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1-018-LogisticPopModel-ModelingScenario
02 May 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Brian Winkel
SIMIODE - Systemic Initiative for Modeling Investigations and Opportunities with Differential Equations
We offer artificial (toy) and historical data on limited growth population situations in the study of protozoa and lead students through several approaches to estimating parameters and determining...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/2964/?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
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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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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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A Remote Introductory Biology Lab Using Backyard Birdwatching to Teach Data Analysis and Communication
29 Aug 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Jennifer J. Rahn
William & Mary
Asking questions, designing experiments, collecting data and interpreting those data, and communicating the results are some of the most important concepts an undergraduate biology lab can teach...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/2699/?v=1
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A Strategy for Teaching Undergraduates to Write Effective Scientific Results Sections
24 Aug 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Jennifer K. Hood-DeGrenier
Worcester State University
Most undergraduate instructors would agree that learning to write about data in the style of a scientific research paper is a worthy goal for their students. However, many hesitate to tackle...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/2554/?v=1
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A Very Basic Tutorial for Performing Linear Mixed Effects Analyses: Tutorial 2
20 Oct 2018 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Bodo Winter
University of California, Merced
The second of two tutorials that introduce you to linear and linear mixed models. This tutorial serves as a quick boot camp to jump-start your own analyses with linear mixed effects models.
https://qubeshub.org/publications/833/?v=1
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AIMS- Analyzing Images to learn Mathematics and Statistics - studying leaf cutter ants to learn linear regression
03 Jan 2018 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Jeremy M Wojdak
Radford University
This is a teaching resource that uses fascinating images and videos of leaf cutter ants foraging in Panama to provide an engaging context for students to learn about mathematics and statistics.
https://qubeshub.org/publications/239/?v=1
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Analysis of Amylase Activity
24 Nov 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Allison Carter Burlyn1, Christina Fieber1, Melanie Lenahan2
1. Horry-Georgetown Technical College 2. Raritan Valley Community College
This lab is an exploration of enzyme function and the effects of environmental conditions on the activity of the enzyme amylase. The lab utilizes analytical and graphing skills to assess enzyme...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/2145/?v=1
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BIO 263 Ecological Data Analysis
29 Oct 2018 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Rachel Schwartz1, Linda Forrester1
University of Rhode Island
Course materials for BIO 263 Ecological Data Analysis
https://qubeshub.org/publications/885/?v=1
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BIO 439/539: Big Data Analysis
29 Oct 2018 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Rachel Schwartz1, Linda Forrester1
University of Rhode Island
Course materials for BIO 439/539: Big Data Analysis
https://qubeshub.org/publications/884/?v=1
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Biometeorology of Asthma in South Florida: From Statistical Analysis to Mathematical Modeling
03 Jan 2018 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By David Quesada
St. Thomas University, School of Science, Technology and Engineering Management
Part of the 2015 SMB Minisymposium: Topics in Biomathematics Education
https://qubeshub.org/publications/251/?v=1
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Changes in Lake Ice: Ecosystem Response to Global Change
15 May 2018 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Todd Levine1, Robert Bohanan2, Marianne Krasny3, Adam Welman3
1. Carroll University 2. University of Wisconsin 3. Cornell University
Data Set included in included in Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology (TIEE) Volume 3
https://qubeshub.org/publications/547/?v=1
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Cleaning Data with R and the Tidyverse in Swirl
09 Jun 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Rachel Hartnett
Mount St. Mary's University
The overall goal is to help students learn common data cleaning procedures on a dataset once they’ve collected measurements and before they are able to start their analysis. This swirl lesson is...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/1891/?v=1
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Cookbook for R
11 Sep 2018 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Winston Chang
The goal of the cookbook is to provide solutions to common tasks and problems in analyzing data.
https://qubeshub.org/publications/780/?v=1
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Course materials for Quantifying Environmental Justice
01 Jan 2024 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Jabari Jones
Bowdoin College
Course materials for Quantifying Environmental Justice, taught as Environmental Science 4201 at University of Minnesota, Morris in Spring 2023. Description:The concept of justice has received...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/4538/?v=1
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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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Digital Herbarium Lab with RStudio: Are shifting abundances of native species detectable over time?
23 Jul 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Rebecca Penny Humphrey
Aquinas College
This 2- to 3-hour lab activity introduces sophomore-level students to digitized herbarium collections, R-coding, and potential reasons for shifting abundances in native and non-native plant species...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/2482/?v=1
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Earth Analytics Bootcamp Course
15 Oct 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Jenny Palomino1, Leah Wasser
Earth Lab - University of Colorado, Boulder
The Earth Analytics Bootcamp is a three-week introductory-level course taught by instructors in Earth Lab and is a part of the Professional Certificate in Earth Data Analytics - Foundations at CU...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/1438/?v=1
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Earth Analytics in Python Course
01 Nov 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Leah Wasser1, Jenny Palomino1, Chris Holdgraf2
1. Earth Lab - University of Colorado, Boulder 2. University of California, Berkeley
Earth analytics is an intermediate, multidisciplinary course that addresses major questions in Earth science and teaches students to use the analytical tools necessary to undertake exploration of...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/1437/?v=1