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    2010-Kijek-Kijek-Modelling of Innovation Diffusion
    This paper offers a first order differential equation model for innovation diffusion, solves it, and offers qualitative analysis as well as approaches to estimating parameters with some data on...

    Keywords: Bass modelinnovation diffusionLogistic modeldynamic model

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    2006-Juska-Gedminiene-Ivanec-Growth of Microbial Populations-Mathematical Modeling-Laboratory Exercises-Model-Based Data Analysis
    The aim is to teach the students to use a fresh approach to the problems they are familiar with, to come up with an articulate verbal model after a mental effort, to express it in rigorous...

    Keywords: population growth ratelogistic equationVerhulst equationgeneration timelag time

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    3-103-PullBackCars-ModelingScenario
    This activity offers analysis of a toy pull-back car: solution of a differential equation from model; data collection and parameter estimation; and adapting the model to predict maximum speed and...

    Keywords: modelingdynamicshands-ontoypull-back carpullback

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    4-023-MysteryCircuit-ModelingScenario
    Students to build a system of differential equations which model a circuit. We give each student a unique input voltage frequency parameter and ask for system response (gain) to that input as a...

    Keywords: filterscircuitRLC circuitKirchhoffvoltagegaindriver

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    1-006-Financing-ModelingScenario
    We describe two situations, one in which we are saving for a purpose and one in which we are borrowing for a purpose. In the first case we ask for discrete and continuous model of the situation...

    Keywords: financesavingsloaninterest ratepayment

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    Happy Blue Baby: MCQs for large classes
    Multiple choice questions for the Happy Blue Baby case study pre-work

    Keywords: mutationHemoglobinmolecular visualization and analysisPDBMolecular Case Study

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    Climate-Induced Shifts in California Butterflies
    A module in which students generate and test hypotheses about butterfly species’ response to climate change in the Central Valley and Sierra Nevada Mountains of northern California using publicly...

    Keywords: linear regressionScatter Plotsclimate changephenologyhypothesis formulationmountainsCaliforniapublic dataCODAP

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    Math and Stats in the Biology Classroom with HHMI BioInteractive
    Conquer basic math and statistics used in biology while exploring classroom-ready resources. Concepts include central tendency and variation, spreadsheet skills, graphing, and data analysis with...

    Keywords: HHMI BioInteractive

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    DataCamp
    DataCamp: The Easiest Way to Learn Data Science Online

    Keywords: statisticsRcurriculumdata visualizationdata scienceonline learningcoursemachine learningpythonlab protocol

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    Dendroclimatology
    Dendroclimatologists can reconstruct climate records further into the past than written records, by examining tree rings. Students "reverse-engineer" this process by considering growth rates of a...

    Keywords: linear regressiongraphingdata visualizationstandardizationclimatetree ringsdendrochronology

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    Cookbook for R
    The goal of the cookbook is to provide solutions to common tasks and problems in analyzing data.

    Keywords: Rdata analysisdata manipulationdata

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    Plants by the Numbers
    Session presentation on quantitative botanical activities at the 2018 QUBES/BioQUEST Summer Workshop

    Keywords: Simulationsplantsfmnquantitative botanicsflipped labshypothesis driven laboratoriesSummer Workshop 2018

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    Visualization: Quantitative reasoning via image analysis, networks, topology, generative models, and 3D rendering
    Resource from the 2015 BioQUEST Summer Workshop
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    Spreadsheet Tutorial 5: Histogram
    Generate a histogram using a variety of methods.

    Keywords: Resources @ HHMI - BioInteractiveScientific ProcessStatistics and MathScientific MethodologyHigh School

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    Spreadsheet Tutorial 4: t-Test
    Calculate t-values and perform t-tests using built-in functions.

    Keywords: Resources @ HHMI - BioInteractiveScientific ProcessStatistics and MathScientific Methodology

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    Designing undergraduate biology curricula to teach skills and knowledge for data-intensive environmental research
    Poster presented at Ecological Society of America Annual Conference 2017.

    Keywords: data literacy

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    A Classroom Intervention to Reduce Confirmation Bias
    STEM students are often unable to recognize cognitive bias in their own disciplines, and simply describing cognitive bias to students has shown to be insufficient to improve critical thinking....

    Keywords: biasprocess of sciencemetacognitionConfirmation BiasCognitive Bias

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    Defining Life: Exploring Creativity, Scientific Discovery, and Biology Core Concepts in a Disciplinary First-Year Seminar
    This unit, Defining Life, engages students in thinking like scientists, applying creativity to science, and learning biology core concepts as they explore the defining characteristics of life. This...

    Keywords: Evolutionbiologycellprocess of science

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    Science of Sorting
    Children possess an innate curiosity about the natural world. This Discovery Trunk explores the topic of sorting, or classification, in the study of life science.

    Keywords: species interactionsphylogenyscience educationPropertytaxonomyindividual traitsLife ScienceSortOrganizationReproductionclassifycharacteriesticlivingnonlivingobjectsadvantagedichotomous keyliving systemsoffspringphysical traitbehavioral traitcladecladogramtaxonomistnatural worldkingdomsbinomial nominclatureone class periodgradesK-8K-8

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    Targeting Misconceptions in the Central Dogma by Examining Viral Infection
    Understanding the central dogma and how changes in gene expression can impact cell function requires integration of several topics in molecular biology. Students often do not make the necessary...

    Keywords: datatranscriptionvirustranslationprotein functionmembrane transportPredictions

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