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Research And Creative Activity, July 1, 2019-June 30, 2020: Major Sponsored Programs And Faculty Accomplishments In Research And Creative Activity, University Of Nebraska-Lincoln, Office Of Research And Economic Development, University Of Nebraska–Lincoln

Office of Research and Economic Development: Publications

Foreword by Bob Wilhelm, Vice Chancellor for Research and Economic Development:

This booklet highlights successes in research, scholarship and creative activity by University of Nebraska–Lincoln faculty during the fiscal year running July 1, 2019, to June 30, 2020.

It lists investigators, project titles and funding sources on major grants and sponsored awards received during the year; fellowships and other recognitions and honors bestowed on our faculty; books published by faculty; performances, exhibitions and other creative activity; and patents and licensing agreements issued. Based on your feedback, the Office of Research and Economic Development expanded this publication to include peer-reviewed journal …

Culture Moderates The Relationship Between Family Obligation Values And The Outcomes Of Korean And European American College Students, Haein Oh, Toni Falbo, Kejin Lee

Department of Child, Youth, and Family Studies: Faculty Publications

Family obligation values have been described as an important element of collectivistic cultures that are related to the development of positive emotional well-being and motivation in high school and college students. The present study tested the hypothesis that culture moderates the relationship between family obligation values and the outcomes of Korean (n = 249) and European American (n = 251) college students. The results provided support for this hypothesis. Specifically, for Koreans, family obligation values were significantly and positively correlated with descriptions of parents as being more supportive of the self-determination of their children, which was found to mediate the …

Adult Perceptions Of The Relative Harm Of Tobacco Products And Subsequent T Tobacco Product Use: Longitudinal Findings From Waves 1 And 2 Of The Population Assessment Of Tobacco And Health (Path) Study, Tara Elton-Marshall, Pete Driezen, Geoffrey T. Fong, K. Michael Cummings, Alexander Persoskie, Olivia Wackowski, Kelvin Choi, Annette Kaufman, David Strong, Shannon Gravely, Kristie Kristie, Jonathan Kwan, Maansi Bansal-Travers, Mark Travers, Andrew Hyland

United States Food and Drug Administration: Publications

Objectives: To examine: (1) How perceptions of harm for seven non-cigarette tobacco products predict sub- sequent use; (2) How change in use is associated with changes in perceptions of product harm; (3) Whether sociodemographic variables moderate the association between perceptions and use.

Methods: Data are from the adult sample (18+) of the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study, a nationally representative longitudinal cohort survey conducted September 2013-December 2014 (Wave 1 (W1) n = 32,320) and October 2014-October 2015 (Wave 2 (W2) n = 28,362).

Results: Wave 1 users and non-users of e-cigarettes, filtered cigars, cigarillos, and pipes, who …

9th–10th Grade: English Level 2, Learning Packet #4 • Theme: Nature In America, Morgan Spanel, Aaron P. Johnson, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 2 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Exploring the world around you: The United States, "America the Beautiful," Practicing with adjectives

Day 2 • History of National Parks, Describing National Parks, Comparing National Parks

Day 3 • Biomes in the United States, Biomes of North America: outline map, Calculating the climates of biomes

Day 4 • Exploring the world around you: community walk, Identifying trees, Excerpts from A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold, 1949

Day 5 • Adjective practice, Journal: what would you preserve?

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6th–8th Grade: English Level 1, Learning Packet #4 • Theme: Time And Date [Students With Interrupted Formal Schooling], Jessica Millen, Brooke David, Lydiah Kananu Kiramba, Kara Mitchell Viesca, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 1 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Calendar and time review, Numbers 1-100, Numbers chart

Day 2 • Celebration vocabulary, Celebrations reading, Evelin's celebration

Day 3 • Happy New Year!, How do you celebrate the new year?

Day 4 • Ku Moo's holiday, What time is it?, How important is time in your country?

Day 5 • What do you celebrate?, Today is a holiday!

