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    Making toast: Using analogies to explore concepts in bioinformatics
    Module using analogies to introduce students to genomics

    Keywords: bioinformaticsgenomicsworkflowNIBLSECourseSourceanalogiesbioinformatics workflows

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    Investigating Biomes with BiomeViewer
    This interactive classroom activity facilitates student learning about biodiversity through an investigation of biomes (what they are, how they're defined, their global distribution) using a free...

    Keywords: BiodiversityEcosystem EcologyBiomeViewerbiomes

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    2014-Jeffrey_Chasnov-Lecture_Notes_on_Introduction_to_Differential_Equations
    The differential equations text is 128 pages and develops and motivates the theory of the material nicely, with links to YouTube lectures to assist.

    Keywords: differential equationsbiologytextbook

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    Making “sense” out of surface area to volume relationships
    Using a multimodal approach, the non-linear aspect of the surface area to volume relationship is explored. Students use their their senses of taste and sight to determine how smaller cells and...

    Keywords: active learningintroductory biologycell biologyquantitative skillskinesthetic learningLDC2023

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    Teaching Data Viz and Communication as an Undergraduate Biology Course: Syllabus and Resources
    Teaching materials co-developed for a new upper-level undergraduate biology course to teach data exploration and communication without requiring previous coding experience.

    Keywords: data visualizationR programming languagedata literacycalling bulldata viztidy data

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    Teaching Data Viz and Communication as an Undergraduate Biology Course: Assignments and Projects
    Teaching materials co-developed for a new upper-level undergraduate biology course to teach data exploration and communication without requiring previous coding experience.

    Keywords: data visualizationR programming languagedata literacycalling bulldata viztidy dataOur World in DataDear Data

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    More In Depth Spreadsheet Management Adaptation of Data Management using NEON Small Mammal Data
    This adaptation consists of three exercises that introduce students to 1) format spreadsheet data tables, 2) carry out spreadsheet quality control, and 3) count/sort/filter data of interest in...

    Keywords: data managementspreadsheetsmammalsCapture mark-recapture

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    Data Cards Sample Created From Lost Crops of Africa (NRC, 1996, 2006, 2008)
    This resource provides a sample of the data cards that have been used in conference presentations, trainings, and science methods courses over the years. This resource provides supplemental data...

    Keywords: environmental scienceCurriculum developmentScience curriculumAfricacultural resourcescultural heritageancient fruitsancient vegetablesdiversity equity and inclusionBlackNext Generation Science StandardsBlack representation in STEMgrain sizescience capitalcrops

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    Assessing the Risk of Invasive Species Using Community Science Data
    This module introduces students who are already familiar with GIS to doing comparative analyses with large-scale community science (often called citizen science) data sets. Students will explore...

    Keywords: Invasive SpeciesProject EDDIECitizen and Community Science

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    Biodiversity Conservation in Agriculture
    Biodiversity is decreasing rapidly each year and agriculture is a large contributor. In order to minimize biodiversity loss, we must study how local and landscape management in agriculture impact...

    Keywords: conservationagricultureBiodiversitybiodiversity conservationagricultural conservation

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    Water We Doing: A Deep Dive Into Sustainable Ocean Management & Blue Economies
    This lesson explores the concept of blue economies and includes a detailing lesson in R that involves basic statistics and building complex graphics.

    Keywords: linear regressionRStudioblue economy

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    Ungrading to Decentered Grading Lightning Talk 2021 - YouTube
    BIOME 2021 Ungrading Working Group Lightning Talk

    Keywords: assessment practices

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    Teaching Population Dynamics with Data and HHMI BioInteractive
    Presented at NABT 2019, we demonstrate how the Population Dynamics Click & Learn resource can be customized for any organism - using the Lionfish invasion as an example

    Keywords: population growthHHMI BioInteractive

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    Biobyte 3 - Lab reports as reproducible research
    This short activity introduces a discussion of reproducibility in scientific research and ways that we might address these ideas with undergraduates. There is an opportunity to use a prototype...

    Keywords: data sciencedsube

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