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1. 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

2. 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

3. 3D breast cancer tissue reconstruction

   24 Aug 2018 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Jeremy M Wojdak¹, Kerri-Ann Norton²

   1. Radford University 2. Johns Hopkins University

   This module allows students to follow a researcher as she discovers new features of breast cancer tissue architecture, using 3D reconstructions of histological specimens.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/543/?v=1

4. Freezer Full of Fossils v2.0

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

   By Louise Mead¹, Michael James Wiser¹, Noah Ribeck², Fred Hingst³, Richard Schultz⁴, Richard Lenski¹

   1. BEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in Action, Michigan State University 2. University of California, Santa Barbara 3. Dewitt High School 4. St. Johns High School

   The Long Term Evolution Experiment started by Dr. Richard Lenski provides a rich dataset to help students explore concepts of fitness, replication, and adaption.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/642/?v=1

5. Decoding, Critiquing, and Creating a Graph from the Ground Up

   28 Feb 2018 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Kiersten Nicole Newtoff¹, HHMI BioInteractive

   Montgomery College

   Students decipher a published graph with little supplemental information and are given more details in pieces before producing a new graph that displays the data more effectively and is easier to...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/376/?v=1

6. Using: "Winter Is Coming! Can you Handle the Freeze?" In an Intro BIO lecture

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

   By Denice Robertson

   Northern Kentucky University

   I use Team Based Learning in this course, students are in permanent groups and work together on Challenge Questions each class after I give a short lecture. This Nugget was used in place of regular...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/329/?v=1

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   Valerie Andrea Lantz

   https://qubeshub.org/community/members/7195

8. Staying Alive: Extinction Risk: Introduction to Extinction and Extinction Bias

   09 Jan 2018 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Samantha Price¹, Peggy Schaeffer², Anna Thanukos³, Samantha Swauger²

   1. University of California, Davis 2. DryadLab 3. University of California Museum of Paleontology

   Data driven curriculum module from Dryad Digital Repository

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/275/?v=1

9. A Walk Through the Woods

   09 Jan 2018 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Jerome Chave¹, David Coomes², Steven Jansen³, Simon Lewis⁴, Nathan Swenson⁵, Amy Zanne⁶, Gaby Lopez-Gonzales⁷, J Ilic, RB Miller⁸, MC Wiemann⁹, Samantha Swauger¹⁰

   1. The Academy of Europe 2. Cambridge University 3. Ulm University 4. University College London 5. University of Maryland 6. The George Washington University 7. University of Leeds 8. University of California, Berkeley 9. University of Florida 10. DryadLab

   Data driven curriculum module from Dryad Digital Repository

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/274/?v=1

10. Cell Cycle and Cancer

    Collections | 19 Jan 2017 | Posted by Alice Tarun

    https://qubeshub.org/community/groups/hhmibiointeractive/collections/cancer-genomics

11. Using HHMI BioInteractive modules to link global warming, ocean acidification and coral reef health

    Collections | 19 Jan 2017 | Posted by Alice Tarun

    https://qubeshub.org/community/groups/hhmibiointeractive/collections/faculty-mentoring-network-products---2016

12. Linear Regression PowerPoint Presentation

    Collections | 09 May 2016 | Posted by James Vance

    https://qubeshub.org/community/groups/esa/collections/investigating-the-footprint-of-climate-change-on-phenology-and-ecological-interactions-in-north-central-north-america

13. Getting Started with R: An Introduction for Biologists

    Collections | 05 Jun 2015 | Posted by Wendy Jo Levenson

    https://qubeshub.org/community/groups/teaching_r/collections/books-about-using-r

14. Data Nuggets - Bringing Real Data into the Classroom to Unearth Students' Quantitative & Inquiry Skills

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    22 Jan 2015 | | Contributor(s):: MK Kjelvik, EH Schultheis

    Data Nuggets are narratives about real research, featuring the principal scientist, that include data students can analyze.   Right now they are aimed at K-12 students, but many topics covered are taught in college courses, and there is no limit to what mathematical or statistical concepts...