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    Exploring Fundamental Concepts of Phage Immunity Systems: A jigsaw activity
    This jigsaw assignment is designed to increase students’ understanding of phage immunity systems
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    BioGraphI OER Lesson Guide Template - Google Docs
    This template of a lesson plan was developed for the Biologists and Graph Interpretation (BioGraphI) Network. Curriculum developers use it to make a BioGraphI module.

    Keywords: Curriculum developmentcurriculum designBioGraphIBioGraphI FMN

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    Hewlett Foundation - Bates Final Evaluation Report 2021
    Evaluation findings of Hewlett Foundation award to Bates College

    Keywords: QUBES HubSTEM EvaluationSCORE Network

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    Network for Integrating Bioinformatics into Life Sciences Education (NIBLSE): Recent Activities
    Presentation on NIBLSE at the 2019 Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference

    Keywords: bioinformaticsNIBLSEincubators

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    Reflective Writing - 2-page handout & Teaching Notes
    This activity introduces the research showing a benefit of reflective writing, and then uses a modified version of the prompt from Park et al. to provide practice. Includes Teaching Notes.

    Keywords: writingreflective writingmath attitudesResources @ BIOMAAP

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    DIG into Data for the Biology Classroom
    Session presentation on ecological data-centric teaching modules at the 2018 QUBES/BioQUEST Summer Workshop

    Keywords: teaching with data.DIGSummer Workshop 2018ecological datasets

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    Mammal Bones & Homologies
    Short activity for a laboratory covering mammal skulls, teeth, bones, dichotomous keys, and homologies (using Blackburn lab Sketchfab). Included in the package is a document for teaching...
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    THE IMPORTANCE OF GREEN SPACES & NATIVE PLANTS TO URBAN AVIFAUNA: A Lesson on how urban residential yards can support birds during their annual cycle
    In this lesson students will learn about the impacts of urbanization, and the conservation challenges it poses to wildlife, in particular avifauna. Introductory ecology topics such as the theory of...

    Keywords: birdsurbanizationPoisson Distributionnative plantsGeneralized linear models

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    BSL-4: Authorized Personnel Only
    National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science resource on the 2014 Ebola epidemic. This resource is also included in the NIBLSE Learning Resource Collection

    Keywords: infectious diseaseexperimental designbioinformaticsEbolaNIBLSECase It!PCRBLASTmultiple sequence alignmentPublished in National Center for Case Study Teaching in Sciencepolymerase chain reactionfebrile illnessvirusELISAenzyme linked immunosorbent assayfilovirusAfrica

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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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    Tying it All Together: An Activity to Help Students Connect Course Experiences to Posted Learning Outcomes
    Instructors of undergraduate courses in Biology and other Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines face an ongoing challenge to foster higher-order thinking and learning...

    Keywords: metacognitionreflectiongoalsOutcomes

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    Problem-Based Learning for Physiology: Synthesizing the Cardiovascular System, Respiration, Macronutrient Metabolism, and Renal Function
    Problem Based Learning (PBL) is a valuable tool for helping students overcome reliance on memorization by scaffolding opportunities for them to practice the competency of...

    Keywords: MetabolismObesityblood pressurecardiac functioncardiovascularmetabolic syndromerenalRespirationrespiratory system

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    1-024-MalariaControl-ModelingScenario
    This project offers students a chance to make policy recommendations based on the analysis of models using both linear (exponential decay) and non-linear (logistic growth) differential equations.

    Keywords: population dynamicsmalariaPolicyDecision-makingEuler's methodpharmacokineticsmosquitoimproved Euler's methodHuen's methodUS Army

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    6-018-ExploringSIRModel-ModelingScenario
    Students will transform, solve, and interpret Susceptible Infected Recovered (SIR) models using systems of differential equation models. The project is progressively divided into three parts to...

    Keywords: population dynamicssensitivitydiseaseSIR modelsepidemicrumors

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    State Apportionment Lesson Plans and Task
    Three secondary teachers and a mathematics education researcher planned two lessons and revised them through lesson study. The teachers adapted the State Apportionment Task from the Mathematical...

    Keywords: votingproportional reasoning

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    Assessment
    This can be given at the beginning and end of the BIOMAAP program, in order to measure student changes in math anxiety.

    Keywords: surveymath attitudesResources @ BIOMAAP

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    An evolution curriculum designed around understanding the rise and spread of drug-resistant pathogens
    Poster on teaching concepts in evolution and data science skills in an upper level Biology elective at Spelman College presented at the 2018 QUBES/BioQUEST Summer Workshop

    Keywords: EvolutionRdata sciencedrug resistanceSummer Workshop 2018

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    Evaluation of DEIJ practices in learning spaces
    Our Accelerating Systemic Change Network (ASCN) Working Group 5 is a group which focuses on DEIJ - Diversity, Equity, Inclusive and Justice. Taking into account the evolution of learning...

    Keywords: stemassessmentUndergraduatescienceFacultyriosDEIJASCNlearning space

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    Student and Faculty Tools for Generating High-Quality Phage Annotations
    Phage genome annotation requires collaboration between faculty and their student research team. This set of resources provides tools to assist both students and faculty in the evaluation and...
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    Soil Respiration Module (Project EDDIE)
    Soils hold more carbon (C) than any other component of the terrestrial biosphere!

    Keywords: Project EDDIE

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