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The Edge Effect
03 May 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Sean McNamara1, Kiersten Newtoff2, Kelly Livernoche2, Allison Bell, Jeff Leips3, Gina Wesley2, William Gretes4
1. Community College of Baltimore County 2. Montgomery College 3. University of Maryland Baltimore County 4. Howard Community College
This module has students venturing outdoors to take a 50m transect and collect abundance data on plants utilizing quadrats in both edge and interior environment. Mathematically the goals of this...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/4292/?v=1
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Fernando Miranda-Mendoza
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1999-Richard_Single-Different quotients-derivatives-and data through modeling with slime
02 Apr 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Richard Single
NA
In this article, I present an experiment that can be conducted in a calculus class to investigate the difference quotient and the derivative, using mathematical modeling with student-collected data.
https://qubeshub.org/publications/3939/?v=1
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Liz Lange
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Learning R for Biologists: A Mini Course Grab-Bag for Instructors
21 Mar 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Amanda D. Clark1, Laurie S. Stevison*1
Auburn University
As biology becomes more data driven, teaching students data literacy skills has become central to biology curriculum. Despite a wealth of online resources that teach researchers how to use R, there...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/3698/?v=1
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Microbiology Data Problems 2023
22 Feb 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Charles E Deutch
Microbion Research
This project focuses on the use of data analysis problems to introduce students to specific topics in microbiology and to give them practice in the interpretation of figures and tables of data....
https://qubeshub.org/publications/3693/?v=1
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Veronica Manka'a Tangiri
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Curvature and Maximum Permissible Speeds
26 Dec 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Adam Rumpf
Florida Polytechnic University
In this activity students will compute the curvature of a section of commuter rail and use it to determine a safe speed at which a train should can round the corner without tipping or derailing....
https://qubeshub.org/publications/3612/?v=1
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1-038-Ebola-ModelingScenario
14 Nov 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Lisa Driskell
Colorado Mesa University, Grand Junction CO USA
Students will use data published by the World Health Organization to model the 2014 outbreak of the Ebola virus in West Africa. We begin with a simple exponential growth model and move through the...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/3070/?v=1
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Dr. Agnes Pasco Conaty, PhD
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Kanisorn Sawangsawai
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Rabi Elabor
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From Biology to Mathematical Models and Back: Teaching Modeling to Biology Students, and Biology to Math and Engineering Students
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01 Sep 2022 |
Posted by Suann Yang
https://qubeshub.org/community/groups/biographi/collections/backward-design
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Developing a Test of Scientific Literacy Skills (TOSLS): Measuring Undergraduates’ Evaluation of Scientific Information and Arguments
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23 Aug 2022 |
Posted by Suann Yang
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Biological Variation In Experimental Design And Analysis (BioVEDA)
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23 Aug 2022 |
Posted by Suann Yang
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Pesticides in My Smoothie Bowl?
21 Aug 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Shuangying Yu*1, Scott M. Weir2
1. Central Piedmont Community College 2. Queens University of Charlotte
Teaching resources, especially active learning pedagogy, are scarce for toxicology compared to what is available for other disciplines. Ecological and human health risk assessment are...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/3461/?v=1
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Sexual Dimorphism CURE: Exploring Melanized Wing Patterns of Pieridae Butterflies
18 Aug 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Paula A Trillo1, Elissa Suphapun Sorojsrisom2, Carly N. Jordan3, Janice L. Krumm4
1. Gettysburg College 2. Columbia University 3. George Washington University 4. Widener University
Teach a Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) using digitized natural history collections data to test hypotheses on sexually dimorphic wing melanization patterns of Pieris rapae...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/3250/?v=1
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Alexis Catherine Garretson
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Hypoxia: A Case Study in R
27 May 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Derek Sollberger
UC Merced School of Natural Sciences
Aquatic ecosystems are home to a complex intersection of physical and biological factors and an intersection of natural and anthropogenic factors. In the Chesapeake Bay, low oxygen events have...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/3327/?v=1
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1-022-SpreadOfTechnologies-ModelingScenario
26 May 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Brian Winkel
SIMIODE - Systemic Initiative for Modeling Investigations and Opportunities with Differential Equations
We examine plots on the spread of technologies and ask students to estimate and extract data from the plots and then model several of these spread of technologies phenomena with a logistic...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/3319/?v=1