Survey of basic understanding of statistics, experimental design, and cellular components

18 Oct 2012 | External Link | Contributor(s): Ed Bartlett

This is an assessment of statistics, experimental design, and cellular components that has been used pre and post course for a cell biology class consisting mainly of biomedical and chemical …

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Enhancing Experimental Design: Minimizing Confounding Factors

17 Oct 2012 | Lesson Plans | Contributor(s): Allison Sieving

Developed By: Allison Sieving and Marcia Pool Biological Question: The content of this module focuses upon refinement of the experimental design process and thus can be applied to a wide variety …

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Lab 4: Broader Significance and Real-World Applications

06 Mar 2012 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Nancy Emery

Today's lab activity aims to integrate the knowledge you have acquired over the past three weeks with "real world" challenges and constraints that may accompany restoration decisions. Working in …

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Two steps forward: Interpreting results reported with scientific figures

06 Mar 2012 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Nancy Pelaez, Harmony Dalgleish

The focus of the module is on interpreting figures from the scientific literature. To do this, students must differentiate between categorical and continuous variables, identify the dependent and …

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Animal Physiology: Size and Surface Area in Animal Physiology

06 Mar 2012 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Nancy Pelaez, Harmony Dalgleish

The major goals of the module are for students to a) be exposed to the overwhelming importance of size in an animal's life; b) understand the relationships between surface area, volume, and size; and …

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Cisplatin: Observation and Serendipity

06 Mar 2012 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): James Forney

This lesson is part of a sophomore level biochemistry course to introduce the concepts of experimental design. Students are provided with the description of an experiment designed to examine the …

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Experimental Design

06 Mar 2012 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Ann Rundell, Kate Stuart

This module is intended to refresh or introduce students to aspects of experimental design, enhance their understanding that the experiment design should support appropriate statistical analysis of …

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Lab 1: Plant Responses to Burn Season at Konza Prairie

06 Mar 2012 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Nancy Emery

This lab uses data published in Towne and Kemp (2003) to investigate the effects of fire disturbance on plant populations and communities in the tallgrass prairie. You will create and interpret …

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Lab 2: Plant Responses to Burn Season at Prophetstown State Park

06 Mar 2012 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Nancy Emery

In this lab we will collect our own data on plant community composition in a recently restored tallgrass prairie site at Prophetstown State Park. We aim to compare the communities of two parcels that …

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Lab 3: Data Analysis and Interpretation

06 Mar 2012 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Nancy Emery

In your writing assignment for Week 1 you generated at least one hypothesis and prediction for each of these questions. The writing assignment for Week 2 asked you to state the comparisons that are …

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Listen! Do you smell something? Signal Detection Theory in Biology

06 Mar 2012 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Ed Bartlett

How do organisms detect changes in their environment, and how do scientists and their instruments detect changes in experimental conditions, such as: How does a photoreceptor detect the presence of a …

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Osmosis and the Representation of Data

06 Mar 2012 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Stephanie Gardner

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Prairie Module Overview of Weekly Writing Assignments

23 Feb 2012 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Nancy Emery

As you progress through the Prairie Module over the next four weeks, you will be introduced to fire disturbance and its known effects on prairie plant populations (Week 1), collect your own field …

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Little Niche on the Prairie

22 Feb 2012 | Series | Contributor(s): Nancy Emery

Students learn to create and analyze graphs associated with a published ecological experiment and the different ways of illustrating sources of variation in a complex data set to effectively present …

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