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1. Checking Normality in R with swirl

   13 Jan 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Bill Morgan

   The College of Wooster

   How to use the "three-prong" approach to check for normality

   https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1740/?v=1

2. Following the Data - PowerPoint Addition to Module

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

   By Darlene Panvini

   Belmont University

   This PowerPoint presentation guides instructors and students through the key background information for the module.

   https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1736/?v=1

3. BLAST Exercises for Analyzing Cloning Results

   09 Jan 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Erin R. Morris

   Baker University

   Genome Solver began as a way to teach undergraduate faculty some basic skills in bioinformatics; no coding or scripting is required. These activities have modified Lesson 1: Introduction to Genome...

   https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1734/?v=1

4. Island Biogeography

   01 Jan 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Daniel Lauer¹, Emily Weigel¹

   Georgia Institute of Technology

   The students will practice the basic code to test MacArthur and Wilson’s (1967) Island Biogeography model, focusing on how island size, distance, and perturbation affect species numbers.

   https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1562/?v=1

5. Data Analysis and Cancer

   18 Dec 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Lynn Marie Diener

   Mount Mary University

   This is a flipped classroom approach, students will learn the basic content about cell-signaling, p53, and transcription factors before class. During class students will focus on data analysis...

   https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1559/?v=1

6. Analyzing current and past climate data

   18 Dec 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Sarah Beth Cadieux

   Rensselaer Polytechnic Institue

   Students analyze current and past temperature and carbon dioxide data in order to interpret how current climate change is related to climate over the past 450,000 years. Objectives: •Are global...

   https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1558/?v=1

7. Mosquito Vector Ecology of the East Coast using NEON

   16 Dec 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Courtney Campany¹, David Kang²

   1. Shepherd University 2. Cornell University

   This data module examines the relationship between mosquito vector ecology and climate across the east coast of the United States. The module is designed to merge core concepts in ecology with...

   https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1552/?v=1

8. Teaching Population Dynamics with Data and HHMI BioInteractive

   16 Nov 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Abby Kula¹, Kristine Grayson²

   1. Mount St. Mary’s University 2. University of Richmond

   Presented at NABT 2019, we demonstrate how the Population Dynamics Click & Learn resource can be customized for any organism - using the Lionfish invasion as an example

   https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1474/?v=1

9. A Curious Display

   28 Oct 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Margaret Waterman¹, Brandon Call, Sandi Connelly², Kristin Jenkins³, Sam Catherine Johnston⁴, Vedham Karpakakunjaram⁵, Viet Le⁶, Hayley Orndorf⁷, Melissa Skyer⁸, Barbara Spiecker⁹

   1. Southeast Missouri State University 2. Rochester Institute Of Technology 3. BioQUEST 4. CAST Inc. 5. Montgomery College 6. Rochester Institute of Technology 7. University of Pittsburgh 8. National Technical Institute for the Deaf at Rochester Institute of Technology 9. Oregon State University

   Case study on genetically modified organisms

   https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1452/?v=1

10. Gelin’: Gel Electrophoresis Simulation

    24 Oct 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Beyond Benign

    Students will understand how DNA is separated into a fingerprint by using a chromatography activity to simulate gel electrophoresis.

    https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1448/?v=1

11. Lesson V - Phylogenetics

    22 Oct 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Anne Rosenwald¹, Gaurav Arora², Vinayak Mathur³

    1. Georgetown University 2. Gallaudet University 3. Cabrini University

    Genome Solver began as a way to teach undergraduate faculty some basic skills in bioinformatics; no coding or scripting is required. Lesson V is an introduction to Phylogenetics.

    https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/858/?v=2

12. Lesson IV - Comparative Genomics

    10 Oct 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Anne Rosenwald¹, Gaurav Arora², Vinayak Mathur³

    1. Georgetown University 2. Gallaudet University 3. Cabrini University

    Genome Solver began as a way to teach undergraduate faculty some basic skills in bioinformatics; no coding or scripting is required. Lesson IV, Comparative Genomics, discusses some of the tools...

    https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/857/?v=2

13. Lesson III - Annotation

    10 Oct 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Anne Rosenwald¹, Gaurav Arora², Vinayak Mathur³

    1. Georgetown University 2. Gallaudet University 3. Cabrini University

    Genome Solver began as a way to teach undergraduate faculty some basic skills in bioinformatics; no coding or scripting is required. Lesson III introduces Annotation, or assigning meaning to all...

    https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/856/?v=2

14. Modeling the lac Operon to Understand the Regulation of Gene Expression in Prokaryotes

    27 Sep 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Sam S Donovan

    University of Pittsburgh

    This resource is a recitation activity designed for an introductory biology course in which students explore a lac operon simulation (https://qubeshub.org/resources/phetlacoperon).

    https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1427/?v=1

15. Quartile Tutorial

    11 Sep 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Claudia Neuhauser¹, David Phillip Schladt²

    1. University of Houston 2. University of Minnesota

    Numbers Count Excel resource

    https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1406/?v=1

16. Confidence Intervals Tutorial

    09 Sep 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Claudia Neuhauser¹, David Phillip Schladt²

    1. University of Houston 2. University of Minnesota

    Numbers Count Excel resource

    https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/754/?v=2

17. Optimal Foraging in Swirl

    15 Jul 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Mary Elizabeth McWhirt¹, Emily Weigel¹

    Georgia Institute of Technology

    This lesson centers around the marginal value theorem (MVT, Charnov 1976), which describes how animals should forage in patches. It serves as a pre-lab to teach MVT basics, vectors, ANOVA, and...

    https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1213/?v=1

18. Examining human impacts on tusk evolution in elephants using authentic research data using Serenity

    13 Jul 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Kaitlin Bonner

    St. John Fisher College

    In this activity students explore and analyze real, authentic research data paired with HHMI’s “Selection for Tuskless Elephants” video in a hands-on investigation of human impacts on elephant...

    https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1350/?v=1

19. Quantifying The Drivers and Impacts of Natural Disturbance Events – The 2013 Colorado Floods

    12 Jul 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Heather Susanne Zimbler-DeLorenzo

    Alfred University

    This lesson focuses on ways that scientists identify and use data to understand ecological disturbance events using data from five public datasets. The main lesson focused on interpretation of...

    https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1349/?v=1

20. Mars Colony

    11 Jun 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By James Burton Deemy

    College of Coastal Georgia

    In this exercise students work in groups to design an agroecosystem to feed a Mars Colony while accounting for space and energy transfer limitations.

    https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1296/?v=1