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How can you explain the change of biodiversity over short and long (geological) timescales?	Coevolution or not? Crossbills, squirrels and pinecones Life Is Just a Game: An Active Learning Activity to Teach Life History Evolution	show Develop an argument that there has been a change in global biodiversity over the last 100 years. Explain why there are multiple species of finches in the Galapagos.
What is biodiversity at the genetic, species and functional (niche) level within an area, a biome or on Earth?	"Got Algae?" A Sorting Game for Introducing the Weird and Wonderful Diversity of Algae Assessing Urban Biodiversity With the eBird Citizen Science Project: A Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) Module Biodiversity Show and Tell: An Accessible Activity to Encourage Students to Explore the Tree of Life Developing Data Literacy Skills and Connecting the Student Experience in the Classroom to the Community Through Biodiversity Projects Life Is Just a Game: An Active Learning Activity to Teach Life History Evolution Teaching Biodiversity with Museum Specimens in an Inquiry-Based Lab	show Create a morphological key to identify taxa. Use molecular biology techniques identify functional groups of organisms (e.g., soil, stream, human microbiome, ocean water). Conduct a biological inventory of a specific habitat. Develop and use a biotic index to show the quality of an environment. Predict and justify where you would find a specific species in a particular habitat.
What is the relationship between phenology and biodiversity?	Developing Data Literacy Skills and Connecting the Student Experience in the Classroom to the Community Through Biodiversity Projects Quantifying and Visualizing Campus Tree Phenology	show Collect data and create a phenophase representation for selected species. Predict the implications at the local and global scale for observed changes in phenology. Relate changes in phenology to local and/or global disturbances.