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Breaking It Down: What Factors Control Microbial Decomposition Rates?
15 May 2024 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Brian M. Connolly*1, Nigel D'Souza2, Naupaka Zimmerman3, John Zobitz4
1. Gonzaga University 2. Gonzaga Univeristy 3. University of San Francisco 4. Augsburg University
Demonstrating and modeling changes in ecosystem processes in the laboratory classroom can be logistically difficult and expensive. This complexity often leaves little time for students to generate...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/4752/?v=1
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Introductory Data Science Pipeline Activity – Yellow Fever and Global Precipitation
15 May 2024 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Mary Mulcahy
University of Pittsburgh at Bradford
Students follow the steps of a tiny data science project from start to finish. They are given a research question "Are the number of cases of yellow fever associated with global average...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/4785/?v=1
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Keep It Shrimple: An Adaptable Student-Driven Research Project for the Introductory Biology Laboratory
12 Apr 2024 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Miranda A. Karson†1, Liesl V. McCormick†*1
Pacific University
A challenge in introductory biology laboratory courses is to provide students with authentic, engaging research opportunities that allow them to take ownership of their experiments. We present a...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/4705/?v=1
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Outside the Norm: Using Public Ecology Database Information to Teach Biostatistics
26 Oct 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Carl Tyce1, Lara K. Goudsouzian*1
DeSales University
Biology students’ understanding of statistics is incomplete due to poor integration of these two disciplines. In some cases, students fail to learn statistics at the undergraduate level due...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/4528/?v=1
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SNAPSHOT SERENGETI: Analyzing Wildlife Ecological Relationships in an upper-level Ecology course
23 Jul 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Anne H Bower
Jefferson University
Two assignments were created to develop skills in ecological hypothesis testing, data analysis and interpretation using the Snapshot Serengeti and Gorongosa camera trap data and graphical...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/4266/?v=2
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SNAPSHOT SERENGETI: Analyzing Wildlife Ecological Relationships in an upper-level Ecology course
04 May 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Anne H Bower
Jefferson University
Two assignments were created to develop skills in ecological hypothesis testing, data analysis and interpretation using the Snapshot Serengeti and Gorongosa camera trap data and graphical...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/4266/?v=1
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The Edge Effect
03 May 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Sean McNamara1, Kiersten Newtoff2, Kelly Livernoche2, Allison Bell, Jeff Leips3, Gina Wesley2, William Gretes4
1. Community College of Baltimore County 2. Montgomery College 3. University of Maryland Baltimore County 4. Howard Community College
This module has students venturing outdoors to take a 50m transect and collect abundance data on plants utilizing quadrats in both edge and interior environment. Mathematically the goals of this...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/4292/?v=1
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Modified Grassy Narrows and Muskrat Falls Dam: Hypothesis Testing and t-Tests
23 Feb 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Sharon Maureen Homer-Drummond
AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellowships at NSF
Methylmercury contamination within fish populations is an important toxin that affect human, animal, and environmental health, serving as a carcinogen (cancer-causing agent) and endocrine-disruptor...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/3657/?v=2
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Grassy Narrows and Muskrat Falls Dam: The Central Limit Theorem and a t-test
09 Feb 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Paul Miller
Everett Community College
Students are introduced to concepts of sampling distributions and hypothesis testing using a simulation applet, elementary hypothesis tests, t-tests, and p-values as they compare a given fish...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/3679/?v=1
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Effect of the Intestinal Protein Snakeskin on the Lifespan of Fruit Flies: A Kaplan-Meier Survival Analysissource Draft (1)
03 Feb 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Maila Hallare1, Iordanka Panayotova2, Anna Salazar2
1. US Air Force Academy 2. Christopher Newport University
In this activity, students perform the Kaplan-Meier survival analysis on raw data obtained from an experiment that explores the effect of overexpressing the Snakeskin (Ssk) protein on the lifespan...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/3670/?v=1
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Modified Grassy Narrows and Muskrat Falls Dam: Hypothesis Testing and t-Tests
01 Feb 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Sharon Maureen Homer-Drummond
AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellowships at NSF
Methylmercury contamination within fish populations is an important toxin that affect human, animal, and environmental health, serving as a carcinogen (cancer-causing agent) and endocrine-disruptor...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/3657/?v=1
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Using Grassy Narrows in a Live Classroom with Clicker Questions and Interactive Histogram: Sampling Distributions, Probability, and Hypothesis Testing
24 May 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Jonathan Andrew Akin
Northwestern State University of Louisiana
Students are introduced to concepts of sampling distributions, p-values, and hypothesis testing. Using both simulated and real data for methylmercury level in fish populations, students will...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/3249/?v=1
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Modeling the Research Process: Authentic human physiology research in a large non-majors course
20 Aug 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Anna K. Strain1, Mary A. Williams1, Jane Phillips1
University of Minnesota
Laboratory experiences in large-enrollment introductory science courses often utilize “cookie-cutter style” laboratory experiences due to the relative simplicity of setting up the lab...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/2516/?v=1
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Grassy Narrows and Muskrat Falls Dam: Hypothesis Testing and t-Tests
28 Jul 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Alida Janmaat1, Pete Kaslik2, Randall LaRue Moser Jr, Kevin David Simpson, Heather Susanne Zimbler-DeLorenzo3
1. University of the Fraser Valley 2. Pierce College 3. Alfred University
Students are introduced to concepts of hypothesis testing using elementary hypothesis tests, t-tests, and p-values as they compare a given fish population for methylmercury levels (using real and...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/2434/?v=1
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Ferns are Everywhere
09 Sep 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Claudia Neuhauser
University of Houston
Using spatial fern population data in hypothesis testing
https://qubeshub.org/publications/753/?v=2
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Exploring how climate will impact plant-insect distributions and interactions using open data and informatics
06 Jun 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Wendy Clement1, Kathleen Prudic2, Jeffrey Oliver3
1. The College of New Jersey 2. University of Arizona 3. University of Arizona Libraries
This teaching module provides an entry point for students to learn about data science, open data repositories (e.g., citizen science data), and species distribution modeling to study the effects of...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/1286/?v=1
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Investigating Determinants of Richness in Ephemeral and Permanent Wetlands Using Linear Models in Shiny
21 Jan 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Kristofor Voss
Regis University
This resource seeks to provide a quantitative platform by which students can be taught about interactive effects using the TIEE module created by Little (2018). Key to the adaptation is the use of...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/1018/?v=1
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Investigating the effects of urbanization on bird biodiversity: Testing three biodiversity hypotheses using citizen science data
13 Jun 2018 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Jennifer Kovacs1, Ebony Gaillard2
1. Spelman College 2. University of North Carolina
Students generate predictions and test three hypotheses about how biodiversity is affected by urbanization over time using citizen science generated bird count data and land use data from 13...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/645/?v=1
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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