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1. Connecting Viral Pandemics to Ecological Population Growth Models

   16 Sep 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Parks Collins¹, Paul Strode²

   1. Mitchell Community College 2. Howard Hughes Medical Institute

   In this activity students use the HHMI Population Growth Models interactive to explore R0 for diseases and discuss the importance of connecting population ecology to current events like the...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2104/?v=1

2. When did I lose my legs? A limbless lizard tale

   11 Sep 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Patrick Kelly

   Leesburg High School

   Using oVERT project models students examine examples of extant traditional lizards, snakes and limbless lizards and create phylogenies based on trait and genetic data.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2102/?v=1

3. Examining the Physiology Behind the Symptoms of Lactose Intolerance

   28 Aug 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Melissa Haswell

   Davenport University

   This is a set of extension questions for the HHMI short film The Making of the Fittest: Got Lactase? The Co-evolution of Genes Video Activity.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2087/?v=1

4. Nature’s Flying Machines: The Evolutionary Relationship of Avian Form & Function

   28 Aug 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Melissa Haswell

   Davenport University

   In this series of activities, birds will be used as the model organism. The modules examine the connections between body form and function over time by investigating the relationship between avian...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2085/?v=1

5. Mini-Workshop August 14, 2020

   28 Aug 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Vinayak Mathur¹, Anne Rosenwald², Gaurav Arora³

   1. Cabrini University 2. Georgetown University 3. Gallaudet University

   We reviewed the materials available on Genome Solver (other lessons here) and described our new python pipeline for examining horizontal gene transfer and a new synteny lesson in detail.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2084/?v=1

6. Peek into Plant Diversity using Herbarium Specimens (Online!)

   20 Aug 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Katie Pearson¹, Natalie Love², Susan Mazer²

   1. Cal Poly State University 2. University of California, Santa Barbara

   This exercise introduces herbarium specimens and how they are used for research. Students contribute to specimen "digitization" using the citizen science platform Notes from Nature, and they work...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2068/?v=1

7. Lichens in Diverse Landscapes: EREN-NEON Flexible Learning Project

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

   By Danielle Garneau¹, Matthew Joshua Heard², Mary Beth Kolozsvary

   1. SUNY Plattsburgh 2. Winthrop University

   This project makes use of publicly-available datasets on lichen presence and abundance and wet deposition, paired with geospatial data on air quality, tree canopy cover, and locally collected field...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2066/?v=1

8. Mosquito Surveys Along Anthropogenic Impact Gradients: EREN-NEON Flexible Learning Project

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

   By Allison T Parker

   Northern Kentucky University

   This project explores the role of human land use and other environmental factors that affect native and invasive mosquito species distributions and the diseases that they can vector.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2064/?v=1

9. Backyard Beetles + Pollinators: EREN-NEON Flexible Learning Project

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

   By Kaitlin Stack Whitney

   Rochester Institute of Technology

   Students observe insect pollinators and other floral visitors in their backyards, or campus, or nearby natural areas to describe plant-pollinator networks and assess how the assemblages from their...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2063/?v=1

10. BSL-4: Authorized Personnel Only

    17 Aug 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Nicole Anthony

    Biological Sciences, Toronto District School Board

    National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science resource on the 2014 Ebola epidemic. This resource is also included in the NIBLSE Learning Resource Collection

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/795/?v=1

11. The Hidden Kingdom: Island Biogeography with Fungi

    12 Aug 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Erica F Kosal

    North Carolina State University at Raleigh

    In this activity, students will explore a dataset of fungi dispersal capabilities and colonizing success to test the predictions of island biogeography theory.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2060/?v=1

12. Flatten the Curve Course Module

    11 Aug 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Joanna Wares¹, Marcella Torres¹

    University of Richmond

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    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2044/?v=1

13. Plants We Eat: Learning Form and Function from Fruits and Vegetables

    10 Aug 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Katie Pearson

    Cal Poly State University

    This high school or undergraduate lab consists of four activities that guide students through learning about plant parts from the fruits and vegetables with which they are already familiar....

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2057/?v=1

14. Obesity - An Epidemic with Unexpected Causes, Consequences, and Complexity

    07 Aug 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Edward Freeman

    St. John Fisher College

    This dataset was collected from interviews conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. State by state data are provided to explore the interactions of education, income, and...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2052/?v=1

15. Pre-lesson: Introduction to BLAST

    05 Aug 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Anne Rosenwald¹, Gaurav Arora², Vinayak Mathur³

    1. Georgetown University 2. Gallaudet University 3. Cabrini University

    Genome Solver began as a way to teach undergraduate faculty some basic skills in bioinformatics; no coding or scripting is required. This pre-lesson introduces the BLAST tool.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1085/?v=2

16. Lesson VII - Synteny

    05 Aug 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Gaurav Arora¹, Anne Rosenwald², Vinayak Mathur³

    1. Gallaudet University 2. Georgetown University 3. Cabrini University

    The lesson teaches about synteny or the order of genes along a chromosome, which is useful for looking at orthologous genes between two species or strains.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1414/?v=3

17. Lesson III - Annotation

    05 Aug 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Anne Rosenwald¹, Gaurav Arora², Vinayak Mathur³

    1. Georgetown University 2. Gallaudet University 3. Cabrini University

    Genome Solver began as a way to teach undergraduate faculty some basic skills in bioinformatics; no coding or scripting is required. Lesson III introduces Annotation, or assigning meaning to all...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/856/?v=3

18. Atlas of Black Scholarship for Inclusive and Racially Diverse STEM Curricula – Volume I

    30 Jul 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Aparna Anandkumar¹, Ariel Moline², Pascale S. Guiton²

    1. Castro Valley High School & California State University East Bay 2. California State University East Bay

    The contributions of Black scientists to the advancement of STEM are poorly represented in course materials. Here, we provide an Atlas of Black Scholarship to help Life Sciences and Chemistry...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2022/?v=1

19. Graphing an Epidemic: West Africa Ebola Epidemic

    28 Jul 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Lois Bartsch

    Metropolitan Community College

    In this activity, students will explore how the Ebola virus outbreak occurred in West Africa through graphing prevalence, incidence and mortality data from the three major countries that were...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2013/?v=1

20. Creating Phylogenetic Trees from DNA Sequences

    22 Jul 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By HHMI BioInteractive

    This interactive module shows how DNA sequences can be used to infer evolutionary relationships among organisms and represent them as phylogenetic trees.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1999/?v=1