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Teaching Quantitative Skills in a Lab Context: Getting Started in the Classroom
Some background on my teaching approach (which you may not agree with): A few years ago a young math teacher, Dan Meyers had several videos that went viral about math instruction. Be sure to google his work but also check out the critique of his work. Part of the his message was that we (curricula,…
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Teaching Quantitative Skills using the Floating Disk Catalase Lab: Intro
I find it remarkable how deeply the biology education community has embraced the call to increase quantitative skills in biology. This is certainly not an easy change to incorporate into our curricula and it is one that the community will be working on, tweaking and improving over time as our own instructional quantitative strategies…
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A Driftless Spring
I have a problem–a deep addiction to see and experience, first-hand, the rise of trout. This is particularly vexing for me because I live in a state that does not have a year round, stream-based wild trout population. To feed this need, I focus my attention on Colorado in the summers and Missouri during the…
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Flint Hills Beauty
More than forty years ago, under the species account for spotted bass, I came across the following: …..But, some of my own most satisfying hours of fishing have been spent in catching spotted bass and little long-eared sunfish from pools along the brooks that drain the open, untilled prairies of Chase County. Frank B. Cross,…
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GMAC is introduced to a CMAC
Friday night while eating downtown I got to thinking about my plans for Saturday. I knew I was going to be watching the KU game Sat. night and I knew that Lawrence’s forecast was for cool temperatures and rain on Saturday. I could always go to the office and work but on a whim I…
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Colorado Cutthroat Slam Redux
Every summer Randy and I try set aside 10 days to two weeks for camping and fishing in the high country of Southern Colorado. Occasionally, the schedules don’t quite work out and conflicts can arise. This summer just such a conflict came up in the middle of our planned trip. I ended up with a…
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Prairies at their best…and a challenge
Aldo saw things that others don’t: “Every July I watch eagerly a certain country graveyard that I pass in driving to and from my farm. It is time for a prairie birthday, and in one corner of this graveyard lives a surviving celebrant of that once important event. It is an ordinary graveyard, bordered by…
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Day Trippin’
Despite flirting with the Big River earlier this summer when I think about fishing in Southern Colorado, I think about backcountry small streams. If these streams are easy to get to then the “trout fishing” is likely to fall short of my expectations/dreams that I have formed through countless daydreams over the previous winter and…
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Temptation
The reports began trickling out of southern Colorado mid-June; reports of phenomenal hatches; the best salmon fly hatch in decades along with grey and green drakes. The Big River was playing the part of the temptress again. The Big River was on fire. Last year, most of southern Colorado was burning in the early summer.…
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Reprieve
Each of the my last 10 or so summers have included a trip to the Finger Lakes region in New York to spend some time with family. Mostly we just hang-out together but I also find some time to get out to some of the local creeks. By necessity, these times on the water are…
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