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    The Magic of Doctopus: A quick and easy way to deliver pre-named, pre-shared Google documents directly to your students’ Google drive
    Cloud-based applications, such as Google Docs, enable authors to collaboratively write and edit documents, spreadsheets, and other products.  Such collaborations can provide powerful learning...

    Keywords: metacognitiontechnologyGoogle Doc

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    The 4-Minute Summary: Helping students recall, recap and explain the big picture... and much more!
    Actively engaging students during a lecture class can come through many formats.  The 4-Minute Summary is a versatile pedagogy that can be readily applied to any class format (e.g.,...

    Keywords: active learningDiscussionLarge classSummary

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    Modeling the Research Process: Authentic human physiology research in a large non-majors course
    Laboratory experiences in large-enrollment introductory science courses often utilize “cookie-cutter style” laboratory experiences due to the relative simplicity of setting up the lab...

    Keywords: data analysishypothesis testingexperimental designphysiology

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    Bad Cell Reception? Using a cell part activity to help students appreciate cell biology, with an improved data plan and no loss in coverage
    With a veritable myriad of cell parts to cover, it is easy for educators to become locked into marathon presentations that become taxing for both the instructor and the students. While we hope and...

    Keywords: primary literatureprokaryotesCell partsEukaryotesOrganelle functionOrganelles

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    Highlights of the Hewlett-Foundation Grant Award to Bates College (February 2021)
    End-of grant highlights of the Hewlett-Foundation grant award to Bates College: Supporting more equitable and sustainable open education across STEM
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    HF Bates Mid Year Progress Report
    Mid-year highlights of the Hewlett Foundation Grant Award to Bates College: Supporting more equitable and sustainable open education across STEM

    Keywords: STEM Evaluation

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    Reflective Writing Tools: Building Skills and Habits of Thinking in Becoming a Scientist
    Reflective writing tools are intended to help students better connect current learning experiences to prior learning, engage the role of emotion in current and future learning, and assess learning...

    Keywords: STEM educationreflective writingMentorshipambiguityindependenceperseverance

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    Team microBIOME Fall 2020 - DIY microbiome analysis
    This is our final team report for this year's BIOME Institute 2020. Learn about what we got up to and what we're planning for Spring 2021. If you want more information on REMNet go...

    Keywords: microbiomeDNA SubwayDIYREMNet microbiomesNephele

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    Case Study — World records as measures of senescence or randomness
    This is a project meant to accompany the Case Study that Carl Bergstrom, which uses R to explore whether declining track and field world record performance could be an artifact of sample size (less...

    Keywords: RRStudioprogrammingsampling distributionProbability & Statisticsrandomnesscontinuous probability distribution

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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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    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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    Ciliate Genomics Consortium: a professional learning community sharing modular curricula to support undergraduate research in the classroom
    The Ciliate Genomics Consortium (CGC) employs an integrative teaching and research model that combines both inquiry-driven class laboratory activities and collaborative consortium pedagogies to...
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    Investigating human impacts on stream ecology: locally and nationally
    This is a modification of an original TIEE Module, investigating these questions: How does nutrient pollution impact stream ecosystems locally and nationally? How does land cover change impact...

    Keywords: tool:rstudiolandscape ecologyStream ecologyBox Plotsland usespatial analysisEutrophication

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    Data management and introduction to QGIS and RStudio for spatial analysis
    Students learn about the importance of good data management and begin to explore QGIS and RStudio for spatial analysis purposes. Students will explore National Land Cover Database raster data and...

    Keywords: tool:rstudioGISdata managementlandscape ecologyGeospatial ScienceNational Ecological Observatory Networkquantitative inquiryQGIS

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    Does explicitly teaching leadership skills increase student persistence in STEM fields?
    Poster on leadership skills presented at the 2019 BioQUEST & QUBES Summer Workshop
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    How Many More Thymes & Herbivore Defense
    Adaptations to the How Many More Thymes? case study featuring terpene-based herbivore defense and pollinator attraction in Nicotiana plants.

    Keywords: food websgenotypephenotypeHerbivoryherbivoredeterrencemonoterpeneproducerchemotypeThymus vulgaristhymeMediterranean ecosystemchemical defensesManduca sextaNicotiana

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    UW Data Science for Social Good program
    The UW Data Science for Social Good (DSSG) program partners eScience Data Scientists and Student Fellows from across the country with Project Leads from academia, government, and the private sector...
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    DataONE Module 03: Data Management Planning
    Benefits of a data management plan (DMP), DMP components, tools for creating a DMP, NSF DMP information, and a sample DMP.

    Keywords: moduledatain-class activityHandoutproblem setdata managementDataONEPresentation

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    Java Applets for Power and Sample Size
    This is a Java application that allows you to do power and sample-size calculations for a number of standard statistical models.

    Keywords: statisticspowerstatistical powersample sizeeffect sizestatistical tests

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    Modeling Crop Rotation with Discrete Mathematics
    The module develops discrete mathematics models that allow for creation of crop rotation schedules meeting a variety of needs.

    Keywords: modulesustainabilitydiscrete mathematicsagricultureResources @ DIMACSResources @ QUBES - Teaching & Referencescienceexperiment

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