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    More In Depth Spreadsheet Management Adaptation of Data Management using NEON Small Mammal Data
    This adaptation consists of three exercises that introduce students to 1) format spreadsheet data tables, 2) carry out spreadsheet quality control, and 3) count/sort/filter data of interest in...

    Keywords: data managementspreadsheetsmammalsCapture mark-recapture

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    MS Excel Refresher - Lizards, iguanas, and snakes! Oh my! | Data Nuggets
    This resource, a MS Excel refresher, extends the level for this Data Nugget. Students are given an Excel workbook with the data and asked to graph and calculate diversity using Excel functions...

    Keywords: Resources @ Data NuggetsspreadsheetsRestoration EcologyUsing Excelgraphing in Excelformulas in ExcelApplied ecology

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    Prosecutor’s Fallacy and Mammograms Case Study
    An introduction to Prosecutor’s Fallacy, and False Positives/Negatives. By Dr. Diaz Eaton, Bates College, for use in DCS 105A, and inspired by Calling Bull & Calculated Risks.

    Keywords: ProbabilityExcelcalling bullMammogramsData UnderstandingVisualizing Outcomes

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    Lesson VI - The Community Science Project
    Genome Solver's Community Science Project was developed as a way to use the skills taught in the previous lessons. We're asking members of the community to provide instances of potential phage...

    Keywords: Bioinformatics EducationBioinformatics and Genomics

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    Calculating and Comparing Biodiversity Materials Across Sites Using NEON Herbaceous Vegetation Data - a Tutorial
    These materials are intended for use at the undergraduate level. They employ R and Excel software.
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    1-031-CoolIt-ModelingScenario
    We offer data on the temperature of water in a beaker in a room of constant temperature and in a room of nonconstant temperature. Students consider both empirical and analytic modeling...

    Keywords: SpanishNewton's Law of Coolingcooling

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    2022-Kalman-Improved Approaches Discrete Continuous Logistic Equation
    In the precalculus curriculum, logistic growth generally appears in either a discrete or continuous setting. These actually feature distinct versions of logistic growth, and textbooks rarely...

    Keywords: logisticcontinuousSpreadsheetPrecalculusdiscrete

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    Fitting Exponential and Logistic Growth Models to Bacterial Cell Count Data
    In this activity, students will model a noisy set of bacterial cell count data using both exponential and logistic growth models. For each model the students will plot the data (or a linear...

    Keywords: modelingdata analysislinear regressiongraphingExponentsoptimizationcalculusInterpreting GraphsFunctionsqbccCellular and Molecular BiologyChoosing modelsUnderstanding ratesConcepts in Statisticsmeasurementsmanipulating equationscreating graphsExponential and Logarithmic Functionsinterpreting tables

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    2000-Armson-Cockroft-Stone-Modelling a barnacle goose population
    This paper explores a number of models for the growth of a barnacle goose population. These geese spend their summers breeding in Spitsbergen and then winter in Caerlaverock on the Solway Firth....

    Keywords: population dynamicsexponentiallogistic equationBarnacle Geese

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    1-005-OilSlick-ModelingScenario
    We describe a modeling activity with difference and differential equations which enlightens students on the model building process and parameter estimation for a linear, first-order,...

    Keywords: model fittingspreadsheetsSpanishderrame de petróleodatosexpansiónoil slick

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    6-065-InternetPlatformUsers-ModelingScenario
    A model estimating the volume of users interacting through a two-sided Internet platform (allowing interaction of two types of users) will teach students how to analyze a 2-dimensional dynamical...

    Keywords: dynamicsflowconservedfixed pointscycletinternet platformdiverghenceJacobianattractingrepellingnodesstablesaddlespiral

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    Links to Avida-ED spreadsheets for Active LENS and BioQUEST 2018
    Avida-ED materials and resources for Active LENS and BioQUEST 2018.

    Keywords: avida-edSummer Workshop 2018

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    2001-Cheng-Teaching mathematical modelling in Singapore schools
    The purpose of this paper is to examine the possibility of introducing the teaching of mathematical modelling to the secondary school curriculum in Singapore.

    Keywords: teachinglogisticsecondary school mathematicsBarnacle GeeseSingapore

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    1-053-SlimeSpread-ModelingScenario
    We offer a video showing real time spread of a cylinder of slime and challenge students to build a mathematical model for this phenomenon.

    Keywords: spreadsheetsslime

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    Introduction to Data Management and Metadata using NEON aquatic macroinvertebrate data
    This lesson focuses on understanding metadata, the data about the data, using aquatic macroinvertebrate abundance and species information from a variety of NEON sampling locations.

    Keywords: data managementSpreadsheetmetadata

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    Modification of "The Effect of Climate Change on Butterfly Phenology" module by Linton et al.
    This is a modification of the Linton et al. module in TIEE Volume 13. Students use data from digitized museum records of butterfly specimens in a modification with no homework (lab/workshop format)...

    Keywords: ExcelResources @ ESA - TIEEclimate changefmnphenologynatural history collectionsDIGbutterflyinterspecific interactions

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    Parasites -- They're what's for dinner: Investigating the role of parasites in aquatic food webs
    Use a well-resolved food web database from a freshwater wetland ecosystem in central California to explore how parasites influence community properties and learn how food webs are constructed and...

    Keywords: Resources @ ESA - TIEEparasitismDisease ecologyfmnDIGfood web ecologywetland communitiescomplex life cyclesnetwork modelingintroductory ecology

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    Ecology of Infectious Disease: Data Mining the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS) for Ecological Patterns
    How to use publicly available infection case data to teach ecology and evolution of human infectious diseases.

    Keywords: Evolutionecologyinfectious diseasehumansjigsawsmall group workEvolutionary medicinedata explorationCDCNNDSS

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    Data Management in Excel and R using National Ecological Observatory Network's (NEON) Small Mammal Data
    Students use small mammal data from the National Ecological Observatory Network to understand necessary steps of data management from data collection to data analysis by re-organising excel sheets...

    Keywords: codingR Markdowndata managementggplot2spreadsheetssmall mammals community dynamicsNEONResource TypeNational Ecological Observatory NetworkR softwaredplyr

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    Data Management Adaptation: Correlating Forest Community Dynamics to Climate
    Students use vegetation structure data from the National Ecological Observatory Network to understand necessary steps of data management from data collection to data analysis by correlating...

    Keywords: forest ecologydata managementspreadsheetsCommunity DynamicsNEONDIGNational Ecological Observatory Networkbiomass

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