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1. Attract or Defend? Secondary Compounds among tissues in two species of Lupine (Fabaceae)

   27 Sep 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Rebecca Penny Humphrey

   This plant-biology data analysis module compares concentrations of defensive alkaloid compounds among tissue types in two species of the flowering-plant Lupine (Fabaceae). Students practice with...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2107/?v=1

2. Using Linear Regression to Explore Environmental Factors Affecting Vector-borne Diseases

   02 Sep 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Andy Adams¹, Jessica A Adams¹, John J. Bray¹, Tami Imbierowicz¹, Suzanne Lenhart², Breonna Martin¹

   1. Harford Community College 2. University of Tennessee

   In this activity students will use linear regression to analyze real data on vector-borne diseases and explore how environmental factors such as climate change or population density influence the...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2097/?v=1

3. Examining the Physiology Behind the Symptoms of Lactose Intolerance

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

   By Melissa Haswell

   Davenport University

   This is a set of extension questions for the HHMI short film The Making of the Fittest: Got Lactase? The Co-evolution of Genes Video Activity.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2087/?v=1

4. Nature’s Flying Machines: The Evolutionary Relationship of Avian Form & Function

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

   By Melissa Haswell

   Davenport University

   In this series of activities, birds will be used as the model organism. The modules examine the connections between body form and function over time by investigating the relationship between avian...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2085/?v=1

5. Mini-Workshop August 14, 2020

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

   By Vinayak Mathur¹, Anne Rosenwald², Gaurav Arora³

   1. Cabrini University 2. Georgetown University 3. Gallaudet University

   We reviewed the materials available on Genome Solver (other lessons here) and described our new python pipeline for examining horizontal gene transfer and a new synteny lesson in detail.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2084/?v=1

6. BSL-4: Authorized Personnel Only

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

   By Nicole Anthony

   Biological Sciences, Toronto District School Board

   National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science resource on the 2014 Ebola epidemic. This resource is also included in the NIBLSE Learning Resource Collection

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/795/?v=1

7. The Hidden Kingdom: Island Biogeography with Fungi

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

   By Erica F Kosal

   North Carolina State University at Raleigh

   In this activity, students will explore a dataset of fungi dispersal capabilities and colonizing success to test the predictions of island biogeography theory.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2060/?v=1

8. Opioid crisis: exploring the neurophysiology of opioid receptor signaling

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

   By Jason Chan

   Marian University

   Using this dataset, we explore how opioids affect the electrical activity of neurons when exposed to different opioid receptor agonists and antagonists.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2056/?v=1

9. Obesity - An Epidemic with Unexpected Causes, Consequences, and Complexity

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

   By Edward Freeman

   St. John Fisher College

   This dataset was collected from interviews conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. State by state data are provided to explore the interactions of education, income, and...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2052/?v=1

10. A Letter to a Young Scientist: Prompting Students To Reflect On And Recognize Their Own Growth As Scientists

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

    By Stephanie Conant¹, Tom D'Elia², Arturo Diaz³, Denise L Monti⁴, Richard Pollenz⁵, Vassie Ware⁶, Kathy Takayama⁷, Viknesh Sivanathan⁷

    1. University of Detroit Mercy 2. Indian River State College 3. La Sierra University 4. University of Alabama at Birmingham 5. University of South Florida 6. Lehigh University 7. Howard Hughes Medical Institute

    This activity is designed to prompt students to reflect on and recognize their own growth as scientists and, consequently, may help develop student self-efficacy and science identity.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2037/?v=1

11. Elevator Pitch: An Activity to Help Students Communicate Their Research

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

    By Stephanie Conant¹, Tom D'Elia², Arturo Diaz³, Denise L Monti⁴, Richard Pollenz⁵, Vassie Ware⁶, Kathy Takayama⁷, Viknesh Sivanathan⁷

    1. University of Detroit Mercy 2. Indian River State College 3. La Sierra University 4. University of Alabama at Birmingham 5. University of South Florida 6. Lehigh University 7. Howard Hughes Medical Institute

    In this activity, students and the research mentor co-develop an elevator pitch that students can use to communicate their research.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2035/?v=1

12. Lesson III - Annotation

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

    By Anne Rosenwald¹, Gaurav Arora², Vinayak Mathur³

    1. Georgetown University 2. Gallaudet University 3. Cabrini University

    Genome Solver began as a way to teach undergraduate faculty some basic skills in bioinformatics; no coding or scripting is required. Lesson III introduces Annotation, or assigning meaning to all...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/856/?v=3

13. Phage Discovery Videos

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

    By Billy Biederman, Vic Sivanathan¹

    Howard Hughes Medical Institute

    A compilation of videos to support teaching the concepts and protocols for discovering and working with phage.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2034/?v=1

14. Writing Genome Announcements Collaboratively

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

    By Arturo Diaz¹, Julia Lee-Soety², Shima Chaudhary³, Richard Pollenz⁴

    1. La Sierra University 2. Saint Joseph’s University 3. South Texas College 4. University of South Florida

    This resources provides a framework for students to write a Genome Annoucement, collaboratively.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2038/?v=1

15. Conservation and ethics of using synthetic genetics

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

    By Fran Sandmeier

    This contains teaching material - powerpoints and handouts that can be adapted for lectures and/or discussion groups.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2026/?v=1

16. Atlas of Black Scholarship for Inclusive and Racially Diverse STEM Curricula – Volume I

    30 Jul 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Aparna Anandkumar¹, Ariel Moline², Pascale S. Guiton²

    1. Castro Valley High School & California State University East Bay 2. California State University East Bay

    The contributions of Black scientists to the advancement of STEM are poorly represented in course materials. Here, we provide an Atlas of Black Scholarship to help Life Sciences and Chemistry...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2022/?v=1

17. Graphing an Epidemic: West Africa Ebola Epidemic

    28 Jul 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Lois Bartsch

    Metropolitan Community College

    In this activity, students will explore how the Ebola virus outbreak occurred in West Africa through graphing prevalence, incidence and mortality data from the three major countries that were...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2013/?v=1

18. Anti-bias Education Puppet Plays

    28 Jul 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Julia Robinson

    Cecilia Berg Center for Environmental Education; Hefner Museum of Natural History; Miami University

    Nature provides science content for teacher preparation certification programs and the backdrop for puppet plays used as a springboard for teaching the NAEYC's four goals of Anti-bias...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2009/?v=1

19. Climate-Induced Shifts in California Butterflies

    17 Jul 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Jessica Coyle

    A module in which students generate and test hypotheses about butterfly species’ response to climate change in the Central Valley and Sierra Nevada Mountains of northern California using publicly...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1884/?v=1

20. Cleaning Biodiversity Data: A Botanical Example Using Excel or RStudio

    16 Jul 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Michelle Gaynor

    University of Florida

    Access and clean an open source herbarium dataset using Excel or RStudio.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1964/?v=1