David Henry Hwang's play, "Yellow Face", provides his perspective on theatre. The play is available for viewing for free on YouTube. This assignment are short essay questions created to allow the students to think deeply on Hwang's purpose for writing this play and the importance it holds in theatre.

This resource is a video abstract of a research paper created by Research Square on behalf of its authors. It provides a synopsis that's easy to understand, and can be used to introduce the topics it covers to students, researchers, and the general public. The video's transcript is also provided in full, with a portion provided below for preview:

"The first human spaceflight to Mars is expected to take place sometime within the next decade, and its success will be highly dependent on the health of its crew. The human microbiome, or the community of microorganisms inhabiting the body, has critical effects on human health, but how the journey to another planet will affect it has yet to be determined. During a space mission, the crew will experience microgravity, increased cosmic radiation, isolation, food limitations, and other stressors. While data from simulations and the International Space Station suggest that the human microbiome may be resilient to these conditions, frequent monitoring during the spaceflight will still be necessary to safeguard crew health. Microbiome perturbations will need to be actively prevented, and the establishment of a computer-based warning system will allow microbe-related disease to be quickly detected..."

The rest of the transcript, along with a link to the research itself, is available on the resource itself.

Book List Topics:Identity MattersAmerican Indian VoicesVoices Around the WorldInclusive VoicesBoundary BreakersExpanding the Narrative

Preliminary Research Exhibition

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This exhibition presents the preliminary major research project ideas of OCAD University’s Inclusive Design 2019/2021 cohort. These projects explore a spectrum of themes, ranging from healthcare, to sensory experiences, to storytelling and services for cultural communities, to neurodiversity, and finally, to design practices and processes themselves.

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This resource is a video abstract of a research paper created by Research Square on behalf of its authors. It provides a synopsis that's easy to understand, and can be used to introduce the topics it covers to students, researchers, and the general public. The video's transcript is also provided in full, with a portion provided below for preview:

"Soil and sediment microorganisms are remarkably diverse and are critical for ecosystem health. However, they are underrepresented in public databases, and assembling new metaproteomic datasets is challenging, which makes it difficult to characterize the microorganisms in specific soil samples. To increase the outputs of soil metaproteomic studies, a recent study compared various database construction strategies. Search strategies using either sample-specific metagenomic databases or public databases produced comparable peptide-spectrum matches for a floodplain soil core. However, a two-step cascaded search combining both types of databases led to greater peptide-spectrum matching. The combination strategy also improved functional annotation of the peptides, and the resulting metaproteome (MetaP) annotations correlated well with the metagenome (MetaG) annotations..."

The rest of the transcript, along with a link to the research itself, is available on the resource itself.

This activity is a field investigation or bio-blitz where students are collecting as many different types of insects as they can. Back in the lab, they will record their findings, sort and classify the insects found. This will lead into a class discussion on biodiversity and the importance of insects and their benefits all living things.

On April 18, 2023, #GoOpen held a public webinar titled, "Integrating OER into Instructional Initiatives."  The session featured Rebecca Henderson, Curriculum Services Supervisor, Westmoreland Intermediate Unit, PA; Tracy Rains, Virtual Learning Specialist, Appalachia Intermediate Unit 8, PA; and, Kelly Hammond, OER and Open Pedagogy Adjunct, CUNY School of Professional Studies; and facilitator, Amee Evans Godwin of ISKME and the #GoOpen National Network.  

An introductory module to autism spectrum disorders (ASD), and a discussion of inclusivity and diversity. Multiple videos, books and articles are included.

This resource was created by Allison Kittinger, a library science master’s student at UNC-Chapel Hill, and Jennifer Solomon, an adjunct instructor at UNC-Chapel Hill. Allison and Jennifer are passionate about fostering bibliodiversity in scholarly communications and want to increase awareness of bibliodiversity among library science graduate students and early-career scholarly communications librarians. After engaging with this resource, learners will: gain an understanding of bibliodiversity, its urgency, and its importance; be able to articulate the concept of bibliodiversity in their own words/apply it in their work; and gain additional tools to apply DEI concepts in scholarly communications.

More background is available at https://lisoer.wordpress.ncsu.edu/2021/04/13/bibliodiversity-and-oer-a-student-perspective/.

This class uses K-12 classroom experiences, along with student-centered classroom activities and student-led classes, to explore issues in schools and education. Students in this course spend time each week observing pre-college math and science classes. Topics of study include design and implementation of curriculum, addressing the needs of a diversity of students, standards in math and science, student misconceptions, methods of instruction, the digital divide, teaching through different media, and student assessment.

Introduction to Sociology 2e adheres to the scope and sequence of a typical, one-semester introductory sociology course. It offers comprehensive coverage of core concepts, foundational scholars, and emerging theories, which are supported by a wealth of engaging learning materials. The textbook presents detailed section reviews with rich questions, discussions that help students apply their knowledge, and features that draw learners into the discipline in meaningful ways. The second edition retains the book’s conceptual organization, aligning to most courses, and has been significantly updated to reflect the latest research and provide examples most relevant to today’s students. In order to help instructors transition to the revised version, the 2e changes are described within the preface.

In this field lab students will investigate the biodiversity around their school. Students will perform a biodiversity count using transect line. The students will develop multiple hypotheses relating to biodiversity and propose additional procedures for studying, collecting and testing these questions.

This investigation is a field study where students compare the diversity of plants and insects in a naturally existing habitat to that of a human altered habitat.

This activity is a field investigation where students collect insects to analyze, observe, and classify

The Los Angeles and the Future of Mono Lake WebQuest leads students in a guided exploration of Mono Lake's extreme environment and asks them to consider the preservation of this environment in relation to the needs of humans.

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This portfolio is designed to promote diversity, equity, cultural awareness, and antiracism. With some adjustment, it can be used in any foreign language classe. The portfolio starts with a list of learning outcomes, so students know what they need to learn and perform at the end of each lesson. Then, it guides students to set up personal goals. That gives them a chance to explore what they would like to learn that is more relevant to their needs and identities. Based on personal goals, students collect learning evidences such as things they learn on their own, materials they collect, and journals reflecting their learning process. At the end of each lesson, students reflect on how much they have acheived the learning outcomes and personal goals. The purpose of the portfolio is to give students a chance to address their own identities and cultural backgrounds in Japanese language learning; and to keep track of and be responsible for their learning process. 

In part one of this two-part lesson, students read a book about how students can be made to feel when they are different from others. Students then reflect on how it feels to be treated differently and create visual images of aspects of their identities to share in the next class.

In the second part of this two-part lesson, students share the drawings they completed during the last class on some of what makes them who they are. The class then discusses how to celebrate differences rather than making others feel embarrassed or bad for being unique in a variety of ways. 

In this jigsaw activity, students of intermediate-level French will divide into five groups to become experts on each of the five biodiversity questions featured on the Curiosphere website. They will proceed to explain their assigned aspect of the issue to a small group of students.

This course explores how we use story to articulate ethical norms. The syllabus consists of short fiction, novels, plays, feature films and some non-fiction. Major topics include leadership and authority, professionalism, the nature of ethical standards, social enterprise, and questions of gender, cultural and individual identity, and work / life balance. Materials vary from year to year, but past readings have included work by Robert Bolt, Michael Frayn, Timothy Mo, Wole Soyinka, H. D. Thoreau, and others; films have included Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Hotel Rwanda, The Descendants, Motorcycle Diaries, Three Kings, and others. Draws on various professions and national cultures, and is run as a series of moderated discussions, with students centrally engaged in the teaching process.