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    1-001c-PopulationDecayThenSome-ModelingScenario
    You will be modeling the following situation: 100 people are in a hotel. Each day, each person has a random chance of 50% of leaving the hotel. No new people enter the hotel.

    Keywords: simulationoccupancypopulationhotel

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    Coyote Habituation and a Scientist Spotlight on Dr. Christopher Schell
    Dr. Christopher Schell is an ecologist who uses a variety of techniques to study mammalian carnivores in urban areas. This scientist spotlight uses graphs from his study on parental habituation to...

    Keywords: conservation ecologyanimal behaviorurban ecologyInterpreting GraphsBLACK SCIENTISTS IN STEMcoyotes

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    Final Project for Calling Bull
    This is the final project for the calling bull course & it is to find 3 pieces of misinformation/BS and debunk them. They have to re-do at least one visualization, use R in at least one debunking,...

    Keywords: statisticsinformation literacycalling bulleportfolio

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    STEM Inclusive Teaching Practices Webinar Series: Socially Relevant Teaching in the Time of COVID-19
    Presents various mathematical modeling and data science activities created around analyzing and interpreting COVID-19 data. Much of the instructional guidance provided for the activities and...

    Keywords: quantitativemathidigbiodata literacywebinarEDSINBLUEscorecovidSTEMitp

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    Let's Talk About COVID-19
    This exercise asks you to write a short paper reflecting on your personal experiences (or those you have read about) with COVID-19
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    Biodiversity Literacy in Undergraduate Education (BLUE): Building standards and resources for using collections data in the classroom
    Abstract for poster on using collections data presented at the 2019 BioQUEST & QUBES Summer Workshop

    Keywords: data sciencenatural history collections2019 QUBES/BioQUEST Summer WorkshopBLUE

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    Documenting teaching scholarship among undergraduate biology educators using OER
    Poster on the use, adaptation, and reuse of Open Educational Resources within the QUBES community at OpenEd 2018

    Keywords: QUBESadaptationfmnOpenEdteaching scholarship

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    A Pipeline in Paradise, Part 1: Learning the Relevant Science
    This case requires students to integrate information across the following five “knowledge domains” to develop a baseline understanding of the problem.

    Keywords: case studysocio-environmental data

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    Serenity now! Keep calm and do science with real data in the classroom
    Session presented at NABT 2018 in San Diego, CA

    Keywords: NABTdata scienceeducational technologytool:serenitydata acumendata life cycle

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    Natural history collections data and Biodiversity Literacy in Undergraduate Education (BLUE)
    Presentation made by Elizabeth Ellwood et al. as part of the "Bringing Research Data to the Ecology Classroom: Opportunities, Barriers, and Next Steps” Session at the Ecological Society of...

    Keywords: Ecological Society of America

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    An Introduction to Revealing Hidden Figures through Data Sleuthing
    In this introduction to hidden figures in natural history collections (NHCs), students will read an article that gives a unique historical perspective of museums and will then participate in a...

    Keywords: identitysocial justicenatural history collectionsAttributionBCEENETdigitizationRepresentationcourse-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs)hidden figuresdata democratizationrestorative practice

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    1-027-StochasticProcesses-ModelingScenario
    We build the infinite set of first order differential equations for modeling a stochastic process, the so-called birth and death equations. We will only need to use integrating factor solution...

    Keywords: VarianceMeanstochasticrandomoperations researchindustrial engineeringPoisson processtraffic

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    Sounds of the Tropics: Part 3. Can you hear me? How do dolphins in Bocas del Toro, Panama communicate in a noisy habitat?
    This online module provides background information on dolphin communication and explores how a dolphin population responds to dolphin-watching activities in Panama.

    Keywords: Dolphin-watchingecotourismdolphin acousticshuman/nature interactions

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    iEMBER - Novel Networking Fostering Interdisciplinary Communities and New Research Collaborations (RCN-UBE Introduction)
    The vision of the inclusive Environments and Metrics in Biology Education and Research (iEMBER) Network is to improve biology education for learners that are often traditionally excluded from the...

    Keywords: RCN-UBE Introduction

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    2011-Nancy_Rodrıguez-Applied Partial Differential Equations in Crime Modeling and Biological Aggregation
    In the first part we study a fully-parabolic system of PDEs for residential burglary ‘hotspots’ (spatio-temporal areas of high density of crime). In this work we are concerned with the existence...

    Keywords: biologyDiffusionKeller-Segel modelchemotaxiscrime

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    2007-Mogen_Steffensen-Differential Equations in Finance and Life Insurance
    The mathematics of finance and the mathematics of life insurance were always intersecting. Life insurance contracts specify an exchange of streams of payments between the insurance company and the...

    Keywords: financedisabilitylife insurancemortalityinsuraneThiele’s equationBlack-Scholes equation

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    1975-David_Burghes-Population dynamics An introduction to differential equations
    In this paper a number of population models, which lead to differential equations, are derived. First-order variables separable equations are formulated from the Malthusian population model and its...

    Keywords: fishpredator-preylogisticpopulationdelaylag

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    2013-Brian_Winkel-Reflecting_On_Walls
    We reflect on our passion for teaching mathematics, useful mathematics, by considering our understandings of just what a wall is and what a wall means to us.

    Keywords: mathematicsmathematical modellearningcell wall

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    1-046-GoingViral-ModelingScenario
    Students participate in a simulation of the spread of a viral disease in the classroom and model the process with a logistic differential equation. The simulation uses random numbers and the entire...

    Keywords: simulationmathematical modeldatalogisticrandom number generatorfittingrandom process

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    1-165-FlushToilet-ModelingScenario
    This activity analyzes the spread of a technological innovation using the Bass Model from Economics. The equation is a first-order, two-parameter separable equation and the solution has a...

    Keywords: juliaDiffusioninnovationrate of innovationBass modelSolver

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