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6th–8th Grade: English Level 1, Learning Packet #2 • Theme: Migrations And Family [Students With Interrupted Formal Schooling], Jessica L. Millen, Brooke David, Lydiah Kananu Kiramba, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 1 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Migration and geography vocabulary, What are verbs?, Numbers 1-10, Introduce someone else

Day 2 • Family vocabulary, New vocabulary, Where are you from?

Day 3 • Vocabulary review, What are pronouns?, Family relationships reading, Write about your family, My family compare and contrast, Compare and contrast Ahmed's family, Compare and contrast your family

Day 4 • , Ku Moo's journey

Day 5 • Where are you from?

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9th–10th Grade: English Level 2, Learning Packet #5 • Theme: Full Of Energy, Morgan Spanel, Aaron P. Johnson, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 2 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Full of energy: what is energy?, Identifying types of energy, Word search

Day 2 • Transfer versus transform, Energy transformation, Draw your own Rube Goldberg machine

Day 3 • History of cars, Calculating gas mileage and speed, Design your own car

Day 4 • Raul's day, Raul's day: identifying energy types, Measuring your energy

Day 5 • Renewable vs. nonrenewable energy, Compare and contrast renewable and nonrenewable energy, Energy is all around us

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11th–12th Grade: English Level 2, Learning Packet #1 • Theme: U. S. Bill Of Rights, Trevin Wurm, Aaron P. Johnson, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 2 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • What is the Constitution?, Your rights in the United States, Science: water cycle

Day 2 • Your rights in the United States: journal, What is the Bill of Rights?, Bill of Rights chart, Condensation and precipitation

Day 3 • Your rights in the United States: protest, Using your vocabulary, Opinion writing, Clouds

Day 4 • Your rights in the United States: journal, Vocabulary review, States of water

Day 5 • Your rights in the United States: draw a picture, How does your picture show equality?, Solids, liquids, and gas examples

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11th–12th Grade: English Level 2, Learning Packet #3 • Theme: Susan B. Anthony, Trevin Wurm, Aaron P. Johnson, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 2 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Journal: in your opinion, why is it important to vote?, Who was Susan B. Anthony?, Science: climate and biome where you're from

Day 2 • Journal: what are some things you are good at?, Past and present tense, Past and present tense: play, Science: weather near the equator, Biomes

Day 3 • Journal: what was your favorite day of school?, Picture analysis, Science: climate far from the equator, Forests, Draw a picture

Day 4 • Journal: what is a time you convinced someone to do something?, The 19th Amendment, Science: clothes near the equator, Grasslands, Deserts

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11th–12th Grade: English Level 2, Learning Packet #4 • Theme: Martin Luther King, Jr., Trevin Wurm, Aaron P. Johnson, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 2 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Journal: who is an important person from your country's history?, Who was Martin Luther King, Jr.?, Science: Draw a picture of your favorite animal, Animal adaptations

Day 2 • Journal: who inspires you in your life?, Compound sentences, Science: Physical adaptations: camouflage

Day 3 • Journal: what is a dream you have for your life?, Analyzing a quote, Science: Butterflies from Wappingers Schools

Day 4 • Looking at a protest, The March on Washington, Science: Great white shark, elephants

Day 5 • Journal: what is an important event in the history of your country?, Drawing a protest, …

11th–12th Grade: English Level 2, Learning Packet #5 • Theme: Dolores Huerta, Trevin Wurm, Aaron P. Johnson, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 2 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Journal: think about a job you have or want to have, Who was Dolores Huerta?, Science: What are landforms?

Day 2 • Journal: what are some ways you can help the students in your school?. Strikes and boycotts, Compare and contrast, Science: Landforms, adjectives

Day 3 • Journal: how is Dolores Huerta similar and different from Susan B. Anthony?, Strike or boycott?, Is and are, Science: Landforms, adjectives

Day 4 • Journal: what is an example of a job many people have?, Strike and boycott: draw a picture, Science: identifying and describing landforms

Day 5 • Journal: …

9th–12th Grade: English Level 1, Learning Packet #3 • Theme: School, Mary Royers, Tricia Ramaekers, Claudia T. Yunes, Tricia Gray, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 1 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Reading daily practice

Roll your sight words

Prepositions introduction

School vocabulary

Vocabulary cards: prepositions

Similarities and differences

Drawing prepositions

Class vocabulary

Class schedule

My schedule

Class symbols

Facts and opinions about classrooms

Compare and contrast

Safe and unsafe

People at school

Job description

Matching vocabulary

Make a safety plan

Your turn!

