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Mysterious Occurrences: Representation, Resiliency, and Redundancy in Native Plant Populations
23 Apr 2024 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Rhea Ewing1, Rachel Hackett2, Anna Monfils3
1. RheaEwing.com 2. Michigan Natural Features Inventory 3. Central Michigan University
Meet Dr. Rachel Hackett, a conservation plant biologist at the Michigan Natural Features Inventory. We learn about Rachel's job and the restoration of threatened and endangered species. Rachel...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/4623/?v=2
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Mysterious Occurrences: Representation, Resiliency, and Redundancy in Native Plant Populations
30 Jan 2024 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Rhea Ewing1, Rachel Hackett2, Anna Monfils3
1. RheaEwing.com 2. Michigan Natural Features Inventory 3. Central Michigan University
Meet Rachel Hackett, a conservation plant biologist at the Michigan Natural Features Inventory. We learn about Rachel's job and the restoration of threatened and endangered species. Rachel provides...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/4623/?v=1
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Mysterious Occurrences Instructors Notes
30 Jan 2024 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Rhea Ewing1, Rachel Hackett2, Anna Monfils3
1. RheaEwing.com 2. Michigan State University 3. Central Michigan University
Answer Key associated with Mysterious Occurrences Module
https://qubeshub.org/publications/4624/?v=1
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What’s the DEAL – The Digital Encyclopedia of Ancient Life and Digital Atlas Apps
10 Nov 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Jonathan Hendricks1, Bruce Lieberman2
1. Paleontological Research Institution 2. The University of Kansas
The Digital Encyclopedia of Ancient Life and Digital Atlas Apps -- identify fossils and explore diversity and history of life on earth.
https://qubeshub.org/publications/2787/?v=1
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Biodiversity, Big Data, and the Fossil Record
25 Feb 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Joshua Zimmt1, Lisa White1
University of California Museum of Paleontology
In this lab, we will be making and testing hypotheses about how the biodiversity of groups of organisms may vary through time.
https://qubeshub.org/publications/2249/?v=1
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The Evolution (and Coevolution) of Flowering Plants Virtual Classroom
05 Feb 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Anna Monfils1, Debra Linton1
Central Michigan University
In this lab, you will explore the diversity of flower and fruit adaptations that have evolved to accomplish pollination and seed dispersal and you will investigate the coevolution of angiosperms...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/2251/?v=1
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Communicating with Data: Digital Data Resources
22 Mar 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Anna Monfils1, Debra Linton1
Central Michigan University
Students access, clean, configure, and standardize a dataset and create a relevant and scientifically valid data visualization to communicate science.
https://qubeshub.org/publications/1779/?v=1
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Biodiversity research using digitized, internet-based natural history collections
17 Dec 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Kaitlin Stack Whitney
Rochester Institute of Technology
Collections based research is a critical tool for organismal biology and biodiversity research. Yet natural history collections have a complicated past. This multi-class module examines the...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/1553/?v=1
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Species Range Over Space and Time
19 Mar 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Debra Linton1, Anna Monfils1, Libby Ellwood2, Molly Phillips3
1. Central Michigan University 2. iDigBio 3. iDigBio, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida
In this module, students use data from natural history collections to look at range shifts related to climate variables over different time periods.
https://qubeshub.org/publications/1106/?v=1
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Natural History Collections as Emerging Resources for Innovative Education
23 Oct 2018 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Joseph A. Cook, Scott V. Edwards, Eileen A. Lacey, Robert P. Guralnick, Pamela S. Soltis, Douglas E. Soltis, Corey K. Welch, Kayce C. Bell, Kurt E. Galbreath, Christopher Himes, Julie M. Allen, Tracy A. Heath, Ana C. Carnaval, Kimberly L. Cooper, Mark Liu, James Hanken, Stefanie Ickert-Bond
Natural history collections have the potential to help transform undergraduate science education from passive learning into an active exploration of the natural world.
https://qubeshub.org/publications/854/?v=1
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Natural History Collections as Emerging Resources for Innovative Education
24 Feb 2015 |
This resource has been updated - find the current version here:https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/854Article abstract:"There is an emerging consensus that undergraduate biology education in the United States is at a crucial juncture, especially...