Teaching Materials (1-10 of 10)

1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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