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Dendroclimatology
24 Aug 2018 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Jeremy M Wojdak1, R. S. Maxwell1
Radford University
Dendroclimatologists can reconstruct climate records further into the past than written records, by examining tree rings. Students "reverse-engineer" this process by considering growth...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/544/?v=1
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Dendroclimatology
17 Sep 2018 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Jeremy M Wojdak1, R. S. Maxwell1
Radford University
Dendroclimatologists can reconstruct climate records further into the past than written records, by examining tree rings. Students "reverse-engineer" this process by considering growth rates of a...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/544/?v=2
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Downloading and Visualizing Project Data from the iNaturalist Database
03 Jun 2024 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Justine Doll1, Maria Baboi1, Mindi Summers1, Jana Vamosi1, Cristopher Albor1
University of Calgary
In this activity you will learn how to create a query, export, and download data from iNaturalist; load data into R; explore pollinator-plant interactions with R, and create heat map, bipartite,...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/4764/?v=1
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Earth Analytics Bootcamp Course
15 Oct 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Jenny Palomino1, Leah Wasser
Earth Lab - University of Colorado, Boulder
The Earth Analytics Bootcamp is a three-week introductory-level course taught by instructors in Earth Lab and is a part of the Professional Certificate in Earth Data Analytics - Foundations at CU...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/1438/?v=1
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Earth Analytics in R Course
15 Oct 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Leah Wasser
Earth Lab - University of Colorado, Boulder
Earth analytics is an advanced, multidisciplinary course that addresses major questions in Earth science and teaches students to use the analytical tools necessary to undertake exploration of...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/1439/?v=1
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Get Started With GIS in Open Source Python Workshop
15 Oct 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Leah Wasser1, Jenny Palomino1, Joe McGlinchy1
Earth Lab - University of Colorado, Boulder
There are a suite of powerful open source python libraries that can be used to work with spatial data. Learn how to use geopandas, rasterio and matplotlib to plot and manipulate spatial data in...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/1441/?v=1
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Histograms and Boxplots
21 Jan 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Suann Yang
SUNY Geneseo
This lesson, created for an introductory ecology course, focuses on helping novice R users to import a data file, apply base R plotting functions, and use R Markdown to generate a reproducible report.
https://qubeshub.org/publications/1019/?v=1
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Introduction to Earth Data Science Textbook
15 Oct 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Jenny Palomino, Leah Wasser
Introduction to Earth Data Science is an online textbook for anyone new to open reproducible science and the Python programming language. There are no prerequisites for this material, and no prior...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/1440/?v=1
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Investigating human impacts on stream ecology: Intro to R
08 May 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Kristen Kaczynski
California State University - Chico
This resource uses the Human Impact on Stream Ecology data set, background and questions and provides students an very general introduction to using R. Students perform basic summary statistics and...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/1144/?v=1
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Kinetics of a Highly Conserved Enzyme - Carbonic Anhydrase
27 Aug 2024 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Edward Orlando1, Stephen Miller2, Kathryn Monzo3, Lisa Feinman4
1. Howard Community College 2. University of Maryland Baltimore County 3. Montgomery College 4. Community College Baltimore County
This module contains exercises designed to introduce students to graphical representation of biological data. Students will explore the fundamental principles of enzyme kinetics including...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/4966/?v=1
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Leaf cutter ant foraging
24 Aug 2018 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Jeremy M Wojdak1, Justin Touchon2, Myra Hughey2
1. Radford University 2. Vassar College
This module introduces students to leaf-cutter ants in the rainforests of Panama. Students derive their own research hypotheses regarding ant foraging or allometric scaling relationships.
https://qubeshub.org/publications/542/?v=1
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Lindsay Alexandra Coome
https://qubeshub.org/community/members/8278
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Making Predictions with Linear Models: A Murder Mystery Case Study
31 May 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Miranda Chen Musgrove1, Lisa A. Corwin1, Andrew Martin1
University of Colorado, Boulder
This Swirl lesson will introduce two main concepts to students: 1) the idea of uncertainty around linear slopes versus individual values and 2) predicting values using linear models.
https://qubeshub.org/publications/2396/?v=1
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Marney Pratt
https://qubeshub.org/community/members/12436
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Methods from Kirby et al. 2019 (The Figure of the Day: A Classroom Activity to Improve Students' Figure Creation Skills in Biology) evaluating the effectiveness of the “Figure of the Day” graphical exercise
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23 Aug 2022 |
Posted by Suann Yang
https://qubeshub.org/community/groups/biographi/collections/quantitative-assessments
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Module 2: Transcription Part I: From DNA Sequence to Transcription Unit
25 Jul 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Maria Santisteban1, Alexa Sawa2
1. University of North Carolina - Pembroke 2. College of the Desert
This module illustrates how a primary transcript (pre-mRNA) is synthesized using a DNA molecule as the template. Students will learn about the importance of the 5' and 3' regions of the gene for...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/1990/?v=1
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Module 4: Removal of Introns from pre-mRNA by Splicing
25 Jul 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Meg Laakso1, Anne Rosenwald2
1. Eastern University 2. Georgetown University
In this module, students will learn to identify splice donor and acceptor sites that are best supported by RNA-Seq data, and use the canonical splice donor and splice acceptor sequences to identify...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/1992/?v=1
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Module 6: Alternative Splicing
25 Jul 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Leocadia Paliulis1, Anne Rosenwald2
1. Bucknell University 2. Georgetown University
This module explores how multiple different mRNAs and polypeptides can be encoded by the same gene. After completing this module students will be able to explain how alternative splicing of a gene...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/1994/?v=1
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Phenotypic plasticity and predation
24 Aug 2018 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Jeremy M Wojdak1, Justin Touchon2
1. Radford University 2. Vassar College
Students predict changes to tadpole morphology and coloration after considering characteristics of the predator species and the prey themselves then test their own hypotheses (typically with...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/545/?v=1
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Phenotypic plasticity and predation
29 Aug 2018 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Jeremy M Wojdak1, Justin Touchon2
1. Radford University 2. Vassar College
Students predict changes to tadpole morphology and coloration after considering characteristics of the predator species and the prey themselves then test their own hypotheses (typically with...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/545/?v=2