Resources (241-260 of 451)

1. 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/publications/1295/?v=1

2. 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/publications/1092/?v=2

3. 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

4. Passion-Driven Statistics

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

   By Lisa Dierker

   Wesleyan University

   E-book in .pdf format and customizable .iba format

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/1257/?v=1

5. 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/publications/1267/?v=1

6. Frayer model growth mindset

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

   By Heather McGray

   San Diego City College

   A Frayer model worksheet for the concept of growth mindset.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/1272/?v=1

7. 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/publications/1266/?v=1

8. 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/publications/1164/?v=1

9. 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/publications/1163/?v=1

10. BAG Lab Manual Yeast

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

    By Lisa Scheifele

    Loyola University Maryland

    This is the lab manual for yeast chromosome synthesis

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1241/?v=1

11. 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

12. 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/publications/1249/?v=1

13. Processes that Regulate Patterns of Species and Genetic Diversity

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

    By Jillian K. Decker

    State University of New York - Rockland Community College

    This activity was developed for an undergraduate upper level ecology course for Environmental or Biological Science majors. Classes of ~20 students work best for the activity.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1245/?v=1

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

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

    By Carrie Diaz Eaton

    Bates College and QUBES

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

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

15. 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/publications/1247/?v=1

16. Plant Defenses and Bioprospecting Mini-case Study

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

    By John Anthony Barone

    Columbus State University

    This narrative mini-case study for use in undergraduate ecology courses reviews plant defense theory within the context of bioprospecting. Students learn about factors affecting plant defenses and...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1235/?v=1

17. Climate Diagrams Mini-Case Study for Ecology

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

    By John Anthony Barone

    Columbus State University

    This mini-case study provides undergraduate ecology students with experience in how to read climate diagrams and how to put them together. The activity includes a discussion of actual and potential...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1231/?v=1

18. Movement: Nature's Flying Machines

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

    By Blake Cahill¹, Anna Monfils¹, Debra Linton¹

    Central Michigan University

    In this lab, you will explore the physics of flight, the adaptations that make powered flight possible, and the evolution of powered flight in vertebrates and invertebrates.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1228/?v=1

19. AVIDA exercise on the role of mutation in evolution

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

    By William Beachly

    Hastings College

    A tested exercise at the college freshmen level using AVIDA-Ed to generate and test a hypothesis about the relationship between mutation rate and the probability of evolving a useful function in...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1224/?v=1

20. Exploring the population dynamics of wintering bald eagles through long-term data

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

    By Valerie Greene

    Diablo Valley College

    pptx presentation & partially filled out student proposal worksheet

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1143/?v=1