You are here: Home / Resources / Browse Resources

Open. Adaptable. Free.

Resources created by our members and partners.

The QUBES platform hosts hundreds of teaching materials, reference materials, and cloud-based software free to use and adapt using open Creative Commons licenses.

Text Search:
Applied Filters
    The Importance of Street Trees and Urban Avifauna: A lesson exploring the relationship between urban forest and foraging birds
    This module examines the relationship between street trees, urban avifauna, and socioeconomic gradients in the highly urbanized county of Los Angeles, California. Using edited data from a published...

    Keywords: conservationBiodiversityurbanizationGeneralized linear modelsavifaunaurban forestsocioeconomicsstreet treesnegative binomial regression

    978

    views

    651

    downloads

    0

    comments

    0

    adaptations

    Digging up history with a ‘real-life Indiana Jones’ Dr. Sarah Barber
    In this exciting talk, Dr. Sarah "Stacy" Barber discusses her exciting research covering: 1. Documentation of geological, hydrodynamic, and ecological change in the Indian River Lagoon, and 2....

    Keywords: human impactsarchaeology

    432

    views

    151

    downloads

    0

    comments

    0

    adaptations

    Green Infrastructure/Green Roofs (Project Eddie)
    Runoff in urban areas is an increasingly important issue when it comes to water quality. It is a major hydrologic issue in New York City, as urban infrastructure creates excess runoff and...

    Keywords: climate changeProject EDDIEWater cycle

    860

    views

    369

    downloads

    0

    comments

    2

    adaptations

    Prairie Eco Services (Project EDDIE)
    As densely populated urban areas continue to expand, human activity is removing much-needed greenspaces from our communities; in turn, we are also removing critical buffers that are needed to...

    Keywords: Project EDDIEWater cycle

    642

    views

    444

    downloads

    0

    comments

    0

    adaptations

    A Classroom Intervention to Reduce Confirmation Bias
    STEM students are often unable to recognize cognitive bias in their own disciplines, and simply describing cognitive bias to students has shown to be insufficient to improve critical thinking....

    Keywords: biasprocess of sciencemetacognitionConfirmation BiasCognitive Bias

    3841

    views

    444

    downloads

    0

    comments

    0

    adaptations

    Designing an Asynchronous, Self-Led Aquatic Ecology Field Trip
    Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and increasing need to teach students online, aquatic scientists are looking for ways to give students field experiences virtually. Asynchronous, self-led field trips...

    Keywords: observationecosystem structureexploration

    1337

    views

    231

    downloads

    2

    comments

    0

    adaptations

    Exploring Marine Primary Productivity with Descriptive Statistics and Graphing in Excel
    In this activity, students use real water chemistry data and descriptive statistics in Excel to examine primary productivity in an urban estuary of the Salish Sea. They will consider how actual...

    Keywords: statisticsecologydataExcelgraphingBiochemistryOceanographymarine ecosystemsmarine ecologydescriptive statisticslong-term datasetsmarineMicrosoft Excelmarine biologyplanktonOutliersMarine ScienceqbccUsing ExcelphytoplanktonCreate graphsInterpret graphsConcepts in Statisticslarge datasetexplaining statisticsusing statisticsPacific NorthwestSalish Seaprimary productivitywater chemistryestuarygraphing in Excelformulas in Excelchlorophylltime-series plotsocean

    1274

    views

    1269

    downloads

    0

    comments

    1

    adaptations

    Online Adaptation to "Gotcha! Which fly trap is the best? An introduction to experimental data collection and analysis"
    We present here a simple and engaging experiment capitalizing on the universal need to rid our homes of fruit flies to teach experimental design and analysis. In an earlier paper, we described an...

    Keywords: data analysisexperimental designolfaction

    1463

    views

    117

    downloads

    0

    comments

    0

    adaptations

    Squirreling from Afar: Adapting Squirrel-Net Modules for Remote Teaching and Learning
    The shift from face-to-face instruction to remote teaching and learning has proven to be a challenging endeavor for many reasons, including lack of time, resources, and inspiration. Lab courses,...

    Keywords: online learningbehavioral ecologyCUREsRemote teachingfield ecologySquirrelSquirrel-Net

    1147

    views

    162

    downloads

    0

    comments

    0

    adaptations

    Sorry to Eat and Run: A Lesson Plan for Testing Trade-off in Squirrel Behavior Using Giving Up Densities (GUDs)
    All animals need to find and compete for food, shelter, and mates in order to survive and reproduce. They also need to avoid being eaten by predators. Optimal foraging theory provides a framework...

