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    The Legacy of Redlining in Oakland, CA
    The issues of redlining and environmental justice will be introduced and used as a framework for a number of topics in the third part of the semester in a non-majors Environmental Science course.

    Keywords: environmental scienceenvironmental justiceredliningenvironmental racism

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    Regression: Tree Rings and Measuring Things
    Students develop scatter plots of growth rings by tree diameters and determine the equation of their best fit line.

    Keywords: NIMBiosregressiontree ringsline of best fit

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    Working with plant phenology data and fitting a nonlinear model using least squares in R
    A participatory live-coding lesson on working with NEON phenology data and fitting a sine-wave model to determine when different species get and lose their leaves.

    Keywords: modelingRphenologyNEONRstatscodeparticipatory live-coding

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    3D breast cancer tissue reconstruction
    This module allows students to follow a researcher as she discovers new features of breast cancer tissue architecture, using 3D reconstructions of histological specimens.

    Keywords: graphingdata visualizationbreast cancerDCIShistogramscentroidsums of squares

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    Leaf cutter ant foraging
    This module introduces students to leaf-cutter ants in the rainforests of Panama. Students derive their own research hypotheses regarding ant foraging or allometric scaling relationships.

    Keywords: leaf cutter antsforagingallometrylinear regressiongraphingdata visualizationResources @ AIMSbody size

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    2014-William_Trench-Elementary_Differential_Equations-Books_and_Monographs
    This is the most widely cited and referenced free online text for differential equations and is very complete. These two books are exactly what they say they are.

    Keywords: differential equationstextbook

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    Sex-specific differences in Meiosis: Real-world applications
    In traditional classrooms, students are typically presented with facts that they are asked to memorize and recall during an exam.  The rapid explosion of available scientific facts in recent...

    Keywords: meiosisReproductionAneuploidyGameteNon-disjunctionOocyteSpermTrisomy

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    Pesticides in My Smoothie Bowl?
    Teaching resources, especially active learning pedagogy, are scarce for toxicology compared to what is available for other disciplines. Ecological and human health risk assessment are...

    Keywords: data analysistoxicologychemical toxicityecological risk assessmenthuman risk assessmentpesticide

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    Your Tax Dollars at Work: A mock grant writing experience centered on scientific process skills
    A successful scientist combines skill, creativity, and the art of persuasion to excel in his or her field of study. Critically important for the professional scientist is the ability to not only...

    Keywords: researchexperimental designprocess of sciencePeer reviewgrant writingPecha Kuchaproposal

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    Central Dogma, Dictionaries, and Functions: Using Programming Concepts to Simulate Biological Processes
    Technologies like next-generation sequencing, proteomics, and high-throughput phenotyping have transformed the way we do biology. There is a continued need for scientists with computational skills...

    Keywords: computationpythonJupyter notebookFunctionscentral dogmaDictionaries

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    Make It Stick: Teaching Gene Targeting with Ribbons and Fasteners
    Manipulating gene expression is a commonly used tool to study the effect of a single gene or the hierarchy of gene networks in many different biological disciplines. When working with mice, the...

    Keywords: mathematical modelhomologous recombinationCre/loxgene targeting

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    Cold blood and wet skin in hot and dry secondary forests. How do amphibian traits determine persistence in secondary forests?
    Students will synthesize information from biological and physiological traits of amphibians and characteristics of secondary forests in the tropics to form hypotheses about persistence of...

    Keywords: life historyconservation biologyphysiological ecologyamphibianland use changeEctothermsecondary foresttrait-based ecology

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    Marsh Madness: Using Video Games and a Case Study to Explore Food Webs and Ecosystem Services in Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve
    As the complexity and interconnectedness of our world increases, we are continually expected to be capable of complex, non-linear thinking in order to successfully tackle and solve the challenges...

    Keywords: food webssystems thinkingGame Based LearningEcosystem Servicessocio-ecological networks

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    Restoring tropical forests: Is planting clusters of trees a cost-effective and ecologically-sound strategy to restore tropical forest?
    This module (available in four languages) provides a broad introduction to both ecological and social aspects of tropical forest restoration. It focuses on a long-term study comparing three...

    Keywords: Restoration Ecologyforest restorationtropical forest

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    Introduction to Primate Data Exploration and Linear Modeling with R
    Introduction to Primate Data Exploration and Linear Modeling with R was created with the goal of providing training to undergraduate biology research students on data management and statistical...

    Keywords: R programming languageprimatespopulation ecology

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    2008-Claire_Vailance-Reaction_Kinetics-Course_Notes
    This is but one of several set of notes which may interest the reader on chemical kinetics.

    Keywords: kineticsparametersrate constantchemical kineticsreactions

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    2001-A_Tsoularis-Analysis_of_logistic_growth_models
    The paper presents an historical development of the logistic equation in its various forms, including Verhulst, Pearl and Reed, Gompertz, Bertalanffy, Richards, and others.

    Keywords: logisticpopulationgrowth curvelimited growthGompertzhistorylogistic equationVerhulstPearl and ReedBertalanffyRichards

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    2011-Richard_Fitzpatrick-Newtonian_Dynamics
    This 300 page text is packed with motivational physics. Indeed, Professor Fitzpatrick brings us to the origins of why differential equations are the dominant tools of mathematics in the study of...

    Keywords: modelingtextbookphysicsbifurcation

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    2017-Thomas_Judson-The_Ordinary_Differential_Equations_Project
    This text is intended for a one-semester undergraduate course in ordinary differential equations. There are additional exercises or computer projects at the ends of many of the chapters.

    Keywords: projectsmathematical modeltextbooktechniquesfreeproofssageTheory

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    2014-Jiri_Lebl-Notes_on_Diffy_Qs_Differential_Equations_for_Engineers
    There is a pdf and html version of the text as well as a purchasable paperback version. The text has pretty much all the basics, but has only a few exercises and there is very little modeling.

    Keywords: differential equationstextbookengineering

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