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1. Obesity - An Epidemic with Unexpected Causes, Consequences, and Complexity

   07 Aug 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Edward Freeman

   St. John Fisher College

   This dataset was collected from interviews conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. State by state data are provided to explore the interactions of education, income, and...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2052/?v=1

2. Atlas of Black Scholarship for Inclusive and Racially Diverse STEM Curricula – Volume I

   30 Jul 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Aparna Anandkumar¹, Ariel Moline², Pascale S. Guiton²

   1. Castro Valley High School & California State University East Bay 2. California State University East Bay

   The contributions of Black scientists to the advancement of STEM are poorly represented in course materials. Here, we provide an Atlas of Black Scholarship to help Life Sciences and Chemistry...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2022/?v=1

3. Graphing an Epidemic: West Africa Ebola Epidemic

   28 Jul 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Lois Bartsch

   Metropolitan Community College

   In this activity, students will explore how the Ebola virus outbreak occurred in West Africa through graphing prevalence, incidence and mortality data from the three major countries that were...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2013/?v=1

4. NEON Data in the Classroom: Quantifying Spatial Patterns

   23 Jul 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Kusum Naithani

   University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701

   Students build on fundamental concepts of spatial patterns and combine this knowledge with the open-data from the National Ecological Observatory Network to quantify spatial autocorrelation and...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/1398/?v=1

5. Introduction to nucleotide sequence analysis and protein modeling in MEGA and PyMol using coronavirus SARS-CoV-2

   18 Jul 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Maria Shumskaya¹, Nicholas Lorusso²

   1. Kean University 2. Kean Univeristy

   Introduction into computational approaches in phylogeny and protein modeling based on coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (caused COVID-19 pandemic). Two self-guided tutorials for standard lab classes of 2.5...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/1796/?v=2

6. Climate-Induced Shifts in California Butterflies

   17 Jul 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Jessica Coyle

   A module in which students generate and test hypotheses about butterfly species’ response to climate change in the Central Valley and Sierra Nevada Mountains of northern California using publicly...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/1884/?v=1

7. Cleaning Biodiversity Data: A Botanical Example Using Excel or RStudio

   16 Jul 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Michelle Gaynor

   University of Florida

   Access and clean an open source herbarium dataset using Excel or RStudio.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/1964/?v=1

8. Remote sensing data processing – NEON airborne data

   10 Jun 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Yingying Xie

   Northwestern University

   Concepts of remote sensing and data logistics, and NEON remote sensing data are introduced. Students learn how to apply spatial data processing and visualization skills using R coding program to...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/1905/?v=1

9. Intro to Data Types and Graphing Lab

   09 Jun 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Stephanie Spera

   University of Richmond

   This is the third lab in an Introductory Physical Geography/Environmental Studies course. It introduces students to different data types (qualitative vs quantitative), basic statistical analyses...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/1903/?v=1

10. Cleaning Biodiversity Data: Excel

    09 Jun 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Debra Linton¹, Molly Phillips²

    1. Central Michigan University 2. iDigBio, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida

    Access and clean an open source polar bear dataset using Excel.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1899/?v=1

11. Too much of a good thing? Exploring nutrient pollution in streams using bioindicators

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

    By J. Stephen Gosnell

    Baruch College, City University of New York and PhD Program in Biology, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York

    Students use data on nitrogen and phosphorus levels in streams and macrobenthic insect biodiversity to consider issues of nutrient pollution and stream health while learning to filter, summarize,...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1883/?v=1

12. Caribbean coral reef structure and biodiversity - Comparing boosted regression tree & multiple regression approaches

    29 May 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Eric Womack

    Virginia Commonwealth University

    Creating and comparing boosted regression tree models to multiple regression models.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1870/?v=1

13. Introduction to Data Management, Life History, and Demography

    29 May 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Risa Cohen

    Learning Goals:•explain importance of data management•identify elements of an organized data sheet•create & manipulate data in a spreadsheet •calculate vital statistics using life tables•collect,...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1872/?v=1

14. Investigating human impacts on stream ecology: locally and nationally

    28 May 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Meghan Graham MacLean

    University of Massachusetts Amherst

    This is a modification of an original TIEE Module, investigating these questions: How does nutrient pollution impact stream ecosystems locally and nationally? How does land cover change impact...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1868/?v=1

15. Global Temperature Change in the 21st Century: An Introduction to Global Climate Models and Graphing in Excel (Adapted for Non-Majors)

    28 May 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Tamara Basham

    Collin County Commuity College District

    Students link human behavior in various climate change scenarios to predicted temperature outcomes at both local (their assigned Latitude) and global (Latitudinal trends) scales. This adaptation is...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1865/?v=1

16. Data management and introduction to QGIS and RStudio for spatial analysis

    22 May 2020 | Datasets | Contributor(s):

    By Meghan Graham MacLean

    University of Massachusetts Amherst

    Students learn about the importance of good data management and begin to explore QGIS and RStudio for spatial analysis purposes. Students will explore National Land Cover Database raster data and...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1858/?v=1

17. Investigating human impacts on stream ecology: locally and nationally

    18 May 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Erin Larson

    Alaska Pacific University

    This module is a modification of the Nuding and Hampton module in TIEE Volume 8. This modified module includes data from Alaska and is modified to be completed as an asynchronous lab in an online...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1851/?v=1

18. Sickle Cell Disease Case Study

    06 May 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Elizabeth Co

    Boston University

    A short film explores the evolutionary connection between an infectious disease, malaria, and a genetic condition, sickle cell anemia. The animation explores the genetic causes and biological...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1833/?v=1

19. Introduction to nucleotide sequence analysis and protein modeling in MEGA and PyMol using coronavirus SARS-CoV-2

    03 Apr 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Maria Shumskaya¹, Nicholas Lorusso²

    1. Kean University 2. Kean Univeristy

    Introduction into computational approaches in phylogeny and protein modeling based on coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (caused COVID-19 pandemic). Two self-guided tutorials for standard lab classes of 2.5...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1796/?v=1

20. Climate Change Module- Beck Modifications (Project EDDIE)

    01 Jan 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Catherine Beck

    Hamilton College

    Students explore how climate is changing from the recent record

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1563/?v=1