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    Number Sense
    In this activity, students demonstrate their own innate number sense by playing an online game that asks them to estimate quantities that are flashed on screen for only milliseconds. Research...
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    Introduction to Growth Mindset
    This module introduces students to the research supporting ‘growth mindset,’ the idea that you can increase your brainpower and ability through effort
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    Intro to BIOMAAP - Student Math Anxiety Overview
    This presentation is intended as a stand alone 45 minutes-1 hour presentation to give students general information on math anxiety and a few strategies to try on their own.
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    Intro to BIOMAAP - Student Introduction
    This presentation is intended as a short, in-class introduction to the program and some of the research behind it, in hopes of generating ‘buy in’ for a course-long use of BIOMAAP materials.
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    Intro to BIOMAAP - Faculty Math Anxiety Overview
    This presentation is intended as a stand alone 45 minute-1 hour presentation to introduce faculty or other instructors to the idea of math anxiety and some strategies they can use in their own...
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    Figure of the Day
    Students use their number sense to make observations and come up with reasonable guesses or explanations for the patterns shown.
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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.
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    Answer Checking
    This activity provides students with a set of strategies they can use to check their own answers in their biology and other courses. Students practice the answer checking strategies on a series of...
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    Laboratory exercises on microbial growth, horizontal gene transfer, competition and evolution
    Simple laboratory exercises to reinforce student learning when performed in conjunction with NetLogo simulations.

    Keywords: microbiology

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    Sample NetLogo Code of Bacterial Growth
    Each NetLogo file is a sequential version of the final bacterial growth model produced in the Bacterial Growth Tutorial. These are to be used as checks to one's understanding alongside the tutorial.
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    Dendroclimatology
    Dendroclimatologists can reconstruct climate records further into the past than written records, by examining tree rings. Students "reverse-engineer" this process by considering growth rates of a...
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    3D breast cancer tissue reconstruction
    This module allows students to follow a researcher as she discovers new features of breast cancer tissue architecture, using 3D reconstructions of histological specimens.
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    3D breast cancer tissue reconstruction image files
    Database of image files for AIMS Resource: 3D breast cancer tissue reconstruction

    Keywords: Resources @ AIMS

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    Globally endangered sea turtles of the Palmyra Atoll National Wildlife Refuge: A Focus on Scientific Analysis
    in this exercise students will make suggestions for designing a comprehensive research program, use survey data, critically analyze results, and devise methods for study.

    Keywords: case study

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    Salamander Mark-Recapture using SPARCnet plots with the Schnabel Method
    A salamander mark-recapture module where students field collect a third survey occasion to estimate population size
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    Regulating Carbon Emissions
    Learn how to incorporate these teaching materials into your class. Find out what's included with each module. Learn how it can be adapted to work in your classroom.
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    Managing Prairie Dogs for Ferret Reintroduction
    This case study explores the ecological relationship between black-tailed prairie dogs and black-footed ferrets.
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    A Pipeline in Paradise, Part 1: Learning the Relevant Science
    This case requires students to integrate information across the following five “knowledge domains” to develop a baseline understanding of the problem.
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    Tell Them We Don't Want to Leave: The Marshallese and Sea-Level Rise (2014-10) | SESYNC
    This case study will expose students to the ways in which social-environmental systems operate and connect across different scales.
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    Pokemon Go and Ecology
    These are resources associated with using Pokemon Go to teach concepts in Ecology.

    Keywords: Pokemon Go

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