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Disease Spread
22 Nov 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Brian Winkel
An activity in which students model the spread of disease using one differential equation.
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Yeast Cell Growth
19 Nov 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Claudia Neuhauser
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/755Excel Workbook on lab data for yeast growth experiments provides a series of stepwise tasks for data analysis.
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Confidence Intervals Tutorial
19 Nov 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Claudia Neuhauser, David Phillip Schladt
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/754This Excel mini-tutorial introduces the calculation and application of confidence intervals.
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Allele and Phenotype Frequencies in Rock Pocket Mouse Populations
03 Oct 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Dr. Michael Nachman
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/340Lesson plan for teaching Hardy-Weinberg principle using real data collected by Dr. Michael Nachman and his colleagues.
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Mendelian Genetics, Probability, Pedigree, and Chi-Squared Statistics
03 Oct 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Anne Brokaw, Michelle Garber-Talamo
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/341In this classroom activity, students are introduced to the genetics of sickle cell disease by a short film The Making of the Fittest: Natural Selection in Humans . A classroom handout...
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A Laboratory Class Exploring Microbial Diversity and Evolution Using Online Databases, the Biology Workbench, and Phylogenetics Software
29 Sep 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Sarah Boomer, Kelly Shipley, Bryan Dutton, Daniel Lodge
Students assemble and align bacterial datasets using DNA information downloaded from the National Center for Biotechnology Information website and Biology Workbench. Specifically, they compare unknown original DNA sequences (from, in our case, hot spring communities) to a backbone of...
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Performing a Population Viability Analysis from Data Students Collect on a Local Plant
23 Sep 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Noah Chamey, Sydne Record
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/264During two lab periods, students collect demographic data on perennial plants and then use these data in a matrix model to perform population viability analyses. During the first lab,...
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Global Temperature Change in the 21st Century
23 Sep 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Daniel R. Taub, Gillian S. Graham
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/263The Ecological QuestionHow might global temperature change during the 21st century? How might these changes vary geographically, seasonally, and depending upon future human...
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Exploring the Population Dynamics of Wintering Bald Eagles Through Long-Term Data
23 Sep 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Julie Beckstead, Alexandra Lagasse, Scott Robinson
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/265The Ecological QuestionHow does a bald eagle population change over time at a winter migratory stopover and which factors influence its abundance?This activity has two different aspects to...
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Changes in Lake Ice: Ecosystem Response to Global Change
23 Sep 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Robert E. Bohanan, Marianne Krasny, Adam Welman
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/266Ecological QuestionIs there evidence for global warming in long term data on changes in dates of ice cover in three Wisconsin Lakes?This activity uses ice cover records from three lakes in...
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Investigating the Footprint of Climate Change on Phenology and Ecological Interactions in North-Central North America
23 Sep 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Kellen M. Calinger
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/267The Ecological QuestionHave long-term temperatures changed throughout Ohio? How will these temperature changes impact plant and animal phenology, ecological interactions, and, as a result,...
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Environmental Justice and Fresh Water
24 Aug 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Adriana Perez, Jill Schneiderman, Meg Stewart, Joshua Villalobos
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/276This module enables students to identify the freshwater components of the hydrologic cycle and connect them to the basic need of all human beings for equal access to clean freshwater.
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Interactions Between Water, Earth's Surface, and Human Activity
24 Aug 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Sue Debari, Kyle Gray, Julie Monet
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/288This module focuses on water and its importance to humans using Google Earth images of stream profiles in different climates, and with real river flooding data sets.
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Climate of Change: Interactions and Feedbacks between Water, Air and Ice
24 Aug 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Cindy Shellito, Becca Walker, Cynthia Fadem
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/289In this module students explore short-term climate variability resulting from atmosphere-ocean-ice interactions.
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Natural Hazards and Risks
24 Aug 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Lisa Gilbert, Josh Galster, Joan Ramage
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: http://qubeshub.org/publications/290This module explores how hurricanes connect the ocean-atmosphere-terrestrial systems and society by having students evaluate how hurricane hazards and risks have changed with coastal development.
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A Growing Concern: Sustaining Soil Resources through Local Decision Making
24 Aug 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Sarah Fortner, Martha Murphy, Hannah Scherer
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/291This module addresses agricultural productivity by providing students with the opportunity to examine the differences between intensively managed agricultural landscapes (e.g. grazelands,...
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Map Your Hazards
20 Aug 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Brittany Brand, Melissa Schlegel, Pamela McMullin-Messier
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: http://qubeshub.org/publications/292This interdisciplinary module allows students to understand societal impacts that result from natural hazards and gain insight into how our knowledge and perspectives of the world shape how we...
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List of models in which observed patterns are Important
02 Aug 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Steven F Railsback, Volker Grimm
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/876Supplemental material for Chapter 18 of Agent-Based and Individual-Based Modeling: A practical introduction by Railsback and Grimm (2012). This is a list of...
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NetLogo refresher course
02 Aug 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Steven F Railsback, Volker Grimm
This is a supplemental resource from Agent-based and Individual-based Modeling: a practical introduction By Railsback and Grimm (2012). This is a review of some key principles of programming in NetLogo, from exercise 8 of Chapter 9 of the book.
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Dairy Farm Mathematics
09 Jul 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Richard Francisco, Katie Gilbert
This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/783From the website:We based our instructional unit on the premise that many people have, that one does not need mathematics if the they do not plan on attending...