Resources (1-20 of 56)

1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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