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  1. Using Regression Models to Examine the Effect of Carbon Dioxide on Fluid pH

    29 Jan 2024 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Gracie King1, Alyssa England2, Daniel Douglas2, Stefanie L Holmes2, Breonna Martin3

    1. Nashville State Community College 2. Roane State Community College 3. Harford Community College

    In this activity students will use statistics and regression models to explore the effects of carbon dioxide on blood pH by measuring pH changes that occur over time as carbon dioxide reacts with...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/4621/?v=1

  2. Modified Grassy Narrows and Muskrat Falls Dam: Hypothesis Testing and t-Tests

    23 Feb 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Sharon Maureen Homer-Drummond

    Tri-County Technical College

    Methylmercury contamination within fish populations is an important toxin that affect human, animal, and environmental health, serving as a carcinogen (cancer-causing agent) and endocrine-disruptor...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/3657/?v=2

  3. Grassy Narrows and Muskrat Falls Dam: The Central Limit Theorem and a t-test

    09 Feb 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Paul Miller

    Everett Community College

    Students are introduced to concepts of sampling distributions and hypothesis testing using a simulation applet, elementary hypothesis tests, t-tests, and p-values as they compare a given fish...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/3679/?v=1

  4. Effect of the Intestinal Protein Snakeskin on the Lifespan of Fruit Flies: A Kaplan-Meier Survival Analysissource Draft (1)

    03 Feb 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Maila Hallare1, Iordanka Panayotova2, Anna Salazar2

    1. US Air Force Academy 2. Christopher Newport University

    In this activity, students perform the Kaplan-Meier survival analysis on raw data obtained from an experiment that explores the effect of overexpressing the Snakeskin (Ssk) protein on the lifespan...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/3670/?v=1

  5. Modified Grassy Narrows and Muskrat Falls Dam: Hypothesis Testing and t-Tests

    01 Feb 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Sharon Maureen Homer-Drummond

    Tri-County Technical College

    Methylmercury contamination within fish populations is an important toxin that affect human, animal, and environmental health, serving as a carcinogen (cancer-causing agent) and endocrine-disruptor...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/3657/?v=1

  6. Exploring Marine Primary Productivity with Descriptive Statistics and Graphing in Excel

    29 Jan 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Kristin Byrd

    Tarrant County College

    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...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/3643/?v=1

  7. Evolution of Tusklessness in African Elephants

    17 Aug 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Jennifer Buntz1, Jessica Ross2, Tony Weisstein3, Heather Zimbler-DeLorenzo4

    1. Central New Mexico Community College 2. Midwood High School 3. Truman State University 4. Georgia State University Perimeter Colllege

    The exploitation of African elephants in the form of ivory poaching is exacerbated by warfare. The affects of this anthropogenic evolutionary force on the African savanna elephant (Loxodonta...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/3503/?v=1

  8. Using Grassy Narrows in a Live Classroom with Clicker Questions and Interactive Histogram: Sampling Distributions, Probability, and Hypothesis Testing

    24 May 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Jonathan Andrew Akin

    Northwestern State University of Louisiana

    Students are introduced to concepts of sampling distributions, p-values, and hypothesis testing. Using both simulated and real data for methylmercury level in fish populations, students will...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/3249/?v=1

  9. Fitting Exponential and Logistic Growth Models to Bacterial Cell Count Data

    17 Dec 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Adam Rumpf

    Florida Polytechnic University

    In this activity, students will model a noisy set of bacterial cell count data using both exponential and logistic growth models. For each model the students will plot the data (or a linear...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2831/?v=1

  10. Linear Regression (Excel) and Cellular Respiration for Biology, Chemistry and Mathematics

    03 Dec 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Irene Corriette1, Beatriz Gonzalez1, Daniela Kitanska2, Henriette Mozsolits2, Sheela Vemu3

    1. Santa Fe College 2. Passaic County Community College 3. Waubonsee Community College

    Students typically find linear regression analysis of data sets in a biology classroom challenging. These activities could be used in a Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, or Statistics course. The...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2811/?v=1

  11. Exploring Marine Primary Productivity with Descriptive Statistics and Graphing in Excel

    02 Sep 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Marina McLeod1, Jennifer Olson1, Wendy Houston1

    Everett Community College

    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...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2747/?v=1

  12. Using Linear Regression Adaptation: Exploring Vector-borne diseases in an online classroom

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

    By Darcy Ernst

    In this adaptation students in online classrooms will use linear regression at home and in synchronous online time to analyze real data on vector-borne diseases and explore how environmental...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2504/?v=1

  13. Grassy Narrows and Muskrat Falls Dam: Hypothesis Testing and t-Tests

    28 Jul 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Alida Janmaat1, Pete Kaslik2, Randall LaRue Moser Jr, Kevin David Simpson, Heather Susanne Zimbler-DeLorenzo3

    1. University of the Fraser Valley 2. Pierce College 3. Alfred University

    Students are introduced to concepts of hypothesis testing using elementary hypothesis tests, t-tests, and p-values as they compare a given fish population for methylmercury levels (using real and...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2434/?v=1

  14. Choosing healthy data for healthy relationships: how to use 5-point summaries, box and whisker plots, and correlation to understand global health trends.

    21 Jun 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Andrea Huntoon1, John Doudna2, Pallavi Bhale3, Thalita Abrahão4, Alys Hugo5, Jennifer Lyon Adler6

    1. Fox Valley Technical College 2. Lansing Community College 3. Montgomery College 4. Georgia State University Perimeter College 5. Everett Community College 6. Maysville Community and Technical College

    This module utilizes a user-friendly database exploring data selection, box-and-whisker plot, and correlation analysis. It also guides students on how to make a poster of their data and conclusions.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2427/?v=1

  15. Big Data, Graphs, and Prediction

    17 Feb 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Jennifer Lyon Adler1, David Simon2, Emmanuel des-Bordes3, Joseph Esquibel4, mary miller2, Pradip Raj Aryal5, Vickie Flanders2

    1. Maysville Community and Technical College 2. Baton Rouge Community College 3. Blue Ridge Community College 4. University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison College 5. NMSU Carlsbad

    In this activity, students are introduced to graphing and modeling data in a step-wise fashion. Real data of covid-19 deaths over time are used to incrementally ask students to fit the data to...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2261/?v=1

  16. Why Cells Change Weight: Demonstrating Linear Regression Through an Osmosis Experiment

    10 Feb 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Ashley Lamb Galloway1, Stefanie L Holmes1, Ashley Morgan2, Mary Ann Sexton1

    1. Roane State Community College 2. Roane State

    In this activity, students will perform an experiment utilizing dialysis tubing to create cellular models to demonstrate the linear relationship between cell weight and time in varying tonicities....

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2247/?v=1

  17. Using Linear Regression to Explore Environmental Factors Affecting Vector-borne Diseases

    02 Sep 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Andy Adams1, Jessica A Adams1, John J. Bray1, Tami Imbierowicz1, Suzanne Lenhart2, Breonna Martin1

    1. Harford Community College 2. University of Tennessee

    In this activity students will use linear regression to analyze real data on vector-borne diseases and explore how environmental factors such as climate change or population density influence the...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2097/?v=1