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Exaggerated Traits and Breeding Success in Widowbirds
12 Nov 2018 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By J. Phil Gibson
University of Oklahoma
National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science- this interrupted case focuses on sexual selection in widowbirds.
https://qubeshub.org/publications/925/?v=1
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Exaggerated Traits and Breeding Success in Widowbirds
09 May 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Katie Northcutt
Mercer University
Teaching Notes on the Exaggerated Traits and Breeding Success in Widowbirds
https://qubeshub.org/publications/1174/?v=1
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Exploring HIV Evolution
05 Aug 2016 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Sam S Donovan1, Tony Weisstein2
1. University of Pittsburgh 2. Truman State University
In this activity you will study aspects of sequence evolution by working with a set of HIV sequence data from 15 different subjects (Markham, et al., 1998). You will first learn about the dataset,...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/24/?v=1
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Exploring HIV Evolution
05 Jun 2017 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Sam S Donovan1, Tony Weisstein2
1. University of Pittsburgh 2. Truman State University
In this activity you will study aspects of sequence evolution by working with a set of HIV sequence data from 15 different subjects (Markham, et al., 1998). You will first learn about the dataset,...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/24/?v=2
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Exploring Population Change without Selection: Avida-Ed Lab Book Exercise 4
21 May 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Amy Lark, Cory Kohn1, Jim Smith1, Louise Mead2, Robert T Pennock1, Wendy Johnson
1. Michigan State University 2. BEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in Action
An introductory activity exploring how a population changes without natural selection using the Avida-ED simulation.
https://qubeshub.org/publications/1852/?v=1
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Exploring the Introduction of Genetic Variation by Random Mutation: Avida-Ed Lab Book Exercise 1
17 May 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Cory Kohn1, Amy Lark, Jim Smith2, Louise Mead3, Robert T Pennock2, Wendy Johnson
1. Keck Science Department, The Claremont Colleges 2. Michigan State University 3. BEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in Action
An introductory activity introducing the role of random mutation in generating genetic variation using the Avida-ED simulation.
https://qubeshub.org/publications/1840/?v=1
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Facilitating Scientific Literacy Through Writing: A Write-to-Learn Assignment for Large Introductory Undergraduate Biology Courses
16 Jun 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Ayuni W. Ratnayake1, Cindy Naw1, Karolyn Keir*1, Aarthi Ashok*1
University of Toronto, Scarborough
Write-to-learn (WTL) assignments have been used in a variety of disciplines to encourage conceptual learning and critical thinking in undergraduate education. These assignments focus on...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/4382/?v=1
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Finch Evolution Collection
21 Feb 2018 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By HHMI BioInteractive
Over the past four decades, biologists Rosemary and Peter Grant have documented the evolution of the famous Galápagos finches
https://qubeshub.org/publications/364/?v=1
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Frank Price
I'm a retired college biology educator and academic computing administrator. I've taught General biology, anatomy and physiology, evolution, human ecology and several non-majors courses. I...
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Furry with a chance of evolution: Exploring genetic drift with tuco-tucos
28 Aug 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Jeremy Hsu1, Mays Imad2, Kerianne M Wilson*3
1. Chapman University 2. Pima Community College 3. University of California Irvine
Genetic drift is an important mechanism of evolution, yet undergraduates often fail to understand how it leads to evolutionary change due in part to its random nature. This lesson plan describes a...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/2633/?v=1
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Gabriel da Silva Pescador
I'm an undergraduate Biological Sciences exchange student from Brazil with interest on scientific research. Since the beginning of college I have been trying to get in contact with...
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Gijsbert Werner
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Graciela Escudero
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Graphical Organizers as Course Road Maps: Using a geologic timescale in a history of life course
22 Aug 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Matt Davis
Yale University
Both major and non-major biology students lack understanding of important evolutionary events, how they are spaced in time, and how they relate back to the earth system. Graphical organizers like...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/2535/?v=1
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Greta J Binford
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Gretchen Beth Snyder
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Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium: a swirl resource
14 Jun 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Abigail E. Cahill
Albion College
Students will use swirl to understand Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. The lesson starts with observed numbers of individuals for each genotype, and students will work through a number of steps to...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/1920/?v=1
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Heather Jylen Axen
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Helping Students to Overcome STUMPS: Scientific terms undermined by meanings peripheral to science
20 Aug 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Kim Quillin
Salisbury University
Many terms and phrases that are ubiquitous in everyday use have very different meanings in science. As a result, biology students often hold prior conceptions that are difficult to change. In this...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/2518/?v=1
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Heslley Machado Silva
Heslley Machado Silva was coordinator of the Project Biology teachers’ conceptions of three LatinAmerican countries about human’s place in nature and the human mind, University Center ofFormiga/MG,...
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