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1. Science Behind the Lesson: It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's Biomechanics!

   29 Aug 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Danielle Ingle*¹, Ryan Bruellman¹, Erick Espana¹, Katherine Galloway¹, Tanner Anderson¹, Tricia L. Meredith¹, Marianne E. Porter¹

   Florida Atlantic University

   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...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2733/?v=1

2. It's a bird! It's a plane! It's biomechanics!

   29 Aug 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Danielle Ingle*¹, Ryan Bruellman¹, Erick Espana¹, Katherine Galloway¹, Tanner Anderson¹, Tricia L. Meredith¹, Marianne E. Porter¹

   Florida Atlantic University

   Biomechanics is a discipline that draws from physics and engineering principles to understand the movement and structure of living organisms. It is highly interdisciplinary in nature and can be...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2658/?v=1

3. Exaggerated Traits and Breeding Success in Widowbirds

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

   By Katie Northcutt

   Mercer University

   Teaching Notes on the Exaggerated Traits and Breeding Success in Widowbirds

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/1174/?v=1

4. Exaggerated Traits and Breeding Success in Widowbirds

   12 Nov 2018 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By J. Phil Gibson

   University of Oklahoma

   National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science- this interrupted case focuses on sexual selection in widowbirds.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/925/?v=1