Teaching Materials (1-20 of 22)

1. Figure of the Week: Applied Statistics for Wildlife Research

   16 Jan 2024 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Cody Hieu Pham¹, Robert E Furrow¹

   University of California, Davis

   Students use their number sense to make observations and explain or guess at patterns shown, discussing at the start of a weekly computer lab. This slide deck focuses on figures related to concepts...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/4612/?v=1

2. Cellular Respiration and pH: blocking the electron transport chain and its effects on the proton gradient, pH, and ATP production

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

   By Evdokia Kastanos¹, Julie Takacs², Shannon Dahl³, Padmavathi Tangirala⁴, Ben Nicholson¹, Susan Warner⁵

   1. Montgomery College/Rockville 2. Anne Arundel Community College 3. Howard Community College 4. Montgomery College/Germantown 5. Community College of Baltimore County

   This module contains exercises designed to help students describe the stages of cellular respiration and quantify the energy molecules produced. Students will predict the region of higher proton...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/4395/?v=1

3. CYTOSKELETON - Microtubule Dynamics in the Cell Cycle

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

   By Hannah Pie¹, Kathleen Hoffman²

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

   This module contains exercises designed to help upper-level cell biology students understand the dynamics of microtubule polymerization and depolymerization within the cell cycle and how cancer...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/4537/?v=1

4. 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

5. 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

6. Fitting Exponential and Logistic Growth Models to Bacterial Cell Count Data

   17 Dec 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Adam Rumpf

   Florida Polytechnic University

   In this activity, students will model a noisy set of bacterial cell count data using both exponential and logistic growth models. For each model the students will plot the data (or a linear...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2831/?v=1

7. Coyote Habituation and a Scientist Spotlight on Dr. Christopher Schell

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

   By Darlene Panvini

   Belmont University

   Dr. Christopher Schell is an ecologist who uses a variety of techniques to study mammalian carnivores in urban areas. This scientist spotlight uses graphs from his study on parental habituation to...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2455/?v=1

8. Analysis of Amylase Activity

   24 Nov 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Allison Carter Burlyn¹, Christina Fieber¹, Melanie Lenahan²

   1. Horry-Georgetown Technical College 2. Raritan Valley Community College

   This lab is an exploration of enzyme function and the effects of environmental conditions on the activity of the enzyme amylase. The lab utilizes analytical and graphing skills to assess enzyme...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2145/?v=1

9. (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

10. 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

11. COVID-19 Simulator (ISEE) Module

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

    By Sarah Hews

    Amherst College

    This accessible module guides students through exploring the COVID-19 Simulator developed by ISEE. Students dig into the four scenarios provided (including the parameters and the graphs), construct...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1775/?v=1

12. Coronavirus Epidemic Curves - Graphically Interpreting Derivatives

    19 Mar 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Sarah Hews

    A set of exam questions or class activity related to 'flatten the curve' during the coronavirus outbreak of 2020. Content includes: notation, first derivative, second derivative, and interpreting...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1774/?v=1

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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

18. 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

19. Nucleoplasmic Index

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

    By Lou Gross¹, Monica Beals¹, Susan Harrell¹

    University of Tennessee Knoxville

    This module introduces the nucleoplasmic index in the context of understanding how the volume of organelles and cell contents change during the cell cycle. It is intended for an introductory...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1038/?v=1

20. 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