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    Guided Goal Setting for Mentors and Mentees
    We provide a framework for research mentors and mentees to talk together and explicitly discuss expectations, assumptions, and goals for each party.

    Keywords: Undergraduate Mentorshipstudent mentoring and traininggoals

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    2020-TeachingModule-ModelingFallingColumnOfWater
    We discuss how to model a falling column of water empirically and analytically from first principles in physics laws.

    Keywords: modulecolumn of waterTorricelli's LawTorricelliTeaching Module

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    5-030-LinNonHomoSystemSol-TechniqueNarrative
    We offer strategies for solving linear systems of nonhomogeneous differential equations using a conjectured solution strategy for a system of constant coefficient, linear, n

    Keywords: strategiesdiscovery learningeigenvectorseigenvalue

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    BioQUEST Webinar: CourseSource - YouTube
    Follow the link to the webinar video, "An Introduction to the CourseSource Journal and Making Your Own Collections". This webinar provides an overview of CourseSource, how to publish your teaching...
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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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    Universal Design for Learning - Faculty Mentoring Network Introduction
    Overview of Universal Design for Learning, presented to a faculty mentoring network during a virtual meeting

    Keywords: Universal Design for LearningUDL

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    AVIDA exercise on the role of mutation in evolution
    A tested exercise at the college freshmen level using AVIDA-Ed to generate and test a hypothesis about the relationship between mutation rate and the probability of evolving a useful function in...
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    The Evolution of Human Skin Color
    My teaching notes for the Evolution of Human Skin Color case study.

    Keywords: EvolutionNatural SelectionSkin pigmentationskin colorvitamin Dvitamin B folateultraviolet lightUV light

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    Undergraduate Research at Lane Community College
    Session presentation on CURES at Lane Community College presented at the 2018 QUBES/BioQUEST Summer Workshop

    Keywords: undergraduate researchcommunitySummer Workshop 2018CUREs

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    Climate Change and Phenology: Evaluating Temperature, Precipitation, and Phenology of Frogs and Toads in Minnesota
    Students evaluate long term (100+ years) trends in temperature and precipitation, and then isolate a shorter time span (20 years) in which to evaluate the correlation between spring temps and the...

    Keywords: Resources @ ESA - TIEEclimate changephenologyamphibian

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    Managing Prairie Dogs for Ferret Reintroduction: A Case Study in an online environment
    The case study Managing Prairie Dogs for Ferret Reintroduction was modified to be used in an online environment.
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    Winter is Coming! Can you handle the freeze?
    This publication contains the adaptations I made to the Data Nuggets module in order to use it with an online, introductory, non-majors botany class. I used this with a unit on natural and...
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    Stem Cells in Planaria Regeneration and Wound Healing
    Discussion questions to help guide students examining a graph of number of mitoses vs time for planaria injured or had amputations of their tails.

    Keywords: Stem cellsregenerationplanaria

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    Allele and Phenotype Frequencies in Rock Pocket Mouse Populations
    A lesson that uses real rock pocket mouse data collected by Dr. Michael Nachman and his colleagues to illustrate the Hardy-Weinberg principle.

    Keywords: EvolutionResources @ HHMI - BioInteractiveNatural SelectionScientific ProcessStatistics and Mathevolution of populations

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    Drivers of Avian Local Species Richness: Continental-Scale Gradients, Regional Landscape, or Local Land Cover?
    Experiment included in Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology (TIEE) Volume 8

    Keywords: ecologyResources @ ESA - TIEEspecies richness

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    Teaching notes for "Investigating the footprint of climate change on phenology and ecological interactions in north-central North America"
    This is an FMN participant modification of the TIEE module "Investigating the footprint of climate change on phenology and ecological interactions in north-central North America,"...

    Keywords: ecologyLabfmnLectureUndergraduateData DiscoveryInstructional SettingAudience LevelAdvancedActivity LengthMore than 1 hour

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    The insect predation game: evolving prey defenses and predator responses
    This is an FMN participant modification of the TIEE module "The Insect Predation Game: Evolving Prey Defenses and Predator Responses," authored by W. Wyatt Hoback and Tamara L. Smith in...

    Keywords: ecologyIntroductoryLabEcological Society of AmericafmnUndergraduateData DiscoveryInstructional SettingAudience LevelActivity LengthMore than 1 hour

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    Investigating the footprint of climate change on phenology and ecological interactions in north-central North America
    This is an FMN participant supplement for the TIEE module "Investigating the footprint of climate change on phenology and ecological interactions in north-central North America," authored...

    Keywords: ecologyLabEcological Society of AmericafmnLectureUndergraduateData DiscoveryInstructional SettingAudience LevelActivity LengthMore than 1 hour

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    SIR BuildIt
    An introduction to epidemiological models using interactive Excel worksheets

    Keywords: modelinginfectious diseaseInfectious Disease ModelingSIR modelsSIR

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    Measuring streamflow using the float method
    Streamflow, the amount of water flowing in a creek, stream, or river at a certain point in time, is critical to people and the environment. Knowing the amount of flowing water is important for...

    Keywords: River Field Studies Networkstreamflowstreamflow measurements

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