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    Continuous Growth Models
    This Excel worksheet compares user-input growth data with predictions under linear, exponential, and logistic models of growth. Introduces concepts of statistical analysis that can be additionally...

    Keywords: exponential growthlogistic growthcurve fittinglinear growthgrowth models

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    Two-Species Model
    These two Excel worksheets simulate the population growth of two interacting species. In isolation, each species grows logistically, but interaction effects between species may limit or enhance...

    Keywords: population growthcompetition modelsLotka-Volterra

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    Sample NetLogo Code of Bacterial Growth
    Each NetLogo file is a sequential version of the final bacterial growth model produced in the Bacterial Growth Tutorial. These are to be used as checks to one's understanding alongside the tutorial.
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    Leslie/Lefkovitch Matrix Models for Age or Stage-structured Populations
    This Excel workbook uses the Leslie matrix model for population projection of age-class structured populations, and also allows Lefkovitch matrix models for stage-class structured populations.

    Keywords: survivalpopulation ecologyfecundityLeslie matrixeigenvalueseigenvectorsLefkovitch matrixage-class structured populationsstage-class structured populationsreproductive value

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    RAT ATTACK! Population growth
    This module contains exercises focused on the use and interpretation of density independent and density dependent population growth models. Students build logistic and exponential growth models in...

    Keywords: modelingecologyExcelintroductory biologygraphingQuantitative reasoningdata visualizationinterdisciplinaryexponential growthlogistic growthdata managementInterpreting Graphspopulation modelingNIQBC2. Data and GraphsC4. mathematical modelsnonlinear models

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    Fitting Exponential and Logistic Growth Models to Bacterial Cell Count Data
    In this activity, students will model a noisy set of bacterial cell count data using both exponential and logistic growth models. For each model the students will plot the data (or a linear...

    Keywords: modelingdata analysislinear regressiongraphingExponentsoptimizationcalculusInterpreting GraphsFunctionsqbccCellular and Molecular BiologyChoosing modelsUnderstanding ratesConcepts in Statisticsmeasurementsmanipulating equationscreating graphsExponential and Logarithmic Functionsinterpreting tables

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    Navigating Bacterial Changes in Aging Organisms: Graphs, Patterns, and Models
    Aging is an incredibly important area of research, and recent biological advances implicate the intestines in aging pathologies. Given that the gut harbors an immense amount of an organism’s...

    Keywords: statisticsgraphingmathematics for life sciencesmathexponential growthPrecalculus

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    Quantifying Bacterial Growth in the Guts and Hemolymph of Fruit Flies: Mathematical Modeling and Data Interpolation/Extrapolation
    In this activity, students will analyze raw data obtained from an experiment that explores the effect of overexpressing the Ssk protein in order to strengthen the intestinal barrier and prevent...

    Keywords: graphingexponential growthlinear modelsqbccinterpolationConcepts in Statistics and Precalculus Understanding exponential rates and linear slopesExtrapolation

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    Evaluating Local Adaptation and Conservation with Life Tables
    This module contains a sequence of activities designed for an undergraduate ecology lesson on stage-structured population models or life tables that use published data. Two versions are provided:...

    Keywords: ecologypopulation modelmatrix modelsclimate changelife cyclessensitivity analysispopulation ecologylife tablestage-structured modelsnet reproductive rateconservation planning

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    Disease Spread Simulation with M&M's and Information on the wider SIMIODE community
    This is a Student Version of a Modeling Scenario from the community, SIMIODE - Systemic Initiative for Modeling Investigations and Opportunities with Differential Equations at www.simiode.org

    Keywords: resourcesdifferential equationsmodelingsimulationmoduledataepidemicsdiseasecommunityapplied mathematicsResources @ SIMIODEretinal surgeryinsect colonyLSDm&mparameter estimationin-class activityproject

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    Global Temperature Change in the 21st Century: An Introduction to Global Climate Models and Graphing in Excel (Adapted for Non-Majors)
    Students link human behavior in various climate change scenarios to predicted temperature outcomes at both local (their assigned Latitude) and global (Latitudinal trends) scales. This adaptation is...

    Keywords: ExcelResources @ ESA - TIEEecology labclimate changeenvironmental scienceglobal changehuman-environmental interactionsSimple Linear Regressionhuman impactsinclusive pedagogy-FMN

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    Modeling Two Species Interactions Educational Module
    This set of files comprises an educational module for use in college-level ecology courses. It focuses on exploring two species interactions (mutualism, competition, and predator-prey dynamics)...

    Keywords: ecologyspecies interactionsmathematical modeling

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    Uninhibited Growth of Cells
    In this activity, students will explore the concept of binary fission, generation time, and bacterial growth curves, with an emphasis on the log phase. Students will use semi-log graphs and linear...

    Keywords: graphingexponential growthMicrobiology Educationmicrobiologybacteriagrowth rateUndergraduate STEM educationCommunity College Educationqbccmanipulate equationsCellular and Molecular BiologyCreate graphsInterpret graphsbinary fissionsemi-log graphlinear graphgrowth curvecreating graphsExponential and Logarithmic Functions

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    Graphing bacterial growth rates: semi-log graphs v linear graphs
    In this activity, students will explore the concept of binary fission, generation time, and bacterial growth curves, with an emphasis on the log phase. Students will use semi-log graphs and linear...

    Keywords: graphingexponential growthMicrobiology Educationmicrobiologybacteriagrowth rateUndergraduate STEM educationCommunity College Educationqbccmanipulate equationsCellular and Molecular BiologyCreate graphsInterpret graphsbinary fissionsemi-log graphlinear graphgrowth curvecreating graphsExponential and Logarithmic Functions

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    Frayer model growth mindset
    A Frayer model worksheet for the concept of growth mindset.

    Keywords: growth mindsetFrayer model

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    Teaching Exponential and Logistic Growth in a Variety of Classroom and Laboratory Settings
    Experiment included in Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology (TIEE) Volume 9

    Keywords: Resources @ ESA - TIEEpopulation growth

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    Data-Driven Decision-Making: Antarctic Fisheries
    This is an entire module for a general education data science and ecology course. The module was originally designed as the fourth and final section of the course; the full course is openly...

    Keywords: population growthRStudiodata visualizationexponential growthlogistic growthR Markdownspatial dataocean sustainability4DEE FrameworkTraditional ecological knowledgecarrying capacityEcosystem Servicesmaximum sustainable yield

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    Growing Lung Carcinoma and Lung Fibroblast Cell Lines
    Basic information on how to grow Lung Carcinoma and Lung Fibroblast Cell Lines.

    Keywords: tipsCell Growthcell cultureA-549HFL-1

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    Hidden Markov Model
    Hidden Markov models are a set of mathematical tools that can be used to draw inferences about genomic and evolutionary processes.

    Keywords: hidden markov models

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    A Letter to a Young Scientist: Prompting Students To Reflect On And Recognize Their Own Growth As Scientists
    This activity is designed to prompt students to reflect on and recognize their own growth as scientists and, consequently, may help develop student self-efficacy and science identity.
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