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1. Project MOSAIC

   20 Oct 2018 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Daniel Kaplan¹, Karl-Dieter Crisman², Nicholas Horton³, Eric Marland⁴, Randall Pruim⁵

   1. Macalester College 2. Gordon College 3. Amherst College 4. Appalachian State University 5. Calvin College

   Our goal: Provide a broader approach to quantitative studies that provides better support for work in science and technology.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/825/?v=1

2. Quantitative Modules to accompany general biology courses

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   06 Feb 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Lou Gross, Susan Harrell Yee, Monica Beals

   This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/828This collection of about 50 modules were developed to accompany general biology courses and allow instructors to add some quantitative examples in many of the topics in a...

3. Quantitative Modules to Accompany General Biology Courses

   20 Oct 2018 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Lou Gross¹, Susan Harell Yee², Monica Beals³

   1. University of Tennessee Knoxville 2. EPA, Gulf Ecology Division 3. SAS

   A collection of modules that were developed to accompany general biology courses and allow instructors to add quantitative examples in many of the topics in a standard GB sequence.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/828/?v=1

4. Responses to Climate Change in California Chipmunks: Move, Adapt, or Die

   10 Feb 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Talisin Hammond¹, Rachel E. Walsh², Eileen Lacey³

   1. San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research 2. University of California, Berkeley 3. Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, UC Berkeley

   A series of three modules using data from natural history museum collections to examine responses to climate change in multiple chipmunk species. Elevation and morphological data, beginner skills...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/1752/?v=1

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

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   20 Oct 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Brian Winkel

   SIMIODE - Systemic Initiative for Modeling Investigations and Opportunities with Differential Equations  is about teaching differential equations using modeling and technology upfront and throughout the learning process. You can learn more at our dynamic website, www.simiode.org, where we...

6. Small-world models

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   02 Jun 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Winfried Just, Hannah Lea Callender

   Small-world networks are classes of networks that have both the small-world property and exhibit strong clustering. Two constructions of such networks are implemented in IONTW. Here we study, both theoretically and with simulation experiments, the structure of these networks and how it influences...

7. Statistical Exploration of Climate Data

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   11 Mar 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Tamra Carpenter, Robert Vanderbei, Jon Kettenring

   This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/900Teacher version       Student versionThis module is appropriate for introductory statistics classes.Supporting files: Module figures for...

8. Statistical Exploration of Climate Data

   30 Oct 2018 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Tamra Carpenter¹, Jon Kettenring², Robert Vanderbei³

   1. DIMACS, Rutgers University 2. Research Institute for Scientists Emeriti, Drew University 3. Princeton University

   In this module the students will learn some basic concepts in statistical thinking about data, with emphasis on exploratory data analysis.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/900/?v=1

9. statsTeachR

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   23 Jan 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Nicholas Reich, Andrea Foulkes, Harrel Blatt, Eric Cohen, Gregory Matthews

   This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/781From the project website:What is statsTeachR?statsTeachR is an open-access, online repository of modular lesson plans, a.k.a. "modules", for teaching...

10. statsTeachR

    11 Sep 2018 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Nicholas G. Reich¹, Andrea S. Foulkes¹, Harrel Blatt¹, Eric A. Cohen¹, Gregory Matthews¹

    University of Massachusetts

    statsTeachR is an open-access, online repository of modular lesson plans, a.k.a. "modules", for teaching statistics using R at the undergraduate and graduate level.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/781/?v=1

11. Staying Alive: Extinction Risk: Introduction to Extinction and Extinction Bias

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    08 Jul 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Samantha Price, Peggy Schaeffer, Anna Thanukos, Samantha Swauger

    This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/275Data used in this activity are derived from: Price, S.A., and Gittleman J.L. 2007. Hunting to extinction: biology and regional economy influence extinction risk and the impact of hunting in...

12. Survivorship in the Natural World

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    09 Jul 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Anne M. Bronikowski, Jeanne Altmann, Diane K. Brockman, Marina Cords, Linda M. Fedigan, Anne Pusey, Tara Stoinski, William F. Morris, Karen B. Strier, Susan C. Alberts, Samantha Swauger

    This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/273Data used in this activity are derived from: Bronikowski A.M., Altmann J., Brockman D.K., Cords, M., Fedigan, L.M., Pusey, A., Stoinski, T., Morris, W.F., Strier, K.B., Alberts, S.C. (2011)...

13. Teaching Exponential and Logistic Growth in a Variety of Classroom and Laboratory Settings

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    03 Aug 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Barry Aronhime, Bret D. Elderd, Carol Wicks, Margaret McMichael, Elizabeth Eich

    This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/268Ecology and conservation biology contain numerous examples of populations growing without bounds or shrinking towards extinction. For these populations, the change in the number of...

14. Testing Goodness of Fit with the Chi-Square

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    07 Jan 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Dr. Kaci Thompson, Dr. Kären Nelson

    This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/740This is a MathBench module written for students to use in a self-study mode. It uses a narrative structure, humor, and everyday examples to step the learner through the...

15. The Evolution (and Coevolution) of Flowering Plants

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    02 Dec 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Anna Monfils, Debra Linton, Libby Ellwood, Molly Phillips

    This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/277In this laboratory exercise, students will explore the diversity of flower and fruit adaptations that have evolved to accomplish pollination and seed dispersal and investigate the...

16. The Evolution (and Coevolution) of Flowering Plants

    05 Oct 2018 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Anna Monfils¹, Debra Linton¹, Libby Ellwood², Molly Phillips²

    1. Central Michigan University 2. iDigBio, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida

    Module on coevolution developed by AIM-UP. In the module students utilize natural history collections.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/277/?v=1

17. The friendship paradox

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    10 May 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Winfried Just, Hannah Lea Callender, Drew LaMar

    In this module we introduce the so-called friendship paradox and illustrate how it affects disease transmission on networks that exhibit this phenomenon.You also need to download the input file degreesFP.txt that will be used in this module.Level: Advanced undergraduate and graduate...

18. The preferential attachment model

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    10 May 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Winfried Just, Hannah Lea Callender, Drew LaMar, Ying Xin

    Many empirically studied networks have approximately so-called power-law or scale-free degree distributions. In Section 1 we formally define such distributions and explore some of their properties. We also introduce and briefly compare two methods for constructing random...

19. The replacement number

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    10 May 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Winfried Just, Hannah Lea Callender, Drew LaMar, Ying Xin

    In this module we introduce the important notion of the replacement number, which generalizes the basic reproductive number R0. We investigate how this number behaves near the start of an outbreak in models based on the uniform mixing assumption and in models that assume a contact network that is...

20. Visual Datasets

    29 Jan 2018 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Ethel Stanley

    Three Rivers College/BioQUEST/SCN

    This downloadable module features imaginary animals and plants, and is meant to aid students in thinking about questions of evolution, classification, and phylogeny.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/345/?v=1