Teaching Materials (1-20 of 64)

1. Analyzing Data on Behavioral and Immunological Effects of Inflammation in Mice

   20 Aug 2024 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Cynthia J Downs

   SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry

   In this activity, students will learn about behavioral and immunological responses to a bacterial infection. The activity emphasized the host’s responses rather than bacterial manipulation of the...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/4907/?v=1

2. Learn genomics and bioinformatics through scientific thinking, creation and analysis (virtual and hands-on)

   11 Jun 2024 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Dr Pankaj Mehrotra

   University of the People, California, United States of America

   Nucleic acid are biological molecules composed of nitrogen-containing bases, phosphate groups, and sugar molecules. The complimentary chemical bonding results in formation of double stranded DNA....

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/4852/?v=1

3. Learn Biological Sciences and Physics through scientific process, creation, experimentation and analysis

   30 May 2024 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Dr Pankaj Mehrotra

   University of the People, California, United States of America

   Microbes remain attached and grow on various surfaces whether living or non-living. These surfaces provide differential growth substances for microbes to remain attached or grow. The differential...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/4823/?v=1

4. Breaking It Down: What Factors Control Microbial Decomposition Rates?

   15 May 2024 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Brian M. Connolly*¹, Nigel D'Souza², Naupaka Zimmerman³, John Zobitz⁴

   1. Gonzaga University 2. Gonzaga Univeristy 3. University of San Francisco 4. Augsburg University

   Demonstrating and modeling changes in ecosystem processes in the laboratory classroom can be logistically difficult and expensive. This complexity often leaves little time for students to generate...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/4752/?v=1

5. Graphing Techniques for Introductory Microbiology

   14 May 2024 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Arunachalam Muthaiyan

   University of New Mexico - Gallup

   This module will introduce the introductory microbiology students to graphing skills to visualize and interpret the data to investigate the effect of environmental factor (temperature) on bacterial...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/4793/?v=1

6. Learn Biological Sciences and Chemistry through cellular transport and concentration ( online and hands-on)

   14 May 2024 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Dr Pankaj Mehrotra

   University of the People, Pasadena, California

   Osmosis is a process by which by which solvent move from a region of lower solute concentration to region of higher solute concentration through a semi-permeable membrane. Cells utilize the process...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/4794/?v=1

7. Implementing an online module on microbe-plant interactions in the context of ecological disturbance for Microbiology and Biochemistry courses in India

   08 May 2024 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Arindam Mitra

   Adamas University, West Bengal, India

   This module explores tropical forest gap dynamics and helps students develop hypotheses about climate-related changes in plant-microbial interactions and was implemented in Microbiology and...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/4778/?v=1

8. Modeling Soil Fluxes with NEON Data

   06 May 2024 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By John Zobitz

   Augsburg College

   This activity is an exploratory activity to understand rates of change of soil carbon dioxide in different ecosystems using data provided by the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON,...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/4774/?v=1

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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

18. Hypoxia: A Case Study in R

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

    By Derek Sollberger

    Princeton University

    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

19. 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

20. 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