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    Evolution
    This video explores the way evolution happens via natural selection in the context of the microbial world. Viruses and bacteria are discussed. We will see how evolution can be simulated in a...
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    Beanbag Toss (Grades 6-8)
    The classroom lesson presents students with the task of developing a fair--yet challenging--beanbag toss game.
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    Cell Collective
    Session presentation on an easy-to-use software, that makes this computational modeling approach accessible to any student and instructor
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    Developing hands-on activities linking plankton and computational thinking
    Poster on computational thinking as a method to help address complex problems, create systems, and understand behaviors presented at the 2018 QUBES/BioQUEST Summer Workshop
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    Circle Train Math Modeling Task
    This math modeling task is appropriate for high school Precalculus students. The students use their knowledge of transformations of trigonometric functions to create models for horizontal and...
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    Circle Train Problem TCM 2018_Hernandez.pdf - Google Drive
    In this math modeling lesson, students build mathematical models for the horizontal and vertical position of a train moving along a circular track. The math topics includes transformations of...
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    Painting turtles: an introduction to species distribution modeling in R
    This module uses R software to introduce students to the process of accessing databases and building species distribution models based on occurrence records.
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    Environment-Richness Relationships in Ephemeral and Permanent Wetlands: Guided Inquiry with Graph Interpretation (Abstract) | TIEE
    An introduction to linear models using plant and animal richness-environment relationships in ephemeral ponds and permanent wetlands.
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    Diseasebots
    This module explores the effects of host density on contact rates and transmission of pathogens or mutualist symbionts using a hands-on simulation, a computer agent-based model in NetLogo, and an...
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    Environmental Drivers of Ecosystem Carbon Fluxes from Minutes to Years
    Students build on fundamental concepts of ecosystem production and carbon cycling, combining this knowledge with open long-term data from ecological and meteorological networks to uncover the...
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    Have fish assemblages recovered from the legacy of acid rain?
    This module provides a framework for upper-level ecology students to learn about limiting factors for stream fish diversity, using data from Shenandoah National Park and gaining skills in...
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    Global Temperature Change in the 21st Century (Abstract) | TIEE
    Module for practice included in Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology (TIEE) Volume 7
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    Data Nugget- City Parks and Texas A&M University-Kingsville Camera Trap Assignment
    The Data Nugget- City Parks module was used in a sophomore-junior level undergraduate wildlife management techniques course (with lab) in Fall 2017. Modifications were made to the original Data...
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    What do trees know about Rain? Adapted for an online, non-majors botany course
    Minor modifications were made to this Data Nugget in order to use it in a fully online version of the introductory, non-majors botany course, Plants and People.
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    Claymander Field Experiment
    This activity addresses how predation may affect the frequency of two color morphs in a population. Students collect and analyze data from clay salamander models ('claymanders') to determine...
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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
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    Populus: Simulations of Population Biology
    Link to Populus Software
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    Modeling: A Primer - The crafty art of making, exploring, extending, transforming, tweaking, bending, disassembling, questioning, and breaking models
    Explore how to use, analyze, and criticize some important and historically influential models in biology in this text only module.
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    Distributed creation, community guidance, and OER development: current models and emerging practices
    Presented at the BioQUEST 2016 Summer Workshop
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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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