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1. Mars Colony

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

   By James Burton Deemy

   College of Coastal Georgia

   In this exercise students work in groups to design an agroecosystem to feed a Mars Colony while accounting for space and energy transfer limitations.

   https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1296/?v=1

2. Island Frogs

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

   By James Burton Deemy

   College of Coastal Georgia

   This is an exercise in island biogeography that allows students to reconstruct splits in the evolutionary history of several hypothetical frog species.

   https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1295/?v=1

3. Adaptation of Investigating human impacts on stream ecology: locally and nationally

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

   By Catherine Sughrue Etter

   Cape Cod Community College

   TIEE Module- How does nutrient pollution impact stream ecosystems locally and nationally?

   https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1294/?v=1

4. A Fun Introductory Command Line Exercise: Next Generation Sequencing Quality Analysis with Emoji!

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

   By Rachael St. Jacques¹, Max Maza¹, Sabrina Robertson², Guoqing Lu³, Andrew Lonsdale⁴, Ray A Enke⁵

   1. Department of Biology, James Madison University 2. Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 3. Department of Biology and School of Interdisciplinary Informatics, University of Nebraska Omaha 4. ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Cell Walls, Melbourne University 5. James Madison University

   This resource is a fun computer-based intro to command line programming. The activity takes FASTQ NGS data files and runs a fun program called FASTQE.

   https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1092/?v=2

5. Answer Checking - Modified for Environmental Data Analysis/Statistics Course

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

   By Jennifer Prairie

   University of San Diego

   Modified answer checking worksheet from original BIOMAAP resource to include two additional questions relating to probability/P-values.

   https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1289/?v=1

6. 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/qubesresources/publications/1288/?v=1

7. 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/qubesresources/publications/1286/?v=1

8. Investigating Primary Productivity

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

   By Heather Olins

   Boston College

   In this 3-part investigation, students discuss, make predictions, and work with data about global scale net primary productivity.

   https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1253/?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/qubesresources/publications/1276/?v=1

10. Introduction to Growth Mindset - Teaching Notes - Boersma

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

    By Kate S Boersma

    University of San Diego

    Teaching notes from my use of BIOMAAP Growth Mindset teaching materials in my 300 level Ecology class for majors.

    https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1274/?v=1

11. Processes that Regulate Patterns of Species and Genetic Diversity - Intro Environmental Science

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

    By Megan Kelly

    Arrupe College of Loyola University Chicago

    This activity was adapted for use in an intro non-majors Environmental Science course, with an emphasis on collaborative data collection.

    https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1267/?v=1

12. The Effect of Climate Change on Butterfly Phenology - Intro Environmental Science

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

    By Megan Kelly

    Arrupe College of Loyola University Chicago

    In this module, students practice interpreting the relationship between variables before exploring changes in butterfly phenology through the use of natural history collections data.

    https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1266/?v=1

13. Mutation and Equilibrium Worksheet

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

    By Heather Susanne Zimbler-DeLorenzo

    Alfred University

    This is a worksheet created for students to complete when doing the Mutation and Equilibrium MathBench activity.

    https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1255/?v=1

14. Modification of "Exploring the population dynamics of wintering bald eagles through long-term data" module

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

    By Kaitlin Stack Whitney

    Rochester Institute of Technology

    This module is a modification of the Beckstead et al. module in TIEE Volume 7. It includes a meta-cognition based model and self reflection, no statistics, and is organized to be done in 1-2...

    https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1164/?v=1

15. Modification of "The Effect of Climate Change on Butterfly Phenology" module by Linton et al.

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

    By Kaitlin Stack Whitney

    Rochester Institute of Technology

    This is a modification of the Linton et al. module in TIEE Volume 13. Students use data from digitized museum records of butterfly specimens in a modification with no homework (lab/workshop format)...

    https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1163/?v=1

16. Investigating human impacts on stream ecology: locally and nationally

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

    By Jillian K. Decker

    State University of New York - Rockland Community College

    How does nutrient pollution impact stream ecosystems locally and nationally?

    https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1249/?v=1

17. Calling Bull in an Age of Big Data with R

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

    By Carrie Diaz Eaton

    Bates College

    Use the calling bull course to introduce students to data, ethics, visualization, and R.

    https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1150/?v=2

18. Bioinformatics: Investigating Sequence Similarity - A Plant Biology Approach

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

    By Ami Erickson

    This laboratory module is a modification of the original published on CourseSource with a focus on plant biology. In the final activity, students conduct a BLAST to compare histone protein...

    https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1247/?v=1

19. The nose knows: How tri-trophic interactions and natural history shape bird foraging behavior. Introduction to data visualization.

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

    By pamela scheffler

    Students investigate the role of olfaction and infochemicals on bird foraging behavior.. In this module students learn to analyze and present graphic data in ways that simplify interpretation.

    https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1221/?v=1

20. Exam Reflective Writing Activities (4 different prompts)

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

    By Polly Parks

    El Camino College

    This is an extended version of Reflective Writing activities to use before 4 different exams.

    https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1242/?v=1