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1. Human population growth case study

   31 Aug 2024 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Melissa Sue Bowlin

   University of Michigan-Dearborn

   A case study on human population growth that includes Human-Environment Interactions (HEI) from the Ecological Society of America's 4 dimensional ecology teaching framework. Meant to be used in...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/4975/?v=1

2. Continuous Growth Models

   16 Aug 2024 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Anton E Weisstein

   Truman State University

   This Excel worksheet compares user-input growth data with predictions under linear, exponential, and logistic models of growth. Introduces concepts of statistical analysis that can be additionally...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/4937/?v=1

3. Data-Driven Decision-Making: Antarctic Fisheries

   05 Jul 2024 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Jessie Golding¹, Desiree Andersen¹, Ellen Bledsoe¹

   University of Arizona

   This is an entire module for a general education data science and ecology course. The module was originally designed as the fourth and final section of the course; the full course is openly...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/4885/?v=1

4. Navigating Bacterial Changes in Aging Organisms: Graphs, Patterns, and Models

   19 Jun 2024 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Maila Hallare¹, Iordanka Panayotova², Anna Salazar²

   1. United States Air Force Academy 2. Christopher Newport University

   Aging is an incredibly important area of research, and recent biological advances implicate the intestines in aging pathologies. Given that the gut harbors an immense amount of an organism’s...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/4861/?v=1

5. Quantifying Bacterial Growth in the Guts and Hemolymph of Fruit Flies: Mathematical Modeling and Data Interpolation/Extrapolation

   09 Aug 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Maila Hallare¹, Iordanka Panayotova², Anna Salazar³

   1. NSU Math 2. Christopher Newport University 3. MBCH

   In this activity, students will analyze raw data obtained from an experiment that explores the effect of overexpressing the Ssk protein in order to strengthen the intestinal barrier and prevent...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/3403/?v=1

6. 2013-Michael-Evans-Growth and Decay

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

   By Michael Evans

   NA

   Sometimes, we can describe processes of growth and decay—whether physical, chemical, biological or sociological—by mathematical models.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/4103/?v=1

7. RAT ATTACK! Population growth

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

   By Kiersten Newtoff¹, Gina Wesley¹, Will Gretes², Allison Bell², Kelly Livernoche¹, Sean McNamara³, Jeff Leips⁴

   1. Montgomery College 2. Howard Community College 3. Community College of Baltimore County 4. University of Maryland Baltimore County

   This module contains exercises focused on the use and interpretation of density independent and density dependent population growth models. Students build logistic and exponential growth models in...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/4005/?v=1

8. 2011-Kurt_Kreith-The Mathematics of Global Change

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

   By Kurt Kreith

   NA

   The authors discuss broad issues and then focus on specifics like exponential growth, logistic growth, and the logistic equation with delay.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/4059/?v=1

9. 2015-Brian_Winkel-Informed_Conjecturing_of_Solutions_for_Differential_Equations_In_a_Modeling_Contex

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

   By Brian Winkel

   SIMIODE - Systemic Initiative for Modeling Investigations and Opportunities with Differential Equations

   We examine (1) first order exponential growth or decay and (2) second order, linear, constant coefficient differential equations, and show the advantage of learning differential equations in a...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/3799/?v=1

10. 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

11. 1-032-WordPropagation-ModelingScenario

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

    By Rachel Bayless¹, Rachelle DeCoste²

    1. Agnes Scott College, Decatur GA USA 2. Wheaton College, Norton MA USA

    This activity is a gentle introduction to modeling via differential equations. The students will learn about exponential growth by modeling the rate at which the word jumbo has propagated through...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/3308/?v=1

12. 1-150-CancerTherapy-ModelingScenario

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

    By Iordanka Panayotova¹, Maila Hallare²

    1. Christopher Newport University 2. NSU Math

    This activity builds upon elementary models on population growth. In particular, we compare two different treatment models of cancer therapy where in one, surgery happens before therapy and in the...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/3195/?v=1

13. Uninhibited Growth of Cells

    10 Mar 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Emily Boyce

    South Puget Sound CC

    In this activity, students will explore the concept of binary fission, generation time, and bacterial growth curves, with an emphasis on the log phase. Students will use semi-log graphs and linear...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2895/?v=1

14. An active-learning lesson that targets student understanding of population growth in ecology

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

    By Elizabeth Trenckmann¹, Michelle Smith¹, Karen Nicole Pelletreau¹, Mindi M. Summers²

    1. University of Maine 2. University of Maine, University of Calgary

    Effective teaching and learning of population ecology requires integration of quantitative literacy skills. To facilitate student learning in population ecology and provide students with the...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2587/?v=1

15. Graphing bacterial growth rates: semi-log graphs v linear graphs

    26 Feb 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Adam Marschall Jaros¹, Adronisha Frazier², Beth Alford², Brandy Williams²

    1. Lansing Community College 2. Northshore Technical Community College

    In this activity, students will explore the concept of binary fission, generation time, and bacterial growth curves, with an emphasis on the log phase. Students will use semi-log graphs and linear...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2252/?v=1

16. Big Data, Graphs, and Prediction

    17 Feb 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Jennifer Lyon Adler¹, David Simon², Emmanuel des-Bordes³, Joseph Esquibel⁴, mary miller², Pradip Raj Aryal⁵, Vickie Flanders²

    1. Maysville Community and Technical College 2. Baton Rouge Community College 3. Blue Ridge Community College 4. University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison College 5. NMSU Carlsbad

    In this activity, students are introduced to graphing and modeling data in a step-wise fashion. Real data of covid-19 deaths over time are used to incrementally ask students to fit the data to...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2261/?v=1

17. BactVsPhage

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    27 Jun 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Drew LaMar

    Simulates basic models in theoretical ecology, as well as three models of bacteria/bacteriophage interactions.