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1. Biodiversity Conservation in Agriculture

   11 May 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Emily Hastings

   Virginia Commonwealth University

   Biodiversity is decreasing rapidly each year and agriculture is a large contributor. In order to minimize biodiversity loss, we must study how local and landscape management in agriculture impact...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/3058/?v=1

2. Climate Change Module (Project EDDIE)

   09 May 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Jonathan Thomas Stetler

   Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

   Students explore how climate is changing from the recent record. Produced by Project EDDIE. This module was adapted for students using R and RStudio.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/3036/?v=1

3. Climate Change Module (Project EDDIE): Instructor Implementation

   06 May 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Emilie Wiesner

   Ithaca College

   This details an implementation of the climate change module, where students explore how climate is using data. Produced by Project EDDIE.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2987/?v=1

4. Are you teaching biostatistics with R? Suggestions to help you as work with your students.

   04 May 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Olivia Tabares

   Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

   Teaching students how to code and analyze data in R is important for the fields of biology and ecology. Olivia Tabares and the Ecological Forecasting Education Working Group created this resource...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2789/?v=2

5. Home sweet home for warblers: Graphing and Analysis using R

   14 Apr 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Kristen Kaczynski

   Earth & Environmental Sciences, California State University Chico

   This resource expands on the Data Nugget "Trees and bushes, Home Sweet Home for Warblers". The analyses and graphing is done in R and there are questions that ask about the management implications.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2928/?v=1

6. Green Infrastructure/Green Roofs (Project Eddie)

   11 Apr 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Elizabeth Farrell

   SUNY Nassau Community College

   Runoff in urban areas is an increasingly important issue when it comes to water quality. It is a major hydrologic issue in New York City, as urban infrastructure creates excess runoff and...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2919/?v=1

7. Prairie Eco Services (Project EDDIE)

   11 Apr 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Kelly Knight

   Houston Community College

   As densely populated urban areas continue to expand, human activity is removing much-needed greenspaces from our communities; in turn, we are also removing critical buffers that are needed to...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2918/?v=1

8. Hypoxia in Coastal Marine Ecosystems (Project Eddie)

   11 Apr 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Annette Brickley¹, Kathy Browne², Gabi Smalley²

   1. NES-LTER Education & Outreach Coordinator 2. Rider University

   Aquatic ecosystems are home to a complex intersection of physical and biological factors and an intersection of natural and anthropogenic factors. In the Chesapeake Bay, low oxygen events have...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2917/?v=1

9. The Mathematics of Voting Systems: Plurality, Runoff and Ranked Choice

   11 Apr 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Tess Hick

   Bates College

   In this five-day interdisciplinary math and social studies unit, students use math to create informed opinions about the three most common voting systems in the United States: plurality, runoff and...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2916/?v=1

10. Uninhibited Growth of Cells

    10 Mar 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Emily Boyce

    South Puget Sound CC

    In this activity, students will explore the concept of binary fission, generation time, and bacterial growth curves, with an emphasis on the log phase. Students will use semi-log graphs and linear...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2895/?v=1

11. Applying phylogenetic tree building in MEGA X to forensic applications for identifying unknown specimens

    10 Feb 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Nicholas Lorusso¹, Maria Shumskaya², Denise Gemmellaro²

    1. University of North Texas at Dallas 2. Kean University

    This exercise is designed to guide a learner through the construction of phylogenetic trees as a means of addressing research questions in forensic science such as the identification of previously...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2567/?v=2

12. Interpreting the Pseudocot Phylogeny

    07 Feb 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Kristy L Daniel

    Texas State University

    Students use physical characteristics, genetics, and a fossil record of hypothetical flowering plants to develop fundamental phylogenetic tree-building skills.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2867/?v=1

13. Introduction to nucleotide sequence analysis and protein modeling in MEGA and PyMol using coronavirus SARS-CoV-2

    03 Feb 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Maria Shumskaya¹, Christopher Zambell¹, Nicholas Lorusso²

    1. Kean University 2. University of North Texas at Dallas

    Introduction into computational approaches in phylogeny and protein modeling based on coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (caused COVID-19 pandemic). Two self-guided tutorials for standard lab classes of 2.5...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1796/?v=3

14. Tree Biomass and Phenology

    03 Feb 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Noam Tomoya Altman-Kurosaki¹, Emily Rose Brown², Sarah Roney¹, Emily Weigel¹

    1. Georgia Institute of Technology 2. Florida Gulf Coast University

    This lesson centers around understanding the connection of tree biomass and phenology with climate change. It uses both swirl and LearnR lessons in the R programming language to help students make...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2859/?v=1

15. Studying phylogeny by producing phylogenetic trees of primates using morphological and molecular characteristics.

    26 Jan 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Chas. Kennedy

    TriCounty Tech

    An assignment constructing phylogenetic trees using shared, derived morphological traits and molecular differences among 18 primate species and two outlier species has been developed. Skull and...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2854/?v=1

16. 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

17. Are you teaching biostatistics with R? Suggestions to help you as work with your students.

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

    By Olivia Tabares-Mendoza

    Teaching students how to code and analyze data in R is important for the fields of biology and ecology. Olivia Tabares and the Ecological Forecasting Education Working Group created this resource...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2789/?v=1

18. Ungrading to Decentered Grading Lightning Talk 2021 - YouTube

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

    By Andrea Huntoon¹, Brie Tripp, Derek Sollberger², Didem Vardar-Ulu³, John Howard Starnes⁴, Laura Reed⁵, Melanie Lenahan⁶, Stacey Kiser⁷

    1. Fox Valley Technical College 2. UC Merced School of Natural Sciences 3. Boston University, Chemistry Department 4. Southcentral Kentucky Community and Technical College 5. University of Alabama 6. Raritan Valley Community College 7. Lane Community College, BioQUEST

    BIOME 2021 Ungrading Working Group Lightning Talk

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2814/?v=1

19. BIOME 2021 Scientist Spotlight/Data Nugget Working Group Video Recap

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

    By Karen Klyczek¹, Laurel Lorenz², Pat Marsteller³, Laura Elizabeth Ong⁴, Elizabeth Pollock⁵, Amber Qureshi⁶, Katie Weglarz⁷, Suann Yang⁸

    1. University of Wisconsin-River Falls 2. Princeton 3. Emory University 4. King University 5. Stockton University 6. Unversity of Wisconsin Madison- Wisconsin Institute of Discovery 7. Westfield State University 8. Presbyterian College

    This two-minute overview video describes the work of the 2021 fall working group for Scientist Spotlight/Data Nugget course resources. Group members began developing new projects for a variety of...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2815/?v=1

20. Linear Regression (Excel) and Cellular Respiration for Biology, Chemistry and Mathematics

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

    By Irene Corriette¹, Beatriz Gonzalez¹, Daniela Kitanska², Henriette Mozsolits², Sheela Vemu³

    1. Santa Fe College 2. Passaic County Community College 3. Waubonsee Community College

    Students typically find linear regression analysis of data sets in a biology classroom challenging. These activities could be used in a Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, or Statistics course. The...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2811/?v=1