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    SWP Biology Writing Resource Guide
    This Guide was created by the STEM Writing Project at Wake Forest University. We are STEM teachers and education researchers who want to make scientific writing a bigger part of students' training....

    Keywords: teaching scientific writing

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    Creating Game-Based IDEAs using Twine (BIOME 2022)
    Games and gamification-principles are powerful tools that increase engagement and improve learning outcomes when applied appropriately to STEM instruction. The interactive nature of games allows...
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    Digging up history with a ‘real-life Indiana Jones’ Dr. Sarah Barber
    In this exciting talk, Dr. Sarah "Stacy" Barber discusses her exciting research covering: 1. Documentation of geological, hydrodynamic, and ecological change in the Indian River Lagoon, and 2....

    Keywords: human impactsarchaeology

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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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    Fluoxetine and Crab Behavior: Multiple Linear Regression
    This publication explores the behavioral influence of pharmaceutical pollution on a species of estuarine crab. Fluoxetine is a commonly prescribed, fairly effective anti-depressant and anti-anxiety...

    Keywords: ecologyaquatic ecosystemswater qualitypharmaceutical sciences

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    Impact of Warming on Tidal Wetlands
    This lesson uses a t-test and ANOVA to determine if higher temperatures will have a significant impact on change in mangrove height, change in belowground biomass, and change in surface elevation...

    Keywords: climate changesea-level risesalt marshTidal WetlandElevation ChangeMangrove Forest

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    Are you learning R? Suggestions to help you as you learn.
    Learning how to code and analyze data in R is an important skill. Olivia Tabares and the Ecological Forecasting Education Working Group created this resource to encourage individuals who are...

    Keywords: R code

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    US Forest Service land management efforts with Kurt Sable
    Kurt Sable has been a Hydrologist for the US Forest Service for 17 years, working for three different National Forests in Northern California. He supplies insight on the watershed restoration...

    Keywords: forest ecologyhydrologywildfirenatural resources

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    Home sweet home for warblers: Graphing and Analysis using R
    This resource expands on the Data Nugget "Trees and bushes, Home Sweet Home for Warblers". The analyses and graphing is done in R and there are questions that ask about the management implications.

    Keywords: graphingCommunity Ecologydata interpretationR software

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    BIOME 2021 QSSI Lightning talk
    Our team, Quantitative Skills and Science Identity (QSSI), met in the fall of 2021 to discuss and develop a methodology to assess the effectiveness of Data Nugget/Scientist Spotlight activities. We...

    Keywords: assessmentquantitative skillsData Nuggetscientist spotlightsBIOME 2021

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    Sharing Stories: Developing OER around Podcasts
    Our team met in the fall of 2021 to discuss and develop resources around podcasts. We created lists of podcast episodes for several courses, learned about listening guides, shared assignment...

    Keywords: podcastslistening guides

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    Exploring Plant Phenology using Herbarium Specimens: Lab or Workshop
    In this workshop or lab exercise, participants will examine the effects of climate on the phenological events of a selected species using herbarium specimen data.
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    The Ames Test
    Introduction to the Ames Test, published as GSA Learning Resource

    Keywords: geneticsNIBLSEDNAames testassay

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    CC-CURE Report Out from the BIOME 2020 Institute
    This resource includes a collection of videos describing some of the outcomes from the Interdisciplinary and Cross Course CURE working group.

    Keywords: course-based undergraduate research experience

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    BS Inventory assignment
    This is a written assignment with a recommended process and grading rubric to go with the BS Inventory assignment on callingbull.org.

    Keywords: data visualizationprojectdata collectiondata vizcreativitymisinformationreal worldbull

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    Weekly Reflection Template for Calling Bull
    This is a weekly reflection template designed to induce reflection about week's themes, integrate the week's themes into ones life, and identify any issues or successes students are having to...

    Keywords: reflectionengagementdata vizmisinformationmemesweekly

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    Setting Up Nonparametric Tests
    This swirl lesson will show you how to rearrange your data within R from one that shows a multiple factor design (2 x 2) to a single factor (4 levels) to allow for data analyses that require...
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    Incubators: Building community networks and developing open educational resources to integrate bioinformatics into life sciences education
    To efficiently and effectively integrate bioinformatics instruction into undergraduate life science curricula, educators would benefit from open access, high-quality learning resources (LRs) for...

    Keywords: bioinformaticsNIBLSEincubatorsLife Science

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    Growing from Tiny Earth: A model for interdisciplinary CUREs at Johnson County Community College
    This resource includes a video that highlights how Tiny Earth is implemented and a poster that shows independent research done by students after participating in the CURE courses.

    Keywords: researchCURECUREs

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    BioSkills Guide
    The BioSkills Guide comprises program- and course-level learning outcomes for the Vision and Change core competencies that elaborate what general biology majors should be able to do by the time...
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