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    Changes in Lake Ice: Ecosystem Response to Global Change
    Data Set included in included in Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology (TIEE) Volume 3

    Keywords: data analysisResources @ ESA - TIEEassessmentWorksheetlimnologyaquaticlake

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    Changes in Lake Ice: Ecosystem Response to Global Change
    Data Set included in included in Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology (TIEE) Volume 3

    Keywords: Resources @ ESA - TIEE

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    Robot vs. Disease: Using CellProfiler to model biomedical research in your classroom
    Resource from the 2015 BioQUEST Summer Workshop

    Keywords: image analysisCellProfilerfluorescence microscopymicroscopycellular analysis

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    Performing a Population Viability Analysis from Data Students Collect on a Local Plant
    Experiment included in Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology (TIEE) Volume 9

    Keywords: RResources @ ESA - TIEEmatrix model

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    Kinetics of a Highly Conserved Enzyme - Carbonic Anhydrase
    This module contains exercises designed to introduce students to graphical representation of biological data. Students will explore the fundamental principles of enzyme kinetics including...

    Keywords: Excelintroductory biologycell biologygraphingslopeQuantitative reasoningdata visualizationquantitative biologyinterdisciplaryquantitative skillscorrelationenzyme functionInterpreting GraphsMichaelis-Mentenenzyme kineticsEnzyme activityenzyme inhibitionLinear and nonlinear analysisNIQBC2. Data and GraphsC4. mathematical modelsenzyme-substrateNIQB Interdisciplinary Quantitative Reasoningcarbonic anhydrase

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    Cell Cycle and Mitosis
    This module introduces activities that allow students to walk through the cell cycle and mitotic cell division processes. As part of the activities, students learn about and apply knowledge of...

    Keywords: introductory biologyQuantitative reasoningInterdisciplinary STEMquantitative biologyinterdisciplinaryquantitative skillscell functioncell cyclemitosisCell DivisionMitotic Indexcalculating meanstumorNIQBC2. Data and GraphsC4. mathematical modelsC3. Statistical Analysisstandard errormitotic phaseinterphase

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    Spreading seeds: How can a better understanding of seed dispersal improve tropical forest restoration?
    Learn about seed dispersal by animals and how this ecological process can be harnessed to facilitate forest recovery through a forest restoration experiment in Costa Rica. Apply what you learn to a...

    Keywords: conservationRestorationtropical forestsbiodiversity lossSeed dispersal

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    Reflective Writing Tools: Building Skills and Habits of Thinking in Becoming a Scientist
    Reflective writing tools are intended to help students better connect current learning experiences to prior learning, engage the role of emotion in current and future learning, and assess learning...

    Keywords: STEM educationreflective writingMentorshipambiguityindependenceperseverance

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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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    5-026-Evictions-ModelingScenario
    In this project, students develop two SIS models to study eviction trends in a population of non-homeowner households using an actual eviction rate. Students can calculate solutions, sketch the...

    Keywords: carrying capacitycompartmentevictionhomeownerSIS modelhomelessness

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    Investigating the Drivers of Western Monarch Decline Using Partial Least Squares Regression
    In this lesson, students will explore the drivers of the western monarch butterfly decline. Students will compare the effects of climate factors and land use factors on the western monarch...

    Keywords: RStudiomultivariate analysisMonarch butterfliesPartial Least Squares Regression

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    2015-Dios-EtAl-How Engineers deal with Mathematics solving Differential Equations
    The students of fourth course, of the bachelor’s degree in Computer Sciences or Industrial Engineering at the University of Salamanca (Spain), they learn mathematics solving real problems with the...

    Keywords: assessmentengineering educationSimulink

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    2019-Zhu_EtAl-Partial_differential_equation_modeling_of_rumor_propagation
    This paper defines a spatial distance in online social networks by clustering and then proposes a partial differential equation model with a time delay.

    Keywords: social networksrumorpropogation

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    1-059-ContainerShapeFallingWater-ModelingScenario
    We examine many different physical situations to determine the time it takes a fixed volume of water to flow out of different shape containers through the same size exit hole at the bottom of the...

    Keywords: containersTorricelli's Lawshapedischarge coefficient

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    5-076-LanchesterLaws-ModelingScenario
    Lanchester's laws are used to calculate the relative strengths of military forces. The Lanchester equations are differential equations describing the time dependence of two armies' strengths A and...

    Keywords: Lanchester's lawssensitivity analysisanalysis

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    5-030-AirshedSulphur-ModelingScenario
    Temperature inversions and low wind speeds trap air pollutants in a mountain valley for a period of time. Gaseous sulfur compounds are a significant air pollution problem. We offer a model for...

    Keywords: sulphurpollutionairshedhydrogen sulfidesulfur dioxide

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    5-036-HalfCarVibration-ModelingScenario
    Vibration vehicle models provide an opportunity to integrate vehicle-based vibrations into a mechanical engineering vibrations course. The project is on a multiple-degree-of-freedom (MDOF)...

    Keywords: vibrationvehiclehalf-car modelfinite element analysisshock absorberssuspension

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    6-019-EnablingEpidemicExploration-ModelingScenario
    We became aware of several interesting possibilities for a modeling opportunity with data and we invited you to explore the several routes to parameter estimation in a SIR model with respect to the...

    Keywords: Akaike Information CriterionMichaelis-Mentenepidemicsaturationgradientleast sum of square errors

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    6-023-DroneHeadingHome-ModelingScenario
    We describe a comprehensive project in modeling through a two dimensional system of equations and a first order system of differential equations a drone heading home.

    Keywords: dronesoursuitflight pathchange of variables

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    6-045-CholeraTranmission-ModelingScenario
    During the project described here, the students will learn how to solve and address a practical problem such as cholera transmission using various mathematical tools.

    Keywords: infectious diseasecholeraendemicdisease-freetransmission ratewaterborne pathogen

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