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1. Integrating Community Ecology Into the Study of Parasites: Exploring the Effect of Host Behavior on Parasite Transmission Rates

   07 Aug 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Will H. Ryan¹, Christine M. Sestero*²

   1. University of Alabama at Birmingham and University of Montevallo 2. University of Montevallo

   Organismal life cycles are often presented as a set of facts to memorize in undergraduate biology courses. This approach is cognitively demanding for students and fails to convey how central life...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/3423/?v=1

2. Grappling with Graphs: New tools for improving graphing practices among biology students

   15 Jul 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Stephanie M. Gardner¹, Eli Meir², Joel K Abraham³, Ryan Baker⁴

   1. Purdue University 2. SimBiotic Software 3. California State University, Fullerton 4. University of Pennsylvania

   Poster on gathering information about undergraduate biology students' graphing practices and using this information to guide teaching of graph construction. Presented at the 2021 BIOME Institute.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2469/?v=1

3. Modeling an Ironman Race

   03 Apr 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Cameron Cook¹, Greg Wiggins², Suzanne Lenhart³

   1. Department of Mathematics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville 2. National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis, University of Tennessee, Knoxville 3. University of Tennessee

   In this activity students create a model that represents an Ironman race.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2293/?v=1

4. (Online) Figure of the Week: Skills for Interpreting Comparative Genomics Figures

   18 Jun 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Robert E Furrow

   University of California, Davis

   Students use their number sense to make observations and explain or guess at patterns shown, discussing in a weekly online Q&A forum.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/1937/?v=1

5. Figure of the Day: Identifying Ambiguity and Biases in Data Figures

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

   By Raisa Hernández-Pacheco

   The adaptation focuses on presenting figures with all the information in their axes. However, such figures present a medium level of quality to encourage students to discuss conceptually in groups...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/1856/?v=1

6. Who are You? What You Got?

   Collections | 18 Jul 2019 | Posted by Susan Meiers

   https://qubeshub.org/community/groups/summer2019/collections/individual-reports-for-problem-posing

7. Who are You? What You Got?

   Collections | 18 Jul 2019 | Posted by Susan Meiers

   https://qubeshub.org/community/groups/summer2019/collections/individual-reports-for-problem-posing

8. Figure of the Week: Environmental Data Analysis/Statistics Version

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

   By Jennifer Prairie

   University of San Diego

   Adaptation of Figure of the Day activity used on a weekly basis in an environmental data analysis/statistics course.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/1288/?v=1

9. Figure of the Day - Teaching Notes - Boersma

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

   By Kate S Boersma

   University of San Diego

   Teaching notes from my application of Figure of the Day in my BIOL305 Ecology lecture course for biology majors.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/1276/?v=1

10. Figure of the Week (Non-major's Biology)

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

    By Heather McGray

    San Diego City College

    Students use their number sense to make observations and come up with reasonable guesses or explanations for the patterns shown.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1270/?v=1

11. Additional Figures of the Day - Parasitology

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

    By Elizabeth Hamman

    St Mary's College of Maryland

    These additional figures were used in a Parasitology course (juniors and seniors) at Radford University.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1251/?v=1

12. Some Figures of the Day for Microbiology

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

    By Polly Parks

    El Camino College

    Students use their number sense to make observations and come up with reasonable guesses or explanations for the patterns shown. These are some specifically for microbiology.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1244/?v=1

13. Figure of the Day - Adapted for Non-Majors

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

    By Crystal Peirce

    Harper College

    Students use their number sense to make observations and come up with reasonable guesses or explanations for the patterns shown.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1165/?v=1

14. Figure of the Day: Disease version

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

    By Arietta Fleming-Davies

    QUBES; Radford University

    Students use their number sense to make observations and come up with reasonable guesses or explanations for the patterns shown. Forked version with all infectious disease graphs.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/934/?v=1

15. Figure of the Day - Ecology additions

    16 Oct 2018 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Kristine Grayson

    University of Richmond

    Used in an Integrated Biological Principles II Class (Intro to Ecology/Evolution/Physiology) at University of Richmond

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/809/?v=1

16. Figure of the Day

    03 Oct 2018 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Arietta Fleming-Davies¹, Jeremy M Wojdak²

    1. University of San Diego 2. Radford University

    Students use their number sense to make observations and come up with reasonable guesses or explanations for the patterns shown.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/618/?v=1

17. Modification to What do Trees Know about the Rain

    17 Dec 2017 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Kristen Kaczynski

    California State University - Chico

    Use of the tree ring data vs. precipitation to discuss how trees respond to drought

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/196/?v=1

18. Sketching the Derivative of a Function

    Collections | 21 Jun 2016 | Posted by Timothy John Beaulieu

    https://qubeshub.org/community/groups/calculus/collections/derivatives

19. Function Graph reference

    Collections | 21 Jun 2016 | Posted by Timothy John Beaulieu

    https://qubeshub.org/community/groups/calculus/collections/graphs-and-data

20. Calculus From Graphical, Numerical, and Symbolic Point of View

    Collections | 16 Jun 2016 | Posted by Timothy John Beaulieu

    https://qubeshub.org/community/groups/calculus/collections/text-books