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ModelSim Population Biology Unit
18 May 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/902This resource provides rich student modeling activities and materials, teacher resources, and much more, in the realm of agent based models applied to population biology....
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Modernizing Statistics Education via Biology Applications
21 Oct 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Olcay Akman
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/254In most traditional statistics courses, instructors use data from different fields in an effort to give the courses an interdisciplinary flavor. They generally fail because these attempts...
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Monkey Opsins
20 Aug 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/356Humans have trichromatic vision. Our eyes detect colors in the visible range of the spectrum using three different cone cell types, each maximally stimulated by a different wavelength of...
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More Mice with Fangs: Intermediate Punnett Squares
09 Jan 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Dr. Kaci Thompson, Dr. Kären Nelson
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/742An online module utilizing probability and Punnett squares to introduce students to more complex genetic problems. The module emphasizes students' use of probability...
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Mutation and Selection: An Exploration of Antibiotic Resistance in Serratia marcescens
15 Sep 2016 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Laurel Hester, Mark Sarvary, Corey Ptak
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/875I published this paper with Mark Sarvary and Corey Ptak in the 2014 Proceedings of the Association for Biology Laboratory Education based on a laboratory module we...
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Natural Hazards and Risks
24 Aug 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Lisa Gilbert, Josh Galster, Joan Ramage
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: http://qubeshub.org/publications/290This module explores how hurricanes connect the ocean-atmosphere-terrestrial systems and society by having students evaluate how hurricane hazards and risks have changed with coastal development.
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Natural History Collections as Emerging Resources for Innovative Education
24 Feb 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material
This resource has been updated - find the current version here:https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/854Article abstract:"There is an emerging consensus that undergraduate biology education in the United States is at a crucial juncture, especially...
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NetLogo refresher course
02 Aug 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Steven F Railsback, Volker Grimm
This is a supplemental resource from Agent-based and Individual-based Modeling: a practical introduction By Railsback and Grimm (2012). This is a review of some key principles of programming in NetLogo, from exercise 8 of Chapter 9 of the book.
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Network-based models of transmission of infectious diseases: a brief overview
10 May 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Winfried Just, Hannah Lea Callender, Drew LaMar
The main purpose of this document is to give a brief but mathematically rigorous description of the network-based models of transmission of infectious diseases that are studied on this web site. Readers will be able to find a much more detailed development of this material in our book chapters...
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Numbers Count!: Calculus 2 course
28 Mar 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Claudia Neuhauser
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/751Based upon the University of Minnesota Bachelor's of Science in Health Science calculus curriculum (part 2), this course introduces linear transformations,...
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Numbers Count!: Statistics course
28 Mar 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Claudia Neuhauser
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/750This course in the Numbers Count! curriculum introduces the basics of statistical analysis, including basic definitions, data visualization, and application.
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ODD Description of the BEFORE Beech Forest Model
02 Aug 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Steven F Railsback, Volker Grimm
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/872This is a supplemental resource from Agent-based and Individual-based Modeling: a practical introduction by Railsback and Grimm (2012). This is an ODD...
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OpenIntro
24 Jan 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/889OpenIntro was started with one goal in mind: create a free and open-source introductory textbook. The mission of OpenIntro is to make educational products that...
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OpenIntro
24 Jan 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/889OpenIntro was started with one goal in mind: create a free and open-source introductory textbook. The mission of OpenIntro is to make educational products that...
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Performing a Population Viability Analysis from Data Students Collect on a Local Plant
23 Sep 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Noah Chamey, Sydne Record
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/264During two lab periods, students collect demographic data on perennial plants and then use these data in a matrix model to perform population viability analyses. During the first lab,...
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PLANT Talking Points: Crime Scene Botanicals - Forensic Botany...
10 Oct 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/817Provides information on the interesting job of Forensic Botany using real life examples
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PLANT Talking Points: Popcorn, endosperm and the foods we eat...
05 Oct 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/818This resource connects botany to everyday life by way of explaining what common foods we eat really are.
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Pokemon Go and Ecology
17 Feb 2017 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Elizabeth C Davis-Berg, Joshua Drew, Stephanie Sardelis <stephanie.sardelis@gmail.com>
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/787These are resources associated with using Pokemon Go to teach concepts in Ecology. They can be used from Introductory non-majors classes up through graduate classes.
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Population Genetics: When Darwin Met Mendel - Crash Course Biology
03 Oct 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): CrashCourse
This Youtube video talks about population genetics, which helps to explain the evolution of populations over time by combing the principles of Mendel and Darwin, and by means of the Hardy-Weinberg equation, all in an upbeat, modern and somewhat zany manner.
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Population Growth
30 Jan 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Miles Silman
Lab exercise in which students model both discrete and continuous density-independent growth. Students also model discrete and time-lagged density-dependent growth. General questions are provided at the end.