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    Map Your Hazards! – Assessing Hazards, Vulnerability and Risk
    The Map Your Hazards module provides students an interactive mechanism to engage in place-based exploration of natural hazards, social vulnerability, risk and the factors that shape their...

    Keywords: earth scienceenvironmental scienceglobal changenatural hazardsenvironmental studiesenvironmental sociologyResources @ InTeGrate

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    STEM Inclusive Teaching Practices Episode 4
    Beyond Techniques: A Phenomenological Approach to Inclusive Teaching with Dr. Mays Imad.

    Keywords: teaching strategiesinclusionInclusive teachingphenoPhenomenological

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    Geography and Embodied Perceptions: a pathway to reanimating rivers through lived experiences.
    In this lesson students embark upon a journey through the many ways we come to know a watershed, with foci on its physical geography and our embodied perceptions. This enables students to formulate...

    Keywords: PhilosophygeographyRiver Field Studies Networkperceptionwatershednature journalexperiencesensationhumanityplacehomeembodied perceptionsense of placeplace attachmenttransdisciplinaryqualitative methodscalable

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    1-019-RocksInTheHead-Modeling Scenario
    We describe an experiment with data on the perception of the individual mass of a collection of rocks in comparison to a 100 g brass mass. Students use the logistic differential equation as a...

    Keywords: logistic growthparameter estimationexperiment

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    Defenses against predation: Interpreting graphs of predator behavior
    In this lesson, students discuss anti-predator defense mechanisms and the types of cues defenses provide to predators. Students then interpret graphs of behavior of arthropod predators when...

    Keywords: graph interpretationfmndata literacyinterspecific interactionsconsumptionBioGraphIrepresentation in STEMarthropodsaposematismphenotypic variationtortoise beetlecarton-nest antspraying mantisorb-weaving spider

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    Climate Change
    This video describes the basic science of climate change. How do we know about climate in the past? What are humans interfering with? How can we make predictions about what will happen in the future?

    Keywords: videosclimate changeScience Forward

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    The struggle is valid: Increasing student science identity and quantitative skills
    This poster outlines the approach to our research on science identity and quantitative skills. Our approach includes an established educational researcher to assure that our design, approach,...

    Keywords: data visualizationquantitative skillsSelf-Efficacyinclusive classroomsdiversity equity and inclusionscience identityBIOME 2022survey instruments

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    Grappling with Graphs: New tools for improving graphing practices among biology students
    Poster on gathering information about undergraduate biology students' graphing practices and using this information to guide teaching of graph construction. Presented at the 2021 BIOME Institute.

    Keywords: educationbiologygraphinggraphsundergraduate biology education2021 BIOMEgraph

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    Coyote Habituation and a Scientist Spotlight on Dr. Christopher Schell
    Dr. Christopher Schell is an ecologist who uses a variety of techniques to study mammalian carnivores in urban areas. This scientist spotlight uses graphs from his study on parental habituation to...

    Keywords: conservation ecologyanimal behaviorurban ecologyInterpreting GraphsBLACK SCIENTISTS IN STEMcoyotes

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    Scientific Uncertainty
    This video explores what scientists mean when they talk about uncertainty and how it differs from the way this uncertainty is perceived by the public. We start with 2014’s record heat and end up...

    Keywords: videosScience Forwarduncertaintyskepticismcommunicating science

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    Exploring Miracle Fruit: An Undergraduate Laboratory Exercise on Experimental Design
    In recent years, undergraduate biology and biochemistry curricula have seen an increase in the use of course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs). CUREs maximize potential student gains...

    Keywords: sensory systemspHProtein shapeTaste

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    Exploring EnvironmenATL Justice with Data Analytics and Visualization
    Basic data handling and data analysis skills are introduced to visualize and analyze ‘big data.’ Environmental justice is introduced to give students an understanding of tools and strategies to...

    Keywords: social justiceenvironmental justiceatlantaHBCUsCulturally responsive science teachingenvironmental racismenvironmental injustice

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    The Flight Physics Concept Inventory: Reliably Evaluating Aerodynamic Lift, Drag and Associated (Naïve) Concepts of Flight in Class and In-Game
    Students often struggle to transfer conceptual understanding from isolated instruction to a coherent mental model. This is especially true for the context of flight physics, fluid dynamics, or the...

    Keywords: active learninggamificationmisconceptionsaerodynamicsfluid dynamicsResearch-based assessment instrumentConceptual SurveyPRE-/POST-test

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    Facilitating Scientific Literacy Through Writing: A Write-to-Learn Assignment for Large Introductory Undergraduate Biology Courses
    Write-to-learn (WTL) assignments have been used in a variety of disciplines to encourage conceptual learning and critical thinking in undergraduate education. These assignments focus on...

    Keywords: geneticsEvolutionecologyCellsPlants form and functionAnimals form and function

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    Bacteria to Brains in Backyard Coyotes: An Interdisciplinary Pedagogical Case Study
    Our interdisciplinary pedagogical case study explores the differences between rural and urban coyotes at the levels of organismal and community ecology. The focus is on how coyotes’ gut...

    Keywords: dietanimal behaviorimmune systemmicrobiomeNervous systemgut-brain axisImmunoReachdysbiosisCoyoteCytokines

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    Biology from Molecules to Embryos, Interactive Animated Lessons
    Visualizing kinetic processes can be an impediment to student mastery of basic science coursework. To remedy this obstacle, I created an educational program called Biology from Molecules to...

    Keywords: geneticsBIOMEEmbryologycomputer assisted instructioneducational programeducational videosonline lessonsanimated lessonseducational website

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    Lateral Transfer Maps as a Metacognitive Tool in First Year STEM Courses
    We introduce the Lateral Transfer Map (LTM), a tool for students to actively and visually explore the transfer of ideas, skills, and concepts across concurrent coursework. The LTM is an extension...

    Keywords: concept mapmetacognitionfirst-year studenttransfer

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    SCIENCE/Fiction: Modular Template for Class Design
    We present a modular scaffold for designing an introductory seminar using speculative fiction and science papers to welcome university undergraduates to the biology major. A list of twelve possible...

    Keywords: geneticscell biologyneurosciencesystems biologyScience Fiction

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    Ain't No Mountain Pine Enough: A Case Study of How Mountain Pine Beetles are Affecting Ecosystem Processes
    This case study engages students in generating hypotheses and predictions, analyzing and interpreting data, critically evaluating contrasting results in science, and thinking about feedbacks...

    Keywords: population biologycarbon cyclingSpecies-habitat interactions

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    Bioinformatics is a BLAST: Engaging First-Year Biology Students on Campus Biodiversity Using DNA Barcoding
    In order to introduce students to the concept of molecular diversity, we developed a short, engaging online lesson using basic bioinformatics techniques. Students were introduced to basic...

    Keywords: geneticsorganismal biologybioinformaticstaxonomyDNA Barcodingspecies concepts

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