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1. 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

2. Island Frogs

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

   By James Burton Deemy

   College of Coastal Georgia

   This is an exercise in island biogeography that allows students to reconstruct splits in the evolutionary history of several hypothetical frog species.

   https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1295/?v=1

3. A Fun Introductory Command Line Exercise: Next Generation Sequencing Quality Analysis with Emoji!

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

   By Rachael St. Jacques¹, Max Maza¹, Sabrina Robertson², Guoqing Lu³, Andrew Lonsdale⁴, Ray A Enke⁵

   1. Department of Biology, James Madison University 2. Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 3. Department of Biology and School of Interdisciplinary Informatics, University of Nebraska Omaha 4. ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Cell Walls, Melbourne University 5. James Madison University

   This resource is a fun computer-based intro to command line programming. The activity takes FASTQ NGS data files and runs a fun program called FASTQE.

   https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1092/?v=2

4. Intro to BIOMAAP - Highlander teacher notes

   31 May 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Hannah Callender Highlander

   University of Portland

   How I implemented these materials

   https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1261/?v=1

5. Plant Defenses and Bioprospecting Mini-case Study

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

   By John Anthony Barone

   Columbus State University

   This narrative mini-case study for use in undergraduate ecology courses reviews plant defense theory within the context of bioprospecting. Students learn about factors affecting plant defenses and...

   https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1235/?v=1

6. AVIDA exercise on the role of mutation in evolution

   21 May 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By William Beachly

   Hastings College

   A tested exercise at the college freshmen level using AVIDA-Ed to generate and test a hypothesis about the relationship between mutation rate and the probability of evolving a useful function in...

   https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1224/?v=1

7. Intro to BIOMAAP - Student Math Anxiety Overview

   21 May 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Paige F.B. Ferguson

   University of Alabama

   This presentation is intended as a stand alone 45 minutes-1 hour presentation to give students general information on math anxiety and a few strategies to try on their own.

   https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1223/?v=1

8. Investigating human impacts on local Hawaiian stream ecology

   20 May 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By pamela scheffler

   Students learn about stream ecology on the island of Hawaii using data available through USGS and University of Hawaii websites and develop an understanding for potential stream changes due to...

   https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1222/?v=1

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

   17 May 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/1220/?v=1

10. Working with Datasets in R swirl

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

    By Caitlin Hicks Pries

    Dartmouth College

    The goal of this lesson is to learn how to import datasets into R, understand variable types, make adjustments to variables, perform basic calculations, and begin data visualization. The exercise...

    https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1202/?v=1

11. Sampling Distributions and Null Distributions: two swirl lessons in R

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

    By Rachel Hartnett

    Oklahoma State University

    There are two complementary lessons. The first covers how sampling distributions are made and ID's their key properties. The second covers how null distributions and how the test statistic of a...

    https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1195/?v=1

12. Ancient Insects

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

    By Susan Butts¹, Talia Karim², Chris Norris¹

    1. Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History 2. University of Colorado, Boulder

    Create a gallery of fossil organisms and identify distinctive body parts (wings, suckers, modified appendages) from the collection. Analyze and interpret these features to predict what type of...

    https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1169/?v=1

13. Following the Data

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

    By Anna Monfils¹, Debra Linton¹, Molly Phillips², Libby Ellwood³

    1. Central Michigan University 2. iDigBio, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida 3. iDigBio

    The video and exercise provides insight into how researchers are using digital data resources to investigate biodiversity in prairie fen wetlands.

    https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1137/?v=1

14. Species Range Over Space and Time

    19 Mar 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Debra Linton¹, Anna Monfils¹, Libby Ellwood², Molly Phillips³

    1. Central Michigan University 2. iDigBio 3. iDigBio, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida

    In this module, students use data from natural history collections to look at range shifts related to climate variables over different time periods.

    https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1106/?v=1

15. Amylase Copy Number and Diet

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

    By Rebecca Orr¹, Ruth Buskirk², Kristin Harvey²

    1. Collin College 2. University of Texas at Austin

    An adapted module from HHMI Spreadsheet Tutorials using amylase data for students to gain data analysis and excel skills

    https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/308/?v=2

16. A Fun Introductory Command Line Exercise: Next Generation Sequencing Quality Analysis with Emoji!

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

    By Rachael St. Jacques¹, Max Maza¹, Sabrina Robertson², Guoqing Lu³, Andrew Lonsdale⁴, Ray A Enke⁵

    1. Department of Biology, James Madison University 2. Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 3. Department of Biology and School of Interdisciplinary Informatics, University of Nebraska Omaha 4. ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Cell Walls, Melbourne University 5. James Madison University

    This resource is a fun computer-based intro to command line programming. The activity takes FASTQ NGS data files and runs a fun program called FASTQE.

    https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1092/?v=1

17. Cell Aggregation and Sphere Packing

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

    By Lou Gross¹, Monica Beals¹, Susan Harrell¹

    University of Tennessee Knoxville

    This module introduces the calculation of packing density in the context of understanding cell aggregation and arrangement. It is intended for an introductory biology audience.

    https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1039/?v=1

18. Exploring the functionality of R

    23 Jan 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Austin Happel

    Colorado State University

    Students work with example data to generate a length-weight plot and use lm() to obtain regression coefficients. Base plot functions are used to plot both the data and the regression line.

    https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1024/?v=1

19. Evolutionary Ecophysiology swirl lesson

    23 Jan 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Nadia Aubin-Horth

    Université Laval

    Uses swirl to walk students through how to use R and analyze their own data.

    https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1023/?v=1

20. Two-Way ANOVA

    23 Jan 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Didem Ikis

    Towson University

    In this lesson, students will learn the necessary statistical terms to understand two-way ANOVA, how to visualize their data, how to perform two-way ANOVA and interpret their results, and how to...

    https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1020/?v=1