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Modeling the Mechanisms of Evolution
25 May 2018 | Software (On-site) | Contributor(s): Jackie Matthes
Simulate population-level mechanisms of evolution: genetic drift, gene flow, and natural selection.
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Modeling: A Primer - The crafty art of making, exploring, extending, transforming, tweaking, bending, disassembling, questioning, and breaking models
26 Feb 2016 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): William Wimsatt, Jeff Schank
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/346Explore how to use, analyze, and criticize some important and historically influential models in biology in this text only module.
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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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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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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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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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Project MOSAIC
23 Jan 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Daniel Kaplan, Karl-Dieter Crisman, Nicholas Horton, Eric Marland, Randall Pruim
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/825From the project website: Project MOSAIC is a community of educators working to develop a new way to introduce mathematics, statistics, computation and modeling...
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Radiant Lite
24 Jul 2019 | Software (On-site) | Contributor(s): Drew LaMar
Stripped down version of Radiant on QUBES
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SIMIODE - Systemic Initiative for Modeling Investigations and Opportunities with Differential Equations
20 Oct 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Brian Winkel
SIMIODE - Systemic Initiative for Modeling Investigations and Opportunities with Differential Equations is about teaching differential equations using modeling and technology upfront and throughout the learning process. You can learn more at our dynamic website, www.simiode.org, where we...
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Sting, Carry and Stock: How Corpse Availability Can Regulate De-Centralized Task Allocation in a Ponerine Ant Colony
20 Oct 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Istvan Karsai, Thomas Schmickl
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/844We develop a model to produce plausible patterns of task partitioning in the ponerine ant Ectatomma ruidum based on the availability of living prey and prey corpses. The...
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Testing Goodness of Fit with the Chi-Square
07 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/740This is a MathBench module written for students to use in a self-study mode. It uses a narrative structure, humor, and everyday examples to step the learner through the...
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Tools: New tools for new science
06 Feb 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/891A collection of computational, modeling and data analysis tools developed at Microsoft Research Labs.
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Training In-Service Teachers to Think Deeply About Modeling in the Common Core Movement
11 Oct 2016 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Talitha Washington
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/242Over the years, I have conducted in-service teacher training sessions and workshops organized by the Capstone Institute at Howard University. My role has been to enhance teacher content...