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This app draws on a large species-level dataset with metabolic, life history, and ecological traits of most living and recently extinct mammal species. Users can select and plot traits, fit linear models to the data, and query displayed datapoints.

Modeling the Mechanisms of Evolution

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25 May 2018 | Software (On-site) | Contributor(s): Jackie Matthes

Simulate population-level mechanisms of evolution: genetic drift, gene flow, and natural selection.

Avida-ED

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06 Oct 2017 | Software (Off-site) | Contributor(s): Robert T Pennock, Diane Blackwood

This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/874Avida-ED is an award-winning educational application developed at Michigan State University...

Radiant

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16 Sep 2015 | Software (On-site)

Business analytics using R and Shiny.

Citations

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27 Jul 2017 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Louise Mead, James Smith, Wendy Johnson, Michael Wiser, Robert Pennock, Amy Lark

We present an inquiry-based curriculum based on the digital evolution platform Avida-ED (http://avida-ed.msu.edu). We designed an instructional sequence and lab book consisting of an introduction to Avida-ED and a set of three lessons focused on specific evolutionary concepts. These served to...

Avida-ED Lab Book Summer 2017

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27 Jul 2017 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Wendy Johnson, Cory Kohn, Amy Lark, Louise Mead, Robert T Pennock, Jim Smith, Michael James Wiser

The Summer 2017 version of the Avida-ED Lab Manual includes the addition of an exercise that covers genetic drift (Exercise 4: Exploring Population Change Without Selection)

IMMERSION Video

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27 Jul 2017 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Alondra Torres-Navarro

Integrating Natural History Collections into Undergraduate Education: Creating the Resources and Growing the Community

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14 Nov 2016 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Anna Monfils, Libby Ellwood, Debra Linton, Molly Phillips, Joseph A. Cook, Joseph Kerski, Tracy Barbaro, Sam S Donovan, Karen Powers, L. Alan Prather, Rob Guralnick

This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/328Natural history collection specimens and associated data provide unique physical and virtual opportunities to engage students in the practice of science in authentic, place-based lessons. We...

DataCamp

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06 Nov 2016 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Drew LaMar

This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/913The Easiest Way to Learn Data Science OnlineMaster data analysis from the comfort of your browser, at your own pace, tailored to your needs and expertise. Whether...

Training In-Service Teachers to Think Deeply About Modeling in the Common Core Movement

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11 Oct 2016 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Talitha Washington

This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/242Over the years, I have conducted in-service teacher training sessions and workshops organized by the Capstone Institute at Howard University. My role has been to enhance teacher content...

A BioGraphy of Life: How Graph Theory Makes Mathematics Recognizable, Relevant, and Research-Rich in Biology Education

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11 Oct 2016 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): John R Jungck

This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/241Biologists use graphs extensively in ecology, evolution, genetics, developmental biology, and biochemistry: phylogenetic trees, food webs, pedigrees, genetic networks, metabolic pathways,...

A Framework for Modeling to Encourage Interdisciplinary Conversations

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11 Oct 2016 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Carrie Diaz Eaton

This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/209Here we present a framework for thinking about what models and modeling are, particularly to other disciplines. We encourage that differing disciplinary approaches are seen as part of a...

A Framework for Teaching Modeling to Biologists

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10 Oct 2016 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Drew LaMar

This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/210What are the modeling skills and metacognitive strategies of importance for the life sciences? In this talk, we describe a teaching and learning framework around modeling...

BIOQuest Summer Workshop 2016 – Bissell talk notes

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23 Jun 2016 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Ahrash Bissell

This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/325Session title:Distributed creation, community guidance, and OER development: current models and emerging practicesSession description:Open educational resources (OER) encompass teaching,...

50 years of Data Science

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23 Feb 2016 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): David Donoho

This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/912More than 50 years ago, John Tukey called for a reformation of academic statistics. In ‘The Future of Data Analysis’, he pointed to the existence of an as-yet...

AIMS: Dendroclimatology

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21 Dec 2015 | Teaching & Reference Material | Contributor(s): Stockton Maxwell, Jeremy M Wojdak

This resource has been updated - find the current version here: https://qubeshub.org/publications/544/The AIMS (Analyzing Images to learn Mathematics and Statistics) project was founded on the idea that students don't often care much about analysis until they care about...

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