Essential question

Vocabulary dictionary

Angles and polygons

Let's take a break!

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K–1st Grade: English Level 2, Learning Packet #1 • Theme: Shapes, Lacey M. Farmer, Tricia Gray, Kara Mitchell Viesca, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 2 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Choose a Buddy, Writing new words, Shapes memory, Make a pattern, Building sentences

Day 2 • Writing new words, Matching, Today's number (63)

Day 3 • Showing location, Exercise addition, Sorting shapes

Day 4 • Shapes walk, Journal writing, Today's number (23)

Day 5 • Searching for shapes, Making pictures from shapes, Write about a picture, Dictionary

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K–1st Grade: English Level 2, Learning Packet #2 • Theme: In The Garden, Lacey M. Farmer, Tricia Gray, Kara Mitchell Viesca, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 2 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Choose a Buddy, Writing new words, Garden memory, Make a pattern, Building sentences

Day 2 • Writing new words, More than one, Today's number (18)

Day 3 • Corn counting, Sequence writing, Read the story: The garden, Measuring worms, Draw a picture and write the length

Day 4 • Graphing, Journal writing, Today's number (55), Leaf rubbing

Day 5 • Leaf "painting," Can you find...?, Write about a picture, Dictionary

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K–1st Grade: English Level 2, Learning Packet #3 • Theme: Ocean, Lacey M. Farmer, Tricia Gray, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 2 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Choose a Buddy, Writing new words, Ocean matching, Make a pattern, Building sentences

Day 2 • Writing new words, Ocean yoga, Read the story: In the ocean, Today's number (42)

Day 3 • Fish matching, Sequence writing, Measuring sharks, Draw a picture and write the length

Day 4 • Addition to 20, Journal writing, Today's number (36)

Day 5 • Origami, Connect the dots, Write about the picture, Dictionary

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K–1st Grade: English Level 2, Learning Packet #4 • Theme: The Desert, Lacey M. Farmer, Tricia Gray, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 2 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Choose a Buddy, Writing new words, Desert memory, Make a pattern, Building sentences

Day 2 • Writing new words, Desert yoga, Read the story: In the desert, Today's number (34)

Day 3 • Cactus matching, Sequence writing, Measuring snakes, Draw a picture and write the length

Day 4 • Graphic, Journal writing, Today's number (28)

Day 5 • Addition to 20, Connect the dots, Write about the picture, Dictionary

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K–1st Grade: English Level 2, Learning Packet #5 • Theme: Hygiene, Lacey M. Farmer, Tricia Gray, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 2 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Choose a Buddy, Learning new words, Germs are everywhere, Washing our hands

Day 2 • Brush your teeth, Toothbrush subtraction, Toothbrush tracking, Start with today's new words

Day 3 • Start with today's new words, Healthy habits, Time, Today's number (41)

Day 4 • Exercise and sleep, Journal-favorite exercise, Tangrams, Telling time, Start with today's new words!, Exercise and sleep

Day 5 • Write a dream, What did you learn?, Tell others!

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2nd–3rd Grade: English Level 2, Learning Packet #1 • Theme: Where Do I Live? Part 1, Rachael Ballweg, Tricia Gray, Kara Mitchell Viesca, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 2 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Choose a Buddy, Vocabulary practice Day 1, Vocabulary trace, Draw your room, Add to 100

Day 2 • Vocabulary practice Day 2, Be a tour guide, Workout time, Meet Theo, Draw Theo's room, Subtract to 100

Day 3 • Practice your vocabulary words, Workout with your buddy, Read a letter from Theo, Subtract to 100

Day 4 • Play Go Fish, Workout with your buddy, Meet Theo, Compare and contrast, Add and subtract with word problems

