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    Incubators: A community based model for improving the usability of bioinformatics learning resources
    Poster on Incubators, a NIBLSE and QUBES collaboration presented at Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference - Chicago, IL

    Keywords: NIBLSEincubators

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    Distributed creation, community guidance, and OER development: current models and emerging practices
    Presented at the BioQUEST 2016 Summer Workshop

    Keywords: OERcollaborative writing

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    Calculating Lifetime Cancer Risk Resulting from DNA Replication
    An expanded case study adapted from an HHMI Data Point on Cell Division and Cancer Risk using Figure 1 from Tomasetti, C. and Vogelstein, B. (2015).

    Keywords: cancerScientific ProcessStatistics and MathScientific Methodologybiology of cellscell growth and divisionHigh School

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    Undergraduate Research Experiences in Computational Science at a Community College
    Resource from the 2015 BioQUEST Summer Workshop

    Keywords: computer simulationscomputational modelInterdisciplinary STEMcomputational toolscommunity colleges

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    Mapping Coral Bleaching Modified with NOAA and Authentic Bleaching data
    Students access NOAA data to conduct an analysis to look at differences between locations in heat stress and ultimately the amount of coral bleaching in 2005

    Keywords: ecologyBiodiversityclimateScientific ProcessStatistics and Mathecosystemsearth and environmenthuman impacts

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    Quantitative reasoning: Interdisciplinary STEM 21st century reasoning modality
    Resource from the 2015 BioQUEST Summer Workshop

    Keywords: stemQuantitative reasoning

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    Open science, open data, open source projects for undergraduate research experiences
    Resource from the 2015 BioQUEST Summer Workshop
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    Assessment of Science Inquiry
    Resource from the 2015 BioQUEST Summer Workshop

    Keywords: assessmentconceptsSoTL

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    Cancer Discovery Activities
    These two hands-on activities are based on a Howard Hughes Medical Institute 2013 Holiday Lectures on Science video (http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/cancer-genetic-disease-video-highlights)...

    Keywords: geneticsResources @ HHMI - BioInteractiveorganismal biologyneurosciencegenomicscancergenetic basis of diseasebiology of cellsHigh School

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    Cell Division and Cancer Risk Data Point
    Cancer is typically attributed to hereditary and environmental factors, but these only explain a fraction of overall cancer risk. This activity explores a third factor.

    Keywords: Resources @ HHMI - BioInteractivecancerScientific ProcessStatistics and MathScientific Methodologybiology of cellscell growth and divisionHigh School

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    Coral Bleaching Mapping Activity
    This is a classroom activity in which students use authentic data to assess the threat of coral bleaching around the world. It supports the 2014 Holiday Lectures on Science video featuring Dr....

    Keywords: ecologyResources @ HHMI - BioInteractiveBiodiversityclimateScientific ProcessStatistics and Mathecosystemsearth and environmenthuman impactsHigh School

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    Winter is Coming! Data Nuggets Module - Adapted for Preservice Elementary Teachers
    Adaptation of Data Nuggets Module Winter is Coming! for an Elementary Education Science Methods Course

    Keywords: teacher educationscience teacher preparationData Nuggetmiddle grades (4-9)

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    Deadly Windows Data Nuggets Module - Adapted for Preservice Elementary Teachers
    Adaptation of Data Nuggets Module Deadly Windows for an Elementary Education Science Methods Course

    Keywords: teacher educationDataNuggetsscience teacher preparationmiddle grades (4-9)

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    Winter Is Coming Data Nugget for AP Biology Big Ideas
    This Data Nugget is a differentiated classroom resource focusing on how a plant species fitness is affected by different climates.

    Keywords: Evolutionbiologyonlinequantitative skillsAP BiologyDual Enrollment Science with High Schools

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    Map Your Hazards! – Assessing Hazards, Vulnerability and Risk
    The Map Your Hazards module provides students an interactive mechanism to engage in place-based exploration of natural hazards, social vulnerability, risk and the factors that shape their...

    Keywords: earth scienceenvironmental scienceglobal changenatural hazardsenvironmental studiesenvironmental sociologyResources @ InTeGrate

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    A Growing Concern: Sustaining Soil Resources through Local Decision Making
    This module addresses this need by providing students the opportunity to examine the differences between intensively managed agricultural landscapes (e.g. grazelands, conventional tillage) and...

    Keywords: sustainabilityenvironmental sciencegeologysoil scienceResources @ InTeGrate

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    Natural Hazards and Risks: Hurricanes
    Making the difficult decision to evacuate before a hurricane makes landfall can save lives and property. This two week module explores how hurricanes connect the ocean-atmosphere-terrestrial...

    Keywords: sustainabilityearth scienceOceanographyenvironmental scienceglobal changenatural hazardsatmospheric scienceResources @ InTeGrate

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    Climate of Change: Interactions and Feedbacks between Water, Air, and Ice
    In this two to three week module, students explore short-term climate variability resulting from atmosphere-ocean-ice interactions.

    Keywords: Oceanographyenvironmental scienceglobal changemeteorologygeologygeological hazardsResources @ InTeGrate

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    Interactions between Water, Earth’s Surface, and Human Activity
    This two-week (~10-hour) module focuses on water and its importance to humans, both as a limited resource and in shaping Earth's surface.

    Keywords: earth scienceenvironmental sciencegeosciencewater resourcesResources @ InTeGrate

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    Environmental Justice and Freshwater Resources
    This 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.

    Keywords: sustainabilityenvironmental scienceglobal changeexamwater resourcesenvironmental sociologyResources @ InTeGrate

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