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Colorful wings send messages: Why are butterfly wings colorful?

Red postman butterflies live in tropical rainforests and have a mix of red, yellow, and black on their wings. These bright colors may warn predators or attract mates. Explore whether color alone or...

Keywords: Quantitative reasoningadaptationpredationfield workEvolution by natural selection and mutation

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1-136-MarriageAge-ModelingScenario

Students will build and analyze a model of the fraction of people who are married (for the first time) by a certain age. Students are asked to set up and solve these differential equations. They...

Keywords: messagesmarriageusing social sciences in forecastingdirected

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Ecology of Infectious Disease: Data Mining the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS) for Ecological Patterns

How to use publicly available infection case data to teach ecology and evolution of human infectious diseases.

Keywords: Evolutionecologyinfectious diseasehumansjigsawsmall group workEvolutionary medicinedata explorationCDCNNDSS

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Using Current Events to Teach Written, Visual, and Oral Science Communication

Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) professionals need the skills to communicate with both technical and public audiences, but formal training in these skills is often lacking....

Keywords: communicationscientific writingstorytellingaudiencecurrent events

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A Momentum-First Approach to Newton’s Second Law

Students frequently struggle with seeing the connection between forces and motion in introductory physics. This lesson is part of a combined momentum and kinematics unit that first teaches...

Keywords: group workMomentumNewton's Laws

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Real World Scenarios in Non-Majors Biology

Students in non-majors’ biology courses may not choose careers that require biology content knowledge; however, all will encounter science in their lives. We redesigned a non-majors...

Keywords: geneticsVaccinesScientific ProcessGMOsviruses

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Escape Zoom!: Reviewing Introductory Evolution Content Using an Escape Room Format

Reviewing and integrating key concepts and learning goals at the end of a biology course can be overwhelming to students and instructors alike. Often end-of-term review sessions in preparation for...

Keywords: Evolutionartificial selectionSpeciationextinctionsexual selectionphylogenetic treesmechanisms of evolution

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BioMap Degree Plan: A project to guide students in exploring, defining, and building a plan to achieve career goals

Traditional college students begin their academic journey with a variety of ideas about the careers they might ultimately pursue. Some students have always known what they want to do, some have...

Keywords: Career ExplorationCo-curricularsDegree Planning

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Fostering Student to Student Collaboration Across Institutions in a Protein Centric CURE

Collaboration is an essential component of research because it allows scientists to share expertise and tackle difficult scientific questions. While many undergraduate science courses include...

Keywords: communicationBiochemistrycollaborationCUREhypothesisStudent to StudentInter institutionalProtein CentricAssignments

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Air Quality Data Mining: Mining the US EPA AirData website for student-led evaluation of air quality issues

Air pollution directly affects human health endpoints including growth, respiratory processes, cardiovascular health, fertility, pregnancy outcomes, and cancer. Therefore, the distribution of air...

Keywords: data miningenvironmental justiceair qualityairpollutionspatial reasoning

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Investigating Cell Signaling with Gene Expression Datasets

Modern molecular biology is a data- and computationally-intensive field with few instructional resources for introducing undergraduate students to the requisite skills and techniques for analyzing...

Keywords: genomicstranscriptionsignaling

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The Comics Project: Synthesizing and Communicating Science with Comics

Students, especially non-science majors, often see science as abstracted from their daily lives. Moreover, students often struggle to translate scientific concepts into everyday language in order...

Keywords: communicating scienceScience & Societycomics

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Bad Science: Exploring the unethical research behind a putative memory supplement

As members of society, students must be able to evaluate scientific claims across a wide variety of media to make sound decisions about health and wellness. However, students - and most members of...

Keywords: bioethicsevaluationPseudoscienceRecognizing bad scienceScience process skills

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Adapting a Traditional Laboratory Exercise to Become Inquiry Based: An Example With an Introductory Biology Lab in Diffusion

Authentic research experiences are effective in fostering self-efficacy and increasing retention in STEM, particularly among minoritized student populations. Many instructors have sought to bring...

Keywords: protocolquestionDiffusionVariableshypothesisscience processcontrolscientific efficacy

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Cross-Course Public Health Project on Infectious Disease

The need for collaborative, public health education has never been more important. Students increasingly require necessary skills in effectively communicating critical information to the general...

Keywords: infectionpublic healthVaccinespathogenesisantibiotics

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A Fun Introductory Command Line Lesson: Next Generation Sequencing Quality Analysis with Emoji!

Radical innovations in DNA sequencing technology over the past decade have created an increased need for computational bioinformatics analyses in the 21st century STEM workforce. Recent...

Keywords: bioinformaticsgenomicscodingJupyter notebookcommand lineCyVersescriptingnext generation sequencing analysis

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Using Seafood Traceability to Teach the Complexities of Natural Resource Management and Sustainability

This lesson plan addresses the challenge of conveying to students the globalized nature and complexity of natural resource management. Specifically, it uses seafood traceability, or the ability to...

Keywords: sustainabilityfisheriesaquacultureAnthropogenic ImpactsNatural Resource Management

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DNA Detective: Genotype to Phenotype. A Bioinformatics Workshop for Middle School to College.

Advances in high-throughput techniques have resulted in a rising demand for scientists with basic bioinformatics skills as well as workshops and curricula that teach students bioinformatics...

Keywords: geneticsbioinformaticsDNAgenotypephenotypegenegene annotation

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Glycolysis Can Be Fun: Rediscovering Glycolysis as a Problem-Solving Introduction to Metabolism

A thorough understanding of glycolysis forms a foundation for students to analyze subsequent topics in metabolism, a core competency recognized by multiple national societies for biology and...

Keywords: Problem based learningguided inquiryenzymesGlycolysisMetabolismFermentationchemical reactionsCard sorting activityCofactors

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Colorful wings send messages: Why are butterfly wings colorful?

1-136-MarriageAge-ModelingScenario

Ecology of Infectious Disease: Data Mining the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS) for Ecological Patterns

Using Current Events to Teach Written, Visual, and Oral Science Communication

A Momentum-First Approach to Newton’s Second Law

Real World Scenarios in Non-Majors Biology

Escape Zoom!: Reviewing Introductory Evolution Content Using an Escape Room Format

BioMap Degree Plan: A project to guide students in exploring, defining, and building a plan to achieve career goals

Fostering Student to Student Collaboration Across Institutions in a Protein Centric CURE

Air Quality Data Mining: Mining the US EPA AirData website for student-led evaluation of air quality issues

Investigating Cell Signaling with Gene Expression Datasets

The Comics Project: Synthesizing and Communicating Science with Comics

Bad Science: Exploring the unethical research behind a putative memory supplement

Adapting a Traditional Laboratory Exercise to Become Inquiry Based: An Example With an Introductory Biology Lab in Diffusion

Cross-Course Public Health Project on Infectious Disease

A Fun Introductory Command Line Lesson: Next Generation Sequencing Quality Analysis with Emoji!

Using Seafood Traceability to Teach the Complexities of Natural Resource Management and Sustainability

DNA Detective: Genotype to Phenotype. A Bioinformatics Workshop for Middle School to College.

Glycolysis Can Be Fun: Rediscovering Glycolysis as a Problem-Solving Introduction to Metabolism

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