Teaching Materials (1-20 of 60)

1. 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

2. Graphing Techniques for Introductory Microbiology

   13 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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