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Course materials for Quantifying Environmental Justice
01 Jan 2024 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Jabari Jones
Bowdoin College
Course materials for Quantifying Environmental Justice, taught as Environmental Science 4201 at University of Minnesota, Morris in Spring 2023. Description:The concept of justice has received...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/4538/?v=1
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The Edge Effect
03 May 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Sean McNamara1, Kiersten Newtoff2, Kelly Livernoche2, Allison Bell, Jeff Leips3, Gina Wesley2, William Gretes4
1. Community College of Baltimore County 2. Montgomery College 3. University of Maryland Baltimore County 4. Howard Community College
This module has students venturing outdoors to take a 50m transect and collect abundance data on plants utilizing quadrats in both edge and interior environment. Mathematically the goals of this...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/4292/?v=1
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1999-Richard_Single-Different quotients-derivatives-and data through modeling with slime
02 Apr 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Richard Single
NA
In this article, I present an experiment that can be conducted in a calculus class to investigate the difference quotient and the derivative, using mathematical modeling with student-collected data.
https://qubeshub.org/publications/3939/?v=1
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Learning R for Biologists: A Mini Course Grab-Bag for Instructors
21 Mar 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Amanda D. Clark1, Laurie S. Stevison*1
Auburn University
As biology becomes more data driven, teaching students data literacy skills has become central to biology curriculum. Despite a wealth of online resources that teach researchers how to use R, there...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/3698/?v=1
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Microbiology Data Problems 2023
22 Feb 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Charles E Deutch
Microbion Research
This project focuses on the use of data analysis problems to introduce students to specific topics in microbiology and to give them practice in the interpretation of figures and tables of data....
https://qubeshub.org/publications/3693/?v=1
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Curvature and Maximum Permissible Speeds
26 Dec 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Adam Rumpf
Florida Polytechnic University
In this activity students will compute the curvature of a section of commuter rail and use it to determine a safe speed at which a train should can round the corner without tipping or derailing....
https://qubeshub.org/publications/3612/?v=1
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1-038-Ebola-ModelingScenario
14 Nov 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Lisa Driskell
Colorado Mesa University, Grand Junction CO USA
Students will use data published by the World Health Organization to model the 2014 outbreak of the Ebola virus in West Africa. We begin with a simple exponential growth model and move through the...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/3070/?v=1
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Pesticides in My Smoothie Bowl?
21 Aug 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Shuangying Yu*1, Scott M. Weir2
1. Central Piedmont Community College 2. Queens University of Charlotte
Teaching resources, especially active learning pedagogy, are scarce for toxicology compared to what is available for other disciplines. Ecological and human health risk assessment are...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/3461/?v=1
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Sexual Dimorphism CURE: Exploring Melanized Wing Patterns of Pieridae Butterflies
18 Aug 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Paula A Trillo1, Elissa Suphapun Sorojsrisom2, Carly N. Jordan3, Janice L. Krumm4
1. Gettysburg College 2. Columbia University 3. George Washington University 4. Widener University
Teach a Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) using digitized natural history collections data to test hypotheses on sexually dimorphic wing melanization patterns of Pieris rapae...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/3250/?v=1
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Hypoxia: A Case Study in R
27 May 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Derek Sollberger
UC Merced School of Natural Sciences
Aquatic ecosystems are home to a complex intersection of physical and biological factors and an intersection of natural and anthropogenic factors. In the Chesapeake Bay, low oxygen events have...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/3327/?v=1
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1-022-SpreadOfTechnologies-ModelingScenario
26 May 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Brian Winkel
SIMIODE - Systemic Initiative for Modeling Investigations and Opportunities with Differential Equations
We examine plots on the spread of technologies and ask students to estimate and extract data from the plots and then model several of these spread of technologies phenomena with a logistic...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/3319/?v=1
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1-018-LogisticPopModel-ModelingScenario
02 May 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Brian Winkel
SIMIODE - Systemic Initiative for Modeling Investigations and Opportunities with Differential Equations
We offer artificial (toy) and historical data on limited growth population situations in the study of protozoa and lead students through several approaches to estimating parameters and determining...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/2964/?v=1
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Learning Quantitative Genetics: Investigation of Genetic Control for Cold Stress Response in Plants
22 Feb 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Irina Makarevitch*1, Rae Goering1
Hamline University
Course-embedded undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) for students have been shown to increase students’ understanding of the process of science, affirm their scientific identity, and...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/2818/?v=1
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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
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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
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Online Adaptation to "Gotcha! Which fly trap is the best? An introduction to experimental data collection and analysis"
30 Aug 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Jenna Daypuk1, Michelle G. Eng1, Ian Black1, Danica Levesque2, Jesse Petahtegoose1, Mitchell Slobodian1, Athena Wallis1, Joël Dickinson1, Thomas J.S. Merritt*1
1. Laurentian University 2. École Secondaire du Sacré-Coeur
We present here a simple and engaging experiment capitalizing on the universal need to rid our homes of fruit flies to teach experimental design and analysis. In an earlier paper, we described an...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/2716/?v=1
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A Remote Introductory Biology Lab Using Backyard Birdwatching to Teach Data Analysis and Communication
29 Aug 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Jennifer J. Rahn
William & Mary
Asking questions, designing experiments, collecting data and interpreting those data, and communicating the results are some of the most important concepts an undergraduate biology lab can teach...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/2699/?v=1
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Teaching Biodiversity with Museum Specimens in an Inquiry-Based Lab
29 Aug 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Lisa L. Walsh*†1, Cynthia J. Giffen†1, Cody W. Thompson1
University of Michigan
In response to the growth of biology datasets and broad efforts to digitize data, an increasingly important skill for science students is the management and analysis of large datasets. We designed...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/2735/?v=1
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Gotcha! Which fly trap is the best? An introduction to experimental data collection and analysis
29 Aug 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Matthew D. Parrotta1, Joël Dickinson1, Thomas J.S. Merritt*1
Laurentian University
Collecting data from experimental observations is an important component of the scientific process; likewise, the analysis of the data is essential to understanding the observed trends and patterns...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/2650/?v=1
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Evaluating the Quick Fix: Weight Loss Drugs and Cellular Respiration
27 Aug 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Pamela L. Freeman1, Jennifer A. Maki1, Kara R. Thoemke1, Monica H. Lamm2, Clark R. Coffman2
1. The College of St. Scholastica 2. Iowa State University
One key to student success in introductory and cell biology courses is a foundational knowledge of cellular respiration. This is a content area in which students often harbor misconceptions that...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/2594/?v=1