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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">From: Amy Ellwein
<amy@RMBL.ORG><br>
To: "ECOLOG-L-request@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU"
<ECOLOG-L-request@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU><br>
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 10:41:45 -0500<br>
Subject: Digital RMBL seeking collaborators<br><br>
Are you looking for activities that help your students learn ecological
content and how to work with real data? The Rocky Mountain Biological
Laboratory, with funding from NSF, has created Digital RMBL
(<a href="http://digitalrmbl.com">digitalrmbl.com</a>). Digital RMBL
contains four inquiry-based modules that join a major concept, a RMBL
data set, and an important set of inquiry skills with teaching
strategies. Digital RMBL also includes lots of rich contextual pages for
students to explore. We are seeking collaborators to try out the
Digital RMBL resources in their undergraduate courses and provide
feedback. <br><br>
Digital RMBL Modules:<br><br>
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<li><b>Biology of Climate Change</b> presents long-term weather and
phenology observations collected by resident hermit billy barr, a PNAS
paper by David Inouye, and asks students to use the updated data sets to
evaluate if the conclusions made still hold one decade later.
<li><b>Pollination Biology</b> introduces students to the wide variety of
pollination research at RMBL, while building skills in reading primary
scientific literature.
<li><b>Ecology of Fear </b>provides a thorough examination of the
experimental designs of non-consumptive species interactions in two RMBL
case studies, followed by an opportunity to design and conduct an
experiment in animal behavior.
<li><b>Explore RMBL Data </b>encourages students to ask and answer new
questions from existing data. This module features data from a
long-term sub-alpine meadow warming experiment conducted by John Harte.
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Please check out Digital RMBL and contact us if you are interested in
learning more about this opportunity to collaborate.<br><br>
Amy Ellwein, PhD<br>
Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory<br>
<a href="http://www.rmbl.org/">http://www.rmbl.org/</a><br>
<a href="http://digitalrmbl.com">digitalrmbl.com</a><br>
amy AT rmbl DOT org<br>
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