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Lab 4: Broader Significance and Real-World Applications
06 Mar 2012 | | 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 groups, you will (1) address a series of questions about your team's approach to your particular...
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Two steps forward: Interpreting results reported with scientific figures
06 Mar 2012 | | 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 independent variable, understand treatments, interpret visual presentation of variation and draw and...
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Lab 1: Plant Responses to Burn Season at Konza Prairie
06 Mar 2012 | | 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 graphical representations of the data to evaluate the central question of the lab (stated below) and a...
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Experimental Design
06 Mar 2012 | | 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 the data, and promote the students' recognition that there is often more than one possible way to...
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Listen! Do you smell something? Signal Detection Theory in Biology
06 Mar 2012 | | 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 photon? How does a doctor detect the presence of a tumor? How does a cell detect the presence of...
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Animal Physiology: Size and Surface Area in Animal Physiology
06 Mar 2012 | | 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 c) see how the relationship between surface area and its volume is fundamental to the operation...
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Cisplatin: Observation and Serendipity
06 Mar 2012 | | 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 effect of an electric field on bacterial growth. They are given initial observations from the...
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Osmosis and the Representation of Data
06 Mar 2012 | | Contributor(s):: Stephanie Gardner
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Prairie Module Overview of Weekly Writing Assignments
23 Feb 2012 | | 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 data on restored prairie parcels with different season-of-burn treatments (Week 2), analyze that data...