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    Modeling Crop Rotation with Discrete Mathematics
    The module develops discrete mathematics models that allow for creation of crop rotation schedules meeting a variety of needs.

    Keywords: modulesustainabilitydiscrete mathematicsagricultureResources @ DIMACSResources @ QUBES - Teaching & Referencescienceexperiment

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    Globally endangered sea turtles of the Palmyra Atoll National Wildlife Refuge: A Focus on Scientific Analysis
    Based on the sea turtle case, students will (1) work on a worksheet by analyzing existing survey data, (2) conduct a literature review of two relevant research, and (3) draft a proposal for a...

    Keywords: sea turtle conservationliterature reviewResearch methodsProposal writingPalmyra Atoll

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    5-030-LinNonHomoSystemSol-TechniqueNarrative
    We offer strategies for solving linear systems of nonhomogeneous differential equations using a conjectured solution strategy for a system of constant coefficient, linear, n

    Keywords: strategiesdiscovery learningeigenvectorseigenvalue

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    Spotting Interactions: Spotted Salamanders, Beneficial Buffers, and Helpful Hydroperiods
    The purpose of this lesson is to help us better understand how we are able to conserve wetland-dependent wildlife. We will be exploring, manipulating, and analyzing data in R using a Poisson...

    Keywords: Poisson Distributionsalamandersvernal pools

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    Carbon Sequestration and the Urban heat Island Effect
    An urban heat island is an urban or metropolitan area that is on average far warmer than the surrounding rural areas. In this lesson we will study the impact these warmer temperatures have on...

    Keywords: RStudiodecision treesurban ecologyCarbon sequestration of forests vegetationUrban heat island

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    Why Cells Change Weight: Demonstrating Linear Regression Through an Osmosis Experiment
    In this activity, students will perform an experiment utilizing dialysis tubing to create cellular models to demonstrate the linear relationship between cell weight and time in varying tonicities....

    Keywords: graphingqbccCellular and Molecular BiologyInterpret graphsConcepts in Statistics

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    R Subsetting Tutorial
    The students will practice manipulating data to add to or extract subsets of specific values, rows, columns, or subsets of data contained in existing data files.
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    Introducing Students to Data Science
    Presentation on data science at the 2019 BioQUEST & QUBES Summer Workshop

    Keywords: data science2019 QUBES/BioQUEST Summer Workshop

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    Innovative Teaching Exchange: Asking Questions in Probability Class
    This is an article in MAA's Innovative Teaching Exchange that describes strategies to get students past thoughtless number crunching, guessing, and intuition when it comes to solving probability...

    Keywords: Probabilitypedagogyteaching strategies

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    Quantitative Modules to Accompany General Biology Courses
    A collection of modules that were developed to accompany general biology courses and allow instructors to add quantitative examples in many of the topics in a standard GB sequence.

    Keywords: moduleintroductory biologymathmodulesprojectResources @ QUBES - Teaching & Reference

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    QUBES: Building a community to promote undergraduate quantitative biology education
    Poster on the QUBES project presented at the 2018 QUBES/BioQUEST Summer Workshop

    Keywords: QUBESfaculty mentoring networkscommunitySummer Workshop 2018

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    Geoscience Methods and Resources for K-5 Pre-Education Majors
    : Exploring Geoscience Methods was an excellent capstone experience for Elementary Education Majors. The class I used this module with was 24 students of various backgrounds and academic...

    Keywords: geneticsvideosQUBESecologyResources @ HHMI - BioInteractiveMathematical Biologycalculusjavaorganismal biologyquantitative biologybioinformaticsneurosciencegenomicscancerSecondaryyoutubemicrobiomeFaculty Mentoring NetworksalamanderCapture mark-recaptureAudience level - Introductory UG - majorsAudience level - Introductory UG - non-majorsecosystemsgenetic basis of diseasebiology of cellshuman reproductionfood chainIntroduction to Modelingrandom number generatorPost-secondaryLower DivisionPossible TasksModeling ProjectBuildCompareEvaluateexponential decayrecursionabsorptionelimination

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    2003-Rasmussen-Keynes-Lines of Eigenvectors and Solutions to Systems of Linear Differential Equations
    The purpose of this paper is to describe an instructional sequence where students invent a method for locating lines of eigenvectors and corresponding solutions to systems of two first order linear...

    Keywords: instructional designeigenvalueseigenvalue analysis

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    2014-Blomhøj-EtAl-Compartment models
    An overview of compartment models with many rich illustrations and much attention to various numerical methods in solutions of the resulting differential equations using Matlab. Also included is a...

    Keywords: concentrationkineticsphysiologycompartmentsalttankbalancereactionsminkbathtub

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    2014-Jeffrey_Chasnov-Lecture_Notes_on_Introduction_to_Differential_Equations
    The differential equations text is 128 pages and develops and motivates the theory of the material nicely, with links to YouTube lectures to assist.

    Keywords: differential equationsbiologytextbook

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    2021-G_Nagy-Ordinary_Differential_Equations
    This is an introduction to ordinary differential equations. We describe the main ideas to solve certain differential equations, like first order scalar equations, second order linear equations, and...

    Keywords: differential equationstextbook

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    6-004-VillageEpidemic-ModelingScenario
    Students are offered data from a plague epidemic that occurred in the middle of the seventeenth century in Eyam, a small English village. With only two assumptions offered to students they...

    Keywords: SIR modelsepidemicsusceptibleinfectiveremovedEyamEnglish village

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    1-097-SwimmingPool-ModelingScenario
    This project involves the dynamics of chlorine concentration during regular swimming pool maintenance cycles. Students will have the opportunity to use both analytic and numerical methods.

    Keywords: concentrationcchlorinenumerical errorswimming poolhorineerreor

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    3-050-CometOrbitalMechanics-ModelingScenario
    The broad goal of this activity is to use a basic numerical method to approximate the solution of an initial value problem. In this particular case, we will use Euler's method to help model the...

    Keywords: trajectorySpaceEuler's methodorbital mechanicscometorbit

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    6-002-EulerCromerPendulum-ModelingScenario
    This activity introduces students to the concept of numerical stability. While modeling a simple pendulum, students compare performance of the semi-implicit Euler-Cromer method with Euler's method...

    Keywords: pendulumsemi-implicit methodsEuler-Cromernumerical solvers

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