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    Performing a Population Viability Analysis from Data Students Collect on a Local Plant
    Experiment included in Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology (TIEE) Volume 9

    Keywords: RResources @ ESA - TIEEmatrix model

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    How the Scientific Method Works
    An episode dedicated to learning about how we explore our world using the scientific method.

    Keywords: scientific methodstuff you should knowResources @ QUBES - Teaching & Referencescienceepisodeexplore

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    Furry with a chance of evolution: Exploring genetic drift with tuco-tucos
    Genetic drift is an important mechanism of evolution, yet undergraduates often fail to understand how it leads to evolutionary change due in part to its random nature. This lesson plan describes a...

    Keywords: EvolutionGenetic DriftBottle neckFounder effectRandom evolutionary processes

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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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    Monkey Opsins
    This case will examine the evolution of trichromatic vision in old world monkeys.

    Keywords: modulephylogeneticsecologycell biologymolecular geneticsResources @ EvoEd

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    2009-Reid-King-Pendulum Motion and Differential Equations
    This article presents a relatively simple, real-world example that instructors can use in the classroom to let students explore the effect of simplifying assumptions on a model’s ability to reflect...

    Keywords: pendulumphysical pendulum

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    Follow the Sulfur: Using Yeast Mutants to Study a Metabolic Pathway
    Students are frequently overwhelmed by the complexity of metabolic pathways and they think they have "learned" the pathway when they have memorized the individual reactions.  This...

    Keywords: SelectionyeastMetabolismcysteinemediamethioninemutantPathwaysulfur

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    Climate Change Module- Beck Modifications (Project EDDIE)
    Students explore how climate is changing from the recent record
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    Developing Data Literacy Skills and Connecting the Student Experience in the Classroom to the Community Through Biodiversity Projects
    Undergraduate education and long-term science literacy are enhanced by integrating data projects with public datasets and creating analysis summaries. Underutilized public datasets are often...

    Keywords: species richnessBiodiversitydisturbanceHabitat rangePopulation abundance

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    Bad Science: Exploring the unethical research behind a putative memory supplement
    As members of society, students must be able to evaluate scientific claims across a wide variety of media to make sound decisions about health and wellness. However, students - and most members of...

    Keywords: bioethicsevaluationPseudoscienceRecognizing bad scienceScience process skills

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    3-099-PullBack-ModelingScenario
    We guide students through the development of an empirical model for the velocity and distance traveled of a simple pull-back toy. Students can record videos and extract data using their own...

    Keywords: dynamicspull-back toy

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    1-002-Tossing-ModelingScenario
    We offer students simulation experience or data from a simulation and ask them to model the simulation using several approaches, to include exponential decay fit, difference equation, and...

    Keywords: Modeling and simulationexponentialdecaydice

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    Processes that Regulate Patterns of Species and Genetic Diversity
    This activity was developed for an undergraduate upper level ecology course for Environmental or Biological Science majors. Classes of ~20 students work best for the activity.
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    Modification to What do Trees Know about the Rain
    Use of the tree ring data vs. precipitation to discuss how trees respond to drought

    Keywords: discussionslecture slidesgraphsgroup-ldcfmn

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    Developing Open Source Plugins for the Educational Gateway QUBEShub: Expanding Community Reach and Building a Robust Open Education Resource Ecosystem
    We present work on development of (1) a component to record, track and display the multitude of partners and professional organizations involved in the QUBES mission, and (2) a component to bring...

    Keywords: OERscience gatewaysgateways17

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    The Evolution of Color Vision in Monkeys: From Nucleotides to Ecology
    This case study examines the evolution color vision in Old World and New World monkeys from multiple biological perspectives.

    Keywords: phylogeneticsgenescase studybiologyResources @ NSF - NCCSTSColor visiondichromatictrichromaticnucleotidesproteinsopsinscell functioncone cellsphotoreceptorsspectral shiftgene duplicationmeiosissex-linkedfood gatheringmonkeysprimatesResources @ QUBES - Teaching & Referenceundergraduate biology education

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    Small Organisms with Big Consequences: Understanding the Microbial World Around Us
    Creating a hands-on lab that conveys important information while simultaneously allowing for student autonomy can be difficult. This is particularly true for the field of microbiology, in which...

    Keywords: disease transmissionmicrobiologymicrobiomeliterature reviewPeer reviewPathogensHealth and WellnessThe Scientific Method

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    Collections Education Coffee Break Series: Anne Basham from LepNet and SCAN on Vimeo
    Anne Basham (Founder ExplorMor Labs LLC/Co-Founder Bon-Earth, LeptNet and SCAN) Presenting on Natural history collections that connect marginalized elders with memory and the natural world. ...

    Keywords: idigbionatural history museumsnatural history collectionlife-long learnersinformal learningvulnerable learnersobject-based learninggeragogyU3A

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    Venom: To Kill or Cure?
    In this case study, students will explore concepts of evolution, protein structure and function, taxonomy, and methods of scientific inquiry in a real-world way.

    Keywords: EvolutionphylogeneticsidigbioAP Biologytaxonomynatural history collections3D modelsoVertVenomsnakesherps

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    AMS Mathematical Moments
    Discover the world of mathematics with Mathematical Moments, 8.5'' x 11'' pdfs, available in many different scientific topics.  

    Keywords: case studymathadvertisingsocietyResources @ AMSResources @ QUBES - Teaching & Referencesciencepictiresclassrooms

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