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    2016-Langtangen-Pedersen - Scaling of Differential Equations
    Nowadays, the greatest practical benefit of scaling is related to running numerical simulations, since scaling greatly simplifies the choice of values for the input data and makes the simulations...

    Keywords: scalingdimensionlesscontinuum mechanics

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    The Importance of an ORCID
    This lesson introduces students and instructors to the use of ORCIDs (Open Researcher and Contributor ID), and walks students through the process of registering for an ORCID. This module also helps...

    Keywords: ORCIDidentitysocial justicecourse-based research experiences (CUREs)AttributionBCEENETdigitizationRepresentationhidden figuresdata democratizationrestorative practice

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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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    Tag You're It: A Lesson Investigating Study Design and Survival Analysis on an American Shad Tagging Study
    In this lesson, students will learn about the various mark-recapture and tagging methods that are used in various scientific disciplines and the information they can gather. Key elements of...

    Keywords: survival analysisAmerican ShadCox Proportional Hazards ModelStudy Design

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    2017-Ole_Witt-Hansen-Examples Of Differential Equations In Physics
    This is an article from the author’s homepage. The work contains fundamental and basic background and derivation of the differential equation models for a number of phenomena.

    Keywords: projectileair resistancefree falldragharmonic oscillation

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    1994-Paul_Davis-Asking Good Questions about Differential Equations
    A general essay about the Rule of Three – numerical, algebraic, and graphical perspectives + modeling with one illustration about Irish population.

    Keywords: questionspopulationnumericalphysical contextgraphicalalgebraicIreland

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    2020-Ciaroshi-How_COVID-19_Spreads_MathModels
    On December 31, 2019, the Chinese city of Wuhan reported an outbreak of a novel coronavirus (COVID-19) that has since killed over 4,200 people. As of March 11, 2020, over 118,000 infections—have...

    Keywords: diseasecovidoutbreakWuhancoronoavirus

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    Population Demography in Swirl
    The students will learn to generate, test, and graphically represent basic hypotheses on data distributions using large datasets.

    Keywords: ecologyPopulation statisticslife history curves

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    1-086-MedicinalPill-ModelingScenario
    Administration of a medicinal pill in single and multiple doses is modeled.

    Keywords: medicinespillovercompartmentbloodstreamGIT-Track

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    5-023-FakingGause-ModelingScenario
    We use a fake or toy data set to permit discovery of the parameters in a two population protozoan model used to study paramecium and yeast competition in the 1930's studies of G. F. Gause in the...

    Keywords: competitionlogisticyeastGauseparameciumpoplulation

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    Piwi Matters
    This case focuses on understanding structure and function relationships in Piwi, a protein that is critical for germline stem cell function and development of eggs in the fruit fly ovary.

    Keywords: Stem cellsmolecular visualization and analysis3D protein structure /function analysisPiwiPDBMolecular Case Study

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    Morphological, Anatomical and Molecular Analysis of Plant Phylogeny and Diversity
    In this lab, students perform phylogenetic analyses on morphological, anatomical and molecular data, and compare.

    Keywords: morphologyphylogenylaboratoryplantsmolecular analysisstele architecture

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    Food Chain Dynamics In A Simple Ecosystem
    In this lab, students will work with a simple algae/brine shrimp environment to learn about food chains and population dynamics.

    Keywords: ecologyecosystemsfood chainalgae

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    Phylogeny of Land Plants
    In this lab, students review the characteristics of the major land plant lineages. Then they perform phylogenetic analyses based on morphological characters.

    Keywords: morphologyphylogenylaboratoryplantsmolecular analysis

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    Tools of Seeing
    This video really focuses on having a sense of scale, a Number Sense skill. We talk to astronomers, biologists, and geologists about how they use tools to enhance their sight and how this allows...

    Keywords: videosnumber sensescaleunit conversionsScience Forwardorders of magnitude

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    Passion-Driven Statistics as a Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE)
    Session presentation on passion-driven, project-based experience in statistics at the 2018 QUBES/BioQUEST Summer Workshop

    Keywords: statisticsproject based learningCURE

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    Food Chain Dynamics In A Simple Ecosystem
    In this lab, students will work with a simple algae/brine shrimp environment to learn about food chains and population dynamics. It was implemented with limited alteration for an Introductory...

    Keywords: ecologyecosystemsfood chain

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    Food Chain Dynamics In A Simple Ecosystem
    In this lab, students will construct simple experiments with algae and brine shrimp to learn about food chains and population dynamics.

    Keywords: ecologyecosystemsfood chainalgaebrine shrimp

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    Demography from physical cemeteries, "virtual cemeteries," and census data
    Laboratory experiment included in Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology (TIEE) Volume 8. Learning objective: Students will learn how to create life tables and survivorship curves using data...

    Keywords: Resources @ ESA - TIEEdemographysurvivorshippopulation ecologylife tableslab activity

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    The Insect Predation Game: Evolving Prey Defenses and Predator Responses
    Laboratory experiment included in Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology (TIEE) Volume 4

    Keywords: simulationpredator-preypredation ecology

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