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  1. Biological Diversity in Wetlands: Applying the Scientific Method

    04 Jan 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Orissa Moulton

    Texas A & M University Galveston

    An introduction to the Scientific Method for Introductory Biology students using plant and animal richness and environmental data from ephemeral ponds and permanent wetlands.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/997/?v=1

  2. Climate Change, Phenology, and Community Interactions: Helping students explore the complexity of changing ecosystems

    12 Dec 2018 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By John Doudna

    Lansing Community College

    Students explore findings from long-term studies of migrating and hibernating animals at high elevation. Students then use this understanding to explore the phenology of species and possible...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/953/?v=1

  3. Closing the Gap in the Open Educational Resources (OER) Life Cycle for Using Research Data in the Ecology Classroom

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

    By Kristine Grayson1, Kaitlin Bonner2, Arietta Fleming-Davies3, Ben Wu4, Raisa Hernández-Pacheco5

    1. University of Richmond 2. St. John Fisher College 3. QUBES; Radford University 4. Texas AM University 5. California State University, Long Beach

    Poster presented at the 2018 meeting of the Ecological Society of America on gaps in the curriculum cycle for open educational resources (OER) and our work supporting sharing and adaptation of...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2218/?v=1

  4. Data Management Adaptation: Correlating Forest Community Dynamics to Climate

    19 Dec 2018 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Sarah McCarthy-Neumann

    Alma College

    Students use vegetation structure data from the National Ecological Observatory Network to understand necessary steps of data management from data collection to data analysis by correlating...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/959/?v=1

  5. DIG into Data for the Biology Classroom

    19 Jun 2018 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Kaitlin Bonner1, Arietta Fleming-Davies2, Kristine Grayson3, Raisa Hernández-Pacheco3

    1. St. John Fisher College 2. QUBES; Radford University 3. University of Richmond

    Session presentation on ecological data-centric teaching modules at the 2018 QUBES/BioQUEST Summer Workshop

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/658/?v=1

  6. Environment-Richness Relationships in Ephemeral and Permanent Wetlands: Guided Inquiry with Graph Interpretation (Abstract) | TIEE

    12 Jun 2018 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Amanda M Little

    University of Wisconsin-Stout

    An introduction to linear models using plant and animal richness-environment relationships in ephemeral ponds and permanent wetlands.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/384/?v=1

  7. Facilitating the implementation and adaptation of data-centric teaching resources by closing gaps in the Open Education Resource (OER) lifecycle

    18 Jul 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Kaitlin Bonner1, Arietta Fleming-Davies2, Kristine Grayson3, Ben Wu4, Raisa Hernández-Pacheco3

    1. St. John Fisher College 2. QUBES; Radford University 3. University of Richmond 4. Texas AM University

    Presentation on data-centric open educational resources given at the 2019 UBER-GRC

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1361/?v=1

  8. Investigating Leaf Litter Decomposition and Invertebrate Communities in Streams

    12 Jun 2018 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Alida Janmaat

    University of the Fraser Valley

    Students utilize the provided dataset to engage in an open-inquiry project on the impacts of abiotic and biotic factors on stream macroinvertebrate communities and/or leaf litter decomposition.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/383/?v=1

  9. Investigating Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) Ecologies Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) (Abstract) | TIEE

    12 Jun 2018 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Maruthi Bhaskar

    Texas Southern University

    Identifying, mapping and understanding the magnitude and the spatial prevalence of the Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) such as chlamydia and gonorrhea diseases. Analyzing the spatial trends of...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/423/?v=1

  10. Modification of "The Effect of Climate Change on Butterfly Phenology" module by Linton et al.

    30 May 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Kaitlin Stack Whitney

    Rochester Institute of Technology

    This is a modification of the Linton et al. module in TIEE Volume 13. Students use data from digitized museum records of butterfly specimens in a modification with no homework (lab/workshop format)...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1163/?v=1

  11. Painting turtles: an introduction to species distribution modeling in R

    12 Jun 2018 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Anna Carter

    Iowa State University

    This module uses R software to introduce students to the process of accessing databases and building species distribution models based on occurrence records.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/378/?v=1

  12. Parasites -- They're what's for dinner: Investigating the role of parasites in aquatic food webs

    12 Jun 2018 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Sarah Orlofske

    Northeastern Illinois University

    Use a well-resolved food web database from a freshwater wetland ecosystem in central California to explore how parasites influence community properties and learn how food webs are constructed and...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/422/?v=1

  13. The Biology of Climate Change: The effects of a changing climate on migrating and over-wintering species at a high-elevation field station

    12 Jun 2018 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Carrie Wu1, Amy Ellwein2

    1. University of Richmond 2. Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory

    Students evaluate weather and phenology data sets spanning 40+ years from a high-elevation field station in the Colorado Rocky Mountains, to test predictions about the effects of climate change on...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/192/?v=1

  14. The Effect of Climate Change on Butterfly Phenology

    12 Jun 2018 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Debra Linton1, Anna Monfils1, Molly Phillips2, Elizabeth Ellwood3

    1. Central Michigan University 2. Florida Museum of Natural History 3. La Brea Tar Pits & Museum

    In this module, students explore changes in butterfly phenology through the use of natural history collections data.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/469/?v=1

  15. The Effect of Climate Change on Butterfly Phenology

    21 May 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Valerie Greene

    Diablo Valley College

    In this module, students explore changes in butterfly phenology through the use of natural history collections data. The resource I have modified is a pptx presentation to introduce the background...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1215/?v=1

  16. The Effect of Climate Change on Butterfly Phenology

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

    By Risa Cohen

    In this module, students explain the importance of collections in scientific research, manipulate data in a spreadsheet program, create properly plotted and labeled graphs, analyze data to test...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1876/?v=1

  17. The Effect of Climate Change on Butterfly Phenology - Intro Environmental Science

    01 Jun 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Megan Kelly

    Arrupe College of Loyola University Chicago

    In this module, students practice interpreting the relationship between variables before exploring changes in butterfly phenology through the use of natural history collections data.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1266/?v=1

  18. The nose knows: How tri-trophic interactions and natural history shape bird foraging behavior

    12 Jun 2018 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Kaitlin Bonner1, Gregory Cunningham1

    St. John Fisher College

    Students investigate the role of olfaction and infochemicals on bird foraging behavior through three different quantitative modules. In this module students create graphs, generate statistics, draw...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/470/?v=1

  19. The nose knows: How tri-trophic interactions and natural history shape bird foraging behavior. An introduction to statistical analysis in animal behavior research

    20 Dec 2018 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Julia Burrows

    Students investigate the role of olfaction and infochemicals on bird foraging behavior through two different quantitative activities where they generate hypotheses, create figures, conduct data...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/973/?v=1

  20. The nose knows: How tri-trophic interactions and natural history shape bird foraging behavior. Introduction to data visualization.

    28 May 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By pamela scheffler

    Students investigate the role of olfaction and infochemicals on bird foraging behavior.. In this module students learn to analyze and present graphic data in ways that simplify interpretation.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1221/?v=1