Day 5 • Match the vocabulary, Draw your Buddy a room, "Here's your new room!," Make a word problem, My dictionary …

2nd–3rd Grade: English Level 2, Learning Packet #2 • Theme: Where Do I Live? Part 2, Rachael Ballweg, Tricia Gray, Kara Mitchell Viesca, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 2 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Choose a Buddy, Vocabulary practice Day 1, Vocabulary trace, Workout time, Drawn your neighborhood, Repeated addition, Journal writing

Day 2 • Vocabulary practice Day 2, Vocabulary write, Workout time, City dog, country dog, Repeated addition, Journal writing

Day 3 • Vocabulary practice Day 3, Word find, Workout time, City dog, country dog, Write a diary entry, Arrays and repeated addition, Journal writing

Day 4 • Vocabulary practice Day 4, Memory game, Workout time, Rex's neighborhood, Use text features, Repeated addition arrays, Journal writing

Day 5 • Vocabulary practice Day 5, Draw your neighborhood, Pictures to cut out, …

2nd–3rd Grade: English Level 2, Learning Packet #5 • Theme: Weather And Seasons, Rachael Ballweg, Tricia Gray, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 2 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Choose a Buddy, Vocabulary practice Day 1, Vocabulary trace, Weather mini book, What time is it?, Journal writing

Day 2 • Vocabulary practice Day 2, Workout time: garbage bag kite, The strongest wind: tornadoes, Journal writing

Day 3 • Vocabulary practice Day 3, Read the clues, Workout time: yoga, Blizzards!, How much time?, Journal writing

Day 4 • Vocabulary practice Day 4, Describe the picture, Timed workout, A big wave!: hurricanes, How much time?, Journal writing

Day 5 • Vocabulary practice Day 5, Make a weather report, When will it be over? (how much time has elapsed?), …

4th–5th Grade: English Level 2, Learning Packet #1 • Theme: Our Planet, Claudia T. Yunes, Tricia Gray, Kara Mitchell Viesca, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 2 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Packet #1 Outline: Our Planet (activity, content area)

Choose a Buddy

Reading daily practice

Roll your sight words #1

Vocabulary

Vocabulary cards: Earth

Our planet

Fill in the blanks

Vocabulary matching

My report

Math daily practice

Numbers in word form and expanded form

Math facts about Earth

Where do I come from?

Let's move!

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4th–5th Grade: English Level 2, Learning Packet #2 • Theme: Habitats, Claudia T. Yunes, Tricia Gray, Kara Mitchell Viesca, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 2 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Packet #2 outline: habitats

Choose a Buddy

Reading daily practice

Roll your sight words #2

Vocabulary cards: habitats

Habitats

Write and draw

Facts and opinions about habitats

Compound words

Vocabulary cut and paste

Writing a poem: acrostic

Math daily practice

Coordinate habitat

Goods from habitats

Lunchtime goods and services

Let's take a break!

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4th–5th Grade: English Level 2, Learning Packet #3 • Theme: Deserts, Claudia Yunes, Tricia Gray, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 2 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Packet #3 outline: deserts

Choose a Buddy

Reading daily practice

Desert vocabulary

Desert vocabulary cards

Deserts

Desert notes

Memory game: vocabulary packets 1-3

Drawing my sentences

Writing a poem: sensory poem

Creative writing: lost in the desert

Math unit conversions

Desert facts conversions

Importing and exporting

What does your country export and import?

Desert diorama

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3rd–5th Grade: English Level 1, Learning Packet #2 • Theme: Body, Heredity, And Traits, Sarah E. Ansari, Lydiah Kananu Kiramba, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 1 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Choose a Buddy, My body, Matching game, My self portrait, Our bodies

Day 2 • Heredity by Aliyah, Learned traits, Family traits interview, Graph: family traits, Get up and move!

Day 3 • Compare and contrast: family traits, Family traits writing, Family traits fractions, Get up and move!

Day 4 • I am a poem by ___, My traits, Get up and move!

