Teaching Materials (1-16 of 16)

1. The Stomata Lab. What the past can tell us about our future - using fossil and modern plants to model atmospheric carbon dioxide

   02 Nov 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Gina Wesley¹, Kelly Livernoche¹, Sean McNamara², William Gretes³, Allison Bell, Kiersten Newtoff¹, Jeff Leips⁴, Richard Barclay⁵, Heather Killen⁵

   1. Montgomery College 2. Community College of Baltimore County 3. Howard Community College 4. University of Maryland Baltimore County 5. Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

   Students will develop a mathematical model of the relationship between atmospheric CO2 and the number of stomata on a leaf (Stomata Index). They will evaluate the model graphically, statistically,...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/4541/?v=1

2. Osmosis: Determination of the rate of osmosis and the isotonic concentration

   06 Oct 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Julie Takacs¹, Evdokia Kastanos², Vedham Karpakakunjaram³, Robin Minor⁴

   1. Anne Arundel Community College 2. Montgomery College/Rockville 3. Biology Department, Montgomery College 4. Community College of Baltimore County

   This module contains exercises designed to help students understand how solute concentrations affect the direction and rate of osmosis. Students are given different scenarios to predict the...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/4401/?v=1

3. Enzyme Kinetics: How Quickly Can Acetylcholinesterase Break Up Your Thoughts?

   23 Aug 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Hannah Pie¹, Michelle Starz-Gaiano²

   1. Howard County Community College 2. University of Maryland Baltimore County

   This module contains exercises designed to help upper-level cell biology students understand the common graphical methods used to evaluate enzyme activity and to see the impact of inhibitors on...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/4517/?v=1

4. Using the Hardy-Weinberg Equations: Quantifying Natural Selection and Allele Frequencies

   11 May 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Gina Wesley¹, Sean McNamara², Kelly Livernoche¹, Kiersten Newtoff¹, William Gretes³, Allison Bell, Jeff Leips⁴

   1. Montgomery College 2. Community College of Baltimore County 3. Howard Community College 4. University of Maryland Baltimore County

   This module contains exercises designed to walk students through a real-world example of the coevolution of fruit color and primate frugivore color vision. Students will apply the Hardy-Weinberg...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/4324/?v=1

5. 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

6. RAT ATTACK! Population growth

   07 Apr 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Kiersten Newtoff¹, Gina Wesley¹, Will Gretes², Allison Bell², Kelly Livernoche¹, Sean McNamara³, Jeff Leips⁴

   1. Montgomery College 2. Howard Community College 3. Community College of Baltimore County 4. University of Maryland Baltimore County

   This module contains exercises focused on the use and interpretation of density independent and density dependent population growth models. Students build logistic and exponential growth models in...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/4005/?v=1

7. 2020-Cline_Fasteen_Francis_Sullivan_Wendt-Vision_for_Projects_Across_Mathematics_Curriculum

   08 Mar 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Kelly Cline

   Carroll College, Helena MT USA

   We consider the use of projects in math courses as a mechanism for promoting coding, communication, and interdisciplinary application of math skills. Final projects play an important role, but we...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/3731/?v=1

8. Exploring Interdisciplinary Professional Development Opportunities through the Quantitative Biology at Community Colleges QB@CC Project

   19 Jul 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Irene Corriette¹, Sheela Vemu²

   1. Santa Fe College 2. Waubonsee Community College - Tenure Track and Northern Illinois University

   The Quantitative Biology at Community Colleges (QB@CC) project provides a platform for open education resource (OER) development. Biology and mathematics faculty collaborate, create, and publish...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/3470/?v=1

9. Using Structured Decision Making to Explore Complex Environmental Issues

   28 Aug 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Erin I. Larson*¹, Michelle Y. Wong¹

   Cornell University

   Environmental issues are inherently complex, often requiring multiple interested parties to come together before agreeing on a solution. Structured decision making is a tool used by federal and...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2634/?v=1

10. Out of Your Seat and on Your Feet! An adaptable course-based research project in plant ecology for advanced students

    25 Aug 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Michael P. Fleming

    California State University, Stanislaus

    University capstone projects can offer science students a rich research experience that illustrates the process of doing scientific research, and can also help students better choose future...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2552/?v=1

11. Quantitative Biology at Community Colleges: Building a Community of Biology and Math Faculty to Develop and Disseminate Open Educational Resources

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

    By Vedham Karpakakunjaram¹, Kristin Jenkins²

    1. Montgomery College 2. BioQUEST

    This is a poster presented at the SABER West 2020 conference. We introduced the grant's goals and objectives, described the leadership team and disseminated the information about the first network...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2093/?v=1

12. Interdisciplinary biology education: a holistic approach to an intractable problem

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

    By Kristin Jenkins

    BioQUEST

    Presentation on interdisciplinary biology education at the 2019 Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1208/?v=2

13. Interdisciplinary biology education: a holistic approach to an intractable problem

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

    By Kristin Jenkins

    BioQUEST

    Presentation on interdisciplinary biology education at the 2019 Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1208/?v=1

14. Characterizing the Quantitative Biology Curricula from Institutions Across the United States

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

    By Wendy Jo Levenson, Monika Norea Herbst¹, Sam S Donovan¹, Alison N Hale¹

    University of Pittsburgh

    Undergraduate research poster presented at the Undergraduate Research Symposium at the University of Pittsburgh in 2015.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/236/?v=1

15. A Framework for Modeling to Encourage Interdisciplinary Conversations

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

    By Carrie Diaz Eaton

    Unity College

    Presentation given as part of a minisymposium at SIAM 2016 on interdisciplinary approaches to modeling.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/209/?v=2

16. A Framework for Modeling to Encourage Interdisciplinary Conversations

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

    By Carrie Diaz Eaton

    Unity College

    Presentation given as part of a minisymposium at SIAM 2016 on interdisciplinary approaches to modeling.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/209/?v=1