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    Development of the NIBLSE Learning Resource Collection and Incubators
    Talk on the NIBLSE Resource Collection and Incubators given at several professional development confernces

    Keywords: bioinformaticsNIBLSEincubators

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    Quantitative Modeling by Biology UnderGraduate Students
    Workshop for biology faculty at University of Houston on the QUBES and QM BUGS projects

    Keywords: QUBESQM BUGS

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    The Insect Predation Game: Evolving Prey Defenses and Predator Responses
    Laboratory experiment included in Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology (TIEE) Volume 4

    Keywords: simulationpredator-preypredation ecology

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    Demography from physical cemeteries, "virtual cemeteries," and census data
    Laboratory experiment included in Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology (TIEE) Volume 8

    Keywords: Resources @ ESA - TIEEdemographysurvivorshiplife tables

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    NEON data in undergraduate ecology courses: Data skills and learning opportunities
    Presentation made by Wendy Gram et al. as part of the "Bringing Research Data to the Ecology Classroom: Opportunities, Barriers, and Next Steps” Session at the Ecological Society of America...

    Keywords: Ecological Society of AmericaNEONNational Ecological Observatory Network

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    Evolution in Darwin's Finches: Using Darwin's Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection postulates to evaluate evidence of evolution
    Students evaluate evidence for evolution of Darwin's finches using authentic research data sets collected by Peter and Rosemary Grant.
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    What do trees know about Rain? Adapted for an online, non-majors botany course
    Minor modifications were made to this Data Nugget in order to use it in a fully online version of the introductory, non-majors botany course, Plants and People.
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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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    Claymander Field Experiment
    This activity addresses how predation may affect the frequency of two color morphs in a population. Students collect and analyze data from clay salamander models ('claymanders') to determine...

    Keywords: Field researchpredation ecologysalamanderAudience level - Introductory UG - majorsAudience level - Advanced UG

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    What Do Trees Know About Rain?
    The data nugget was introduced to a freshman General Biology lecture class as a culminating activity for the chapter entitled "Photosynthesis". Students worked independently and collaboratively...

    Keywords: General Biology

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    Gene Expression in Stem Cells
    The module served as in introduction to the Gene Expression unit. It was implemented in two phases, a pre-class activity and an in-class activity to introduce chapter concepts and reinforce...

    Keywords: small group activitypre-class activityGeneral Biology

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    Decoding, Critiquing, and Creating a Graph from the Ground Up
    Students decipher a published graph with little supplemental information and are given more details in pieces before producing a new graph that displays the data more effectively and is easier to...

    Keywords: EvolutionExcelgraphingBar GraphsbiomimicryScientific ProcessStatistics and MathMicrosoft Excel

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    An Introduction to Red Backed Salamander Ecology
    A summary of literature on red backed salamander ecology and life history compiled by Biology students at Susquehanna University

    Keywords: natural historypopulation ecologysalamander

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    Mimicry in a Diverse Community of Arthropods
    Module exploring how researchers exposed arthropod mimics that use a golden patch to warn of unpalatability to predators with different prey preferences to determine how effective their warnings were.

    Keywords: EvolutionbiomimicryScientific ProcessStatistics and Math

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    Finch Evolution Collection
    Over the past four decades, biologists Rosemary and Peter Grant have documented the evolution of the famous Galápagos finches

    Keywords: EvolutionResources @ HHMI - BioInteractive

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    Natural Selection and Galápagos Finches
    A worksheet and accompanying data set that guides students through making and interpreting frequency distributions, selection differentials, and fitness functions.

    Keywords: EvolutionResources @ HHMI - BioInteractive

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    Spreadsheet Tutorial 1: Adapted to Anatomy and Physiology
    Adapted the examples to Anatomy and Physiology relevant topics and implemented in BIO165L Anatomy and Physiology I Laboratory for non-majors.

    Keywords: Resources @ HHMI - BioInteractivesummary statisticsScientific ProcessScientific Methodology

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    Spreadsheet Data Analysis Terms and Shortened Tutorial 4
    Introductory students are asked to learn terms for descriptive statistics and complete a matching exercise. Tutorial 4 was shorted to just the full calculations of t values.

    Keywords: Scientific ProcessStatistics and MathScientific Methodology

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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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    Maternal transmission of microbiome
    Understanding the cascading effects of the transfer of maternal microbiome during a vaginal birth (vs. a c-section) to the well-being of a newborn.

    Keywords: microbiomehuman reproduction

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