    Keywords: ecologyanimal behaviorAnimal form and functionAnimal nutritionSquirrel-Net

    3091

    views

    610

    downloads

    0

    comments

    0

    adaptations

    An Introduction to the Squirrel-Net Teaching Modules
    Although course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) are gaining popularity in biology, most are designed for benchwork-based laboratory courses while few focus on field-based skills....

    Keywords: ecologybehaviortrade-offsScientific ProcessSquirrel-Net

    2657

    views

    254

    downloads

    0

    comments

    0

    adaptations

    Squirrels in Space: Using Radio Telemetry to Explore the Space Use and Movement of Sciurid Rodents
    Biotelemetry is used by researchers to track the interactions of animals with each other and the environment. While advancing technology has led to the development of numerous biotelemetry tools,...

    Keywords: DispersalHabitat selectionHome rangeSquirrel-Net

    1638

    views

    319

    downloads

    0

    comments

    0

    adaptations

    Squirreling Around for Science: Observing Sciurid Rodents to Investigate Animal Behavior
    Hands-on research experiences are important opportunities for students to learn about the nature of inquiry and gain confidence in solving problems. Here, we present an inquiry-based lesson plan...

    Keywords: foragingbehaviorbehavioral ecologySciuridSquirrelSquirrel-NetTrade-offVigilance

    2934

    views

    1038

    downloads

    0

    comments

    0

    adaptations

    Developing Data Literacy Skills and Connecting the Student Experience in the Classroom to the Community Through Biodiversity Projects
    Undergraduate education and long-term science literacy are enhanced by integrating data projects with public datasets and creating analysis summaries. Underutilized public datasets are often...

    Keywords: species richnessBiodiversitydisturbanceHabitat rangePopulation abundance

    2719

    views

    534

    downloads

    0

    comments

    0

    adaptations

    Exploring Primary Scientific Literature through the Lens of the 5 Core Concepts of Biology
    Biology students at the undergraduate level usually excel in knowing biological facts; however, they often struggle with connecting these facts to specific biological principles. In parallel,...

    Keywords: 5 core conceptsconnecting facts to principlesreading primary scientific literature

    1711

    views

    338

    downloads

    0

    comments

    0

    adaptations

    A Remote Introductory Biology Lab Using Backyard Birdwatching to Teach Data Analysis and Communication
    Asking questions, designing experiments, collecting data and interpreting those data, and communicating the results are some of the most important concepts an undergraduate biology lab can teach...

    Keywords: ecologydata analysisdata collection

    1592

    views

    500

    downloads

    0

    comments

    0

    adaptations

    Assessing Urban Biodiversity With the eBird Citizen Science Project: A Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) Module
    The eBird citizen science module takes advantage of technology tools and online resources developed by the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology (http://ebird.org) to achieve several learning...

    Keywords: datacitizen sciencecommunityBiodiversitySpecieshypothesishabitat

    3181

    views

    906

    downloads

    0

    comments

    0

    adaptations

    Teaching Biodiversity with Museum Specimens in an Inquiry-Based Lab
    In response to the growth of biology datasets and broad efforts to digitize data, an increasingly important skill for science students is the management and analysis of large datasets. We designed...

    Keywords: data analysisnatural historyphylogenyBiodiversitymammalsAllen's RuleBergmann's Ruleecogeographymuseum research

    2667

    views

    684

    downloads

    0

    comments

    0

    adaptations

    Science Behind the Lesson: It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's Biomechanics!
    Active flight is a specialized mode of movement found in insects, birds, and mammals. The anatomy, morphology, physiology, and ecology of flying taxa has changed over evolutionary time. Researchers...

    Keywords: EvolutionecologybatphysiologyAnatomybiomechanicsbirdFlightinsect

    2913

    views

    149

    downloads

    0

    comments

    0

    adaptations

    The impact of diet and antibiotics on the gut microbiome
    The goal of this article is to describe an active learning exercise that can be used in a variety of advanced microbiology courses, including bacterial physiology, ecology, or systems biology. The...

    Keywords: microbiomeenvironmental controlhost responsemetabolites

    2039

    views

    232

    downloads

    0

    comments

    0

    adaptations

    Close

    Home

    Search