Teaching Materials (1-8 of 8)

1. Osmosis Through the Lens of Sexual Health

   04 Oct 2024 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Ellie Pollock-Ballard†¹, Lily Najmulski†¹, Taylor Allen*¹

   Oberlin College

   Osmosis contributes to a range of biological phenomena, from functioning of nephrons in animals to stomatal opening and closing in plants; yet, scientifically simple ideas about osmosis are common....

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/4982/?v=1

2. Adapting a Traditional Laboratory Exercise to Become Inquiry Based: An Example With an Introductory Biology Lab in Diffusion

   18 Sep 2024 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Karin E. Kram*¹, Maryam Eslami²

   1. California State University, Dominguez Hills 2. University of California, Irvine

   Authentic research experiences are effective in fostering self-efficacy and increasing retention in STEM, particularly among minoritized student populations. Many instructors have sought to bring...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/4968/?v=1

3. 2011-Nancy_Rodrıguez-Applied Partial Differential Equations in Crime Modeling and Biological Aggregation

   07 Apr 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Nancy Rodrıguez

   NA

   In the first part we study a fully-parabolic system of PDEs for residential burglary ‘hotspots’ (spatio-temporal areas of high density of crime). In this work we are concerned with the existence...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/4064/?v=1

4. A Simple Method for Predicting a Molecule's Biological Properties From Its Polarity

   29 Mar 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Gregory J. Crowther*¹, Sasha D. Gradwell†², Timothy S. Eckert³

   1. Everett Community College; University of Washington Bothell 2. Everett Community College 3. Carthage College

   The distinction between very polar and less polar substances is a foundation of biochemistry, cell biology, and physiology; it surfaces in multiple concept inventories and elaborations of...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/3846/?v=1

5. 1-070-FisheryHarvest-ModelingScenario

   21 Jun 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Wandi Ding

   Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro TN USA

   Students model with logistic growth, harvesting, and diffusion in analyzing ocean fisheries of the Atlantic cod. We help students build models, ever more complex, to capture physical realities. At...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/3261/?v=1

6. 1-165-FlushToilet-ModelingScenario

   21 May 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Maila Hallare¹, Charles Lamb²

   1. NSU Math 2. Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana PA USA

   This activity analyzes the spread of a technological innovation using the Bass Model from Economics. The equation is a first-order, two-parameter separable equation and the solution has a...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/3191/?v=1

7. 9-020-HeatDiffusion-ModelingScenario

   09 May 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Kimberly Spayd¹, James Puckett¹

   Gettysburg College, Gettysburg PA USA

   This project guides students through experimental, analytical, and numerical techniques for understanding the heat (diffusion) equation with nonhomogeneous boundary conditions. In particular,...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/3000/?v=1

8. Necessary and Sufficient? Solving the Mystery of the Mitochondrial Pyruvate Transporter

   29 Aug 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Mariel A. Pfeifer¹, Julie Dangremond Stanton*¹

   University of Georgia

   While there are several available lessons for teaching introductory biology students about diffusion, facilitated diffusion, and active transport, fewer materials exist to support upper-division...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2667/?v=1