Day 5 • My dictionary, Word search, Crossword puzzle, My week

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4th–5th Grade: English Level 2, Learning Packet #5 • Theme: Rainforests, Claudia T. Yunes, Tricia Gray, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 2 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Activities

Choose a Buddy

Packet #5 outline: rainforests

Sorting sight words

Sorting sight words match

Parts of a plant vocabulary

Read, label, and write

Life cycle of an apple tree

Sequence of a plant life cycle

Rainforest vocabulary

Rainforests

Rainforest vocabulary cards

Layers of the rainforest

My rainforest habitat

Rainforest report

Spelling my words

The Jaguar and the Mouse (adapted from Aesop's fable)

Character's feelings

Feelings chart

Creative writing

Nouns, adjectives, and verbs

Decimals to fractions

Rainforest fraction facts

Learn to draw bats

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4th–5th Grade: English Level 2, Learning Packet #4 • Theme: Oceans, Claudia T. Yunes, Tricia Gray, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 2 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Packet #4 outline: oceans

Choose a Buddy

Sight word phrases 1-minute race

Ocean vocabulary

Ocean vocabulary cards

Oceans

My informational text in 3-2-1

Texting my vocabulary words

Creative writing

Deserts

Compare and contrast

Rounding numbers

Rounding ocean numbers

Our planet's oceans

Paper plate fish

How to solve a crossword puzzle

My vocabulary crossword

Let's move!

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6th–8th Grade: English Level 2, Learning Packet #1 • Theme: Traveling To Mexico, Ronnie Grace, Aaron P. Johnson, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 2 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Traveling to Mexico!, Vocabulary you need to know, Where in the world are we?, Mexico's flag, Mexico's language, Pack your suitcase!, Mexico's climate, What do you know? What do you want to learn?, Let's go to Mexico!

Day 2 • Vocab review, Weather in Mexico, Instagram post!, Mexico's geography (land), Geography questions, Math review

Day 3 • Vocab review, Math review, Soccer in Mexico, Your turn!, Sugar skull art

Day 4 • Vocab review, Chichén Itzá, Plants in Mexico, What is the same and what is different?, Money in Mexico

Day 5 • Vocab review, "Juego de …

6th–8th Grade: English Level 2, Learning Packet #3 • Theme: Australia, Ronnie Grace, Aaron P. Johnson, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 2 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Traveling to Australia!, Vocabulary you need to know, Where in the world are we?, Australia's flag, Pack your suitcase!, What do you know? What do you need to know?

Day 2 • Vocabulary review, Australia's geography, Geography questions, Math practice

Day 3 • Math practice, Rugby vs. football, Great Barrier Reef

Day 4 • Vocabulary review, Wildfires in Australia. Australian Outback

Day 5 • Vocab practice, What did you learn in Australia?, The Sydney Opera House, Goodbye, Australia!

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6th–8th Grade: English Level 2, Learning Packet #4 • Theme: Russia, Ronnie Grace, Aaron Johnson, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 2 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Traveling to Russia!, Vocabulary you need to know, Where in the world are we?, Now it's your turn!, Russia's flag, Pack your suitcase!, What do you know? What do you want to learn?

Day 2 • Vocabulary review, Time to write, Russia's climate, Questions!, Math practice

Day 3 • Vocabulary review, Time to write, Math practice, Let's write poetry!

Day 4 • Vocabulary review, White Night festival, Now it's your turn!, Russian money and way of life, Your turn!

Day 5 • Stargazing in Russia, Your turn!, Cathedrals in Russia, Your turn!, Postcard reflection, Goodbye, Russia!

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3rd–5th Grade: English Level 1, Learning Packet #4 • Theme: Hobbies, Sarah E. Ansari, Lydiah Kananu Kiramba, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 1 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Choose a Buddy, My hobbies, Matching game, My hobbies self portrait, My favorite hobby, Write about your hobbies

Day 2 • Science: force and motion, Hobbies interview, Graph: family hobbies

Day 3 • Science: force and motion, Energy, Get up and move!

Day 4 • Energy. Science: force and motion, Teach your buddy how to play your favorite sport or game, Get up and move: force and motion!

Day 5 • Word search, Crossword puzzle, Write about your hobbies, My dictionary, My week

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