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    The impact of diversifying and humanizing science role models on student attitudes and interest in science careers
    We introduced diverse and humanized scientist role models into data literacy instruction and quantified changes in student attitudes towards science. We found that the impact of science role models...
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    Squirreling Around for Science: Observing Sciurid Rodents to Investigate Animal Behavior
    Hands-on research experiences are important opportunities for students to learn about the nature of inquiry and gain confidence in solving problems. Here, we present an inquiry-based lesson plan...

    Keywords: foragingbehaviorbehavioral ecologySciuridSquirrelSquirrel-NetTrade-offVigilance

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    Exploring Phage Immunity Systems with a Scientific Reading and Communication Activity
    This jigsaw assignment is designed to increase students’ understanding of phage immunity systems, through reading primary literature and communicating key aspects.
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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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    BSHS Calculus 2
    Based upon the University of Minnesota Bachelor's of Science in Health Science calculus curriculum (part 2), this course introduces linear transformations, ordinary differential equations, basic...

    Keywords: mathematicsmodelingmodulecalculuscourselinear algebracalculus 2Resources @ BioQUEST - Numbers Count

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    Climate of Change (Unit 5: Systems@Play) in nonmajors Environmental Science
    I implemented Unit 5 of the "Climate of Change" module into two weeks of my nonmajors Environmental Science course to cover the concepts of atmospheric science, climate change, and data...
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    Thinking deeply about quantitative analysis: Building a Biologist's Toolkit
    Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education encouraged faculty to focus on core concepts and competencies in undergraduate curriculum. We created a sophomore-level course, Biologists'...

    Keywords: Vision and ChangeRRStudioquantitative literacystatistical analysisScientific communication

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    Helping Students to Overcome STUMPS: Scientific terms undermined by meanings peripheral to science
    Many terms and phrases that are ubiquitous in everyday use have very different meanings in science. As a result, biology students often hold prior conceptions that are difficult to change. In this...

    Keywords: Evolutionfitnessprocess of sciencetree of lifemetacognitionlanguagemisconceptionsTerminologyTheory

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    Literature Review: Inclusive Calculus for Life Sciences
    We believe that a biology-relevant calculus experience (biocalculus) can help overcome many of these issues in calculus. While challenging to build the capacity for teaching courses, students in...

    Keywords: calculusbiocalculusidentityInclusive teachingcalculus epistemology

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    1-015-DimensionlessVariables-TechniqueNarrative
    This material introduces the idea of ``rescaling'' for ordinary differential equations (ODE's) by the use of dimensionless variables. In practice this is an extremely common and useful prelude to...

    Keywords: linearizationdimensional analysistime scalescalingdimensionless variablesspatial scale

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    2008-Taro-Blog on Modern Political Economy-Differential Equations in Our Life
    Differential equations - easy to hear but often impossible to solve- are around there in our life. If you are an econ learner, you have much time to express the economy by using differential...

    Keywords: bathtubhot coffeerunning taterexonomicsforgetting

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    1994-T_Gruszka-A Balloon Experiment in the Classroom
    The following experiment involves a balloon, a stopwatch, and a measurement device such as a meter stick,

    Keywords: resistancefalling bodydragballoon

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    1-079-HomeHeating-ModelingScenario
    This project concerns using Newton's Law of Cooling to model the heating of a house. In particular, if one is going away for awhile, is it more economical to leave a house at a desired temperature...

    Keywords: Optimal Control TheorytemperatureheatfurnaceNewton's Law of Coolinghome heatingspecific heat

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    1-118-SolowEconomicGrowth-ModelingScenario
    Students construct and analyze the celebrated Solow-Swan model of economic growth theory. The project is divided into three sequential parts to teach students to understand, develop, and analyze a...

    Keywords: optimizationeconomicssteady stategrowthSolow-Swan modelcapitalproductionlaborGolden Rule of Economic Growth

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    1-143-PopulationModelVariationsMATLAB-ModelingScenario
    Students will walk through a detailed derivation and review of basic population models (exponential and logistic) to create and understand variations of those models.

    Keywords: population dynamicsecologylogistic growthbifurcation theoryslope fieldsextinctionharvestingqualitative analysisstocking

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    Plant Defenses and Bioprospecting Mini-case Study
    This narrative mini-case study for use in undergraduate ecology courses reviews plant defense theory within the context of bioprospecting. Students learn about factors affecting plant defenses and...
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    Students of Color Identify Ways Enivronmental Faculty Can Advance Racial/Ethnic Diversity in Undergraduate Programs
    This grounded theory study documents the experiences of students of color in undergraduate environmental degree programs. Its results can inform faculty, staff, and administrators about how to...
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    Politeness Data
    The dataset recorded properties of formal and informal speech registers in Korean.

    Keywords: linguistics

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    Teacher Guide: Math and Statistics
    Topics include measures of average (mean, median, and mode), variability (range and standard deviation), uncertainty (standard error and 95% confidence interval), Chi-square analysis, student...

    Keywords: Resources @ HHMI - BioInteractiveStatistics and Mathteacher guide

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    2014-Allen-EtAl-Perturbations in Epidemiological Models -When zombies attack we can survive
    In this paper, we investigate the existence of stability-changing bifurcations in epidemiological models used to study the spread of zombiism through a human population.

    Keywords: epidemiologydynamical systemszombiesbifurcationperturbation

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