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    Implementing an online module about impacts of pollution from gold mining in an undergraduate ecology course in the Pacific Northwest, USA
    Students learn about biomagnification of toxins, build skills in graphical interpretation, and apply field methods to tackle complex issues about small-scale gold mining in the Peruvian Amazon....

    Keywords: food websmercury biogeochemistryBioaccumulationbiomagnificationPeruvian Amazon

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    Between a rock and a hard place. What can turning rocks tell us about land-use change impacts on animals living in a rock outcrop?
    Unique rock outcrops in the Western Ghats biodiversity hotspot in India provide a setting that challenges students to develop a study to assess the impact of land-use change on threatened animals...

    Keywords: conservationagricultureland useamphibianstropicalbiodiversity losslateritic outcropopen natural ecosystemsreptilesrocks

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    A rainforest with a gold chain? The impacts of gold mining on the trophic web of an Amazonian rainforest of SE Peru
    The use of mercury in artisanal gold mining affects aquatic and terrestrial food webs in the Peruvian Amazon. Learn about bioaccumulation, explore data on mercury deposition in vegetation and how...

    Keywords: conservation biologydeforestationhuman healthpollutionbiodiversity losstropical land use

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    Teaching the Photoelectric Effect Using an Open-Source Interactive Simulation
    The photoelectric effect is one of the fundamental experiments that established the basis of quantum mechanics. Students studying this experiment in modern physics courses struggle to understand...

    Keywords: photoelectric effectquantum mechanicsquantalight-matter interactions

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    Functional trait-based restoration. Can hybrid restoration enhance invasion resistance and ecosystem services?
    A hybrid restoration experiment in Hilo, Hawaiʻi, in an area of high biocultural conservation value, that address the ecological and philosophical issues involved in conducting restoration with a...

    Keywords: Invasive SpeciesagroforestryHawaii CountyRestoration Ecologyplant functional traitstropical forest

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    Snapshot Serengeti Online Lab
    Snapshot Serengeti is a fully online inquiry-based lab that uses real camera-trap data from Serengeti National Park in Tanzania to explore themes of tropical ecology and animal behavior.

    Keywords: ecologyspecies interactionscitizen scienceCommunity Ecologyanimal behaviormigration ecologyScience Communicationspecies distributionspredator-prey interactionsTropical ecologycamera trapsSerengetisavannah biome

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    Wildlife Crossings in Costa Rica: Are wildlife crossing structures effective in mitigating roadkill mortality on tropical highways?
    Meet Jack Ewing, an ecotourism pioneer in Costa Rica who fought to safeguard wildlife from roadkill mortality caused by enlargement of a major highway. This module presents the topic of road...

    Keywords: Biodiversityconservation biologyland use changeRoad Ecologyecosystem managementfragmentation

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    Adaptation of Environmental Pollution & Public Health for Water and Emerging Contaminants (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 EDDIEwater qualitypollutionpfas

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    RAT ATTACK! Population growth
    This module contains exercises focused on the use and interpretation of density independent and density dependent population growth models. Students build logistic and exponential growth models in...

    Keywords: modelingecologyExcelintroductory biologygraphingQuantitative reasoningdata visualizationinterdisciplinaryexponential growthlogistic growthdata managementInterpreting Graphspopulation modelingNIQBC2. Data and GraphsC4. mathematical modelsnonlinear models

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    2007-Bellomo-De_Angelis-Delitala-Lecture Notes on Mathematical Modelling in Applied Sciences
    The Lectures Notes correspond to the first part of the course devoted to modelling issues to show how the application of models to describe real world phenomena generates mathematical problems to...

    Keywords: spring massLegendre polynomialsintegro-differential equationskinetic theory

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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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    When tests disagree, how do I know if I have COVID-19?
    Students will learn about infectious disease and the immune response to infection by investigating different types of tests (PCR, antigen, and antibody tests) to detect the SARS-CoV-2 viral genetic...

    Keywords: geneticsVision and Changeintroductory biologyinfectious diseasemolecular biologycore competenciesRT-PCRviruscore conceptsnon-majors biologySARS-CoV-2antibodyAntigenImmunoReachmolecular DiagnosticsCOVID-19 transmission

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    Splicing it Together: Using Primary Data to Explore RNA Splicing and Gene Expression in Large-Lecture Introductory Biology
    At the heart of scientific ways of knowing is the systematic collection and analysis of data, which is then used to propose an explanation of how the world works. In this two-day module, students...

    Keywords: gene regulationtranscriptiongene expressioncentral dogmarepressoralternative splicingmRNA processingActivatorTranscription factors

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    Introduction to Phylogenetic Trees for Comparative Genomic Analysis
    In this activity, students are introduced to phylogenetic trees and networks as tools for analyzing evolutionary relationships.
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    Data Nugget- City Parks and Texas A&M University-Kingsville Camera Trap Assignment
    The Data Nugget- City Parks module was used in a sophomore-junior level undergraduate wildlife management techniques course (with lab) in Fall 2017. Modifications were made to the original Data...

    Keywords: species richnessspecies diversityResource Typecamera trap

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    Exploring the Lytic and Lysogenic Life Cycles of Bacteriophages
    The goal of this lesson is to introduce students to the lytic and lysogenic cycles of T4 and lambda bacteriophages, respectively, using student-centered pedagogies. Bacteriophages are viruses that...

    Keywords: bacteriophagesLysogenic cycleLysogenyLytic cycle

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    Vitamin C for Colds? Writing LETTERS to Synthesize and Communicate Results from Multiple Studies
    Interpreting experimental results is a key part of evidence-based reasoning. However, it is challenging for students to synthesize data from multiple sources to reach their own conclusions. As...

    Keywords: pre-healthphysiologyScience Communicationscientific literacyScientific Processconventional wisdomscientific methods

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    A Structured Inquiry-Based Module for the Undergraduate Cell Biology Laboratory That Teaches Fundamental Concepts of Cell Differentiation
    Pedagogical research in science education has shown that students effectively learn science by doing science. As a result, there is increased interest in bringing research-like experiences into the...

    Keywords: fluorescence microscopygene expressionpolymerase chain reactionCell Structurecell culturewestern blottingdifferentiationreverse transcription

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    Integrating Community Ecology Into the Study of Parasites: Exploring the Effect of Host Behavior on Parasite Transmission Rates
    Organismal life cycles are often presented as a set of facts to memorize in undergraduate biology courses. This approach is cognitively demanding for students and fails to convey how central life...

    Keywords: statisticsspecies interactionsQuantitative reasoninggraphsCommunity EcologyParasitologyfood webs

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    "Reading groups" in an undergraduate biology course: A peer-based model to help students develop skills to evaluate primary literature
    Undergraduates who learn to evaluate primary literature demonstrate an enhanced ability to understand the process of science, weigh scientific evidence, and think critically (e.g. 6,8). Studies...

    Keywords: primary literaturecritical thinkingSelf-EfficacyDiscussionPeer-based Learning

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