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Welcome to the Instructor Guides homepage for the Biophysics and Physiological Modeling Project. The latest versions of the modules, instructor guides and other resources are listed below. If you, or your students, find any errors in the modules, instructor guides or other resources please let me know - I'd love to hear from you. The modules have been tested in my biophysics classes and the version numbers reflect revisions that have been made. The instructor guides are new, so if you have any corrections or suggestions for how they can be improved - please let me know via email.

Instructor Guides and Modules etc...

• Video Summary
  • Introductory Physics for the Life Sciences (IPLS)
  • the physics that life-science students want and need (AAPT Video)
  
  AAPT Poster, #AAPTWM21
  
  
  • Incorporating Molecular Biophysics in the Undergraduate Curriculum
  
  ASBMB @ EB 2021 Handout, #ASBMB, #EB2021


• Instructor guide for the series (v.2.2) - Instructors - read me first!
• Chapter 1: Introduction - the marble game (v.4.9)
  • Instructor guide (v.2.0)
  • Classroom Activity - Marble Game (Excel Spreadsheet 2003)
  • Brownian Motion Demo (Excel 2010 Spreadsheet)
  • How to graph scientific data in Excel 2010 (YouTube Video)
• Chapter 2: Algorithms and pain relief (v.5.0)
  • Instructor guide (v.2.3)
• Chapter 3: Finite difference method and oxygen (v.4.6)
  • Instructor guide (v.2.1)
• Chapter 4: Model Validation and Penicillin (v.4.4)
• https://www.mededportal.org/publication/8081 (part of the AAMC uScience Inaugural Collection)
• Chapter 5: A new model of osmosis (v.4.6)
• Chapter 12: COVID-19 and epidemiology (Extended) (v.4.4)
  • Introductory models of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States (Biophysical Society Meeting Video)
    
    #bps2021
  • Can you model the COVID-19 pandemic in a spreadsheet? Check this out ... (LinkedIn post)
    

Please watch this space for more chapters as they become available...

Evaluation

If you use these chapters as part of this Beta test, I'd like to encourage you to evaluate the chapters, their effectiveness in producing student learning gains and then provide feedback. Below is a link to an evaluation tool that I've found useful. If you have another preferred tool or methodology, I'd be delighted to hear from you. Please consider this as an active learning experience for us all. If you have suggestions about how to improve this material or the process of disseminating it - please let me know. I'm currently working on more materials, if you're interested in seeing draft versions, please email me.

• Student evaluations (SALG)

I'm also looking for collaborators who are interested in evaluating these materials as an example of how science education projects evolve and how to determine student learning benefits from curricular changes. If you are interested, please email me.

Useful stuff

• Dr. Pete's useful stuff (v.1.9)
• More Excel Videos

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This page was last updated on August 11, 2024 by pHn.
© Peter Hugo Nelson 2009-2024

Conditions of use: If you use these materials, you should attribute the work in the following manner. Cite the project as a whole as:
        Nelson, P. H. (2024) Biophysics and Physiological Modeling; Available from: http://circle4.com/biophysics/
Cite an individual chapter (e.g. Chapter 1) as:
        Nelson, P. H. (2024) Biophysics and Physiological Modeling - Chapter 1: Introduction - marble game (v.4.8); Available from: http://circle4.com/biophysics/

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