Teaching Materials (1-10 of 10)

1. Ground Spider Survey QUBES Resource Draft (1)

   31 Jul 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Sage Lockett

   Virginia Commonwealth University

   This QUBES Module aims to introduce students to standardized ecological field methods, measures of diversity, ArcGIS Online, and Excel. This is achieved through nocturnal survey of ground spiders.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/4484/?v=2

2. Ground Spider Survey QUBES Resource Draft (1)

   31 Jul 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Sage Lockett

   Virginia Commonwealth University

   This QUBES Module aims to introduce students to standardized ecological field methods, measures of diversity, ArcGIS Online, and Excel. This is achieved through nocturnal survey of ground spiders.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/4484/?v=1

3. GSD QUBES Resource Draft (1)

   23 Jun 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Sage Lockett

   Virginia Commonwealth University

   This QUBES module is focused towards AP Environmental studies courses. It includes hypothesis testing, transect sampling, Shannon Diversity Index, and scatter plot and bar graph creation in excel.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/4450/?v=1

4. Exploring Marine Primary Productivity with Descriptive Statistics and Graphing in Excel

   29 Jan 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Kristin Byrd

   Tarrant County College

   In this activity, students use real water chemistry data and descriptive statistics in Excel to examine primary productivity in an urban estuary of the Salish Sea. They will consider how actual...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/3643/?v=1

5. 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

6. Exploring Marine Primary Productivity with Descriptive Statistics and Graphing in Excel

   02 Sep 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Marina McLeod¹, Jennifer Olson¹, Wendy Houston¹

   Everett Community College

   In this activity, students use real water chemistry data and descriptive statistics in Excel to examine primary productivity in an urban estuary of the Salish Sea. They will consider how actual...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2747/?v=1

7. 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

8. Using Digitized Collections-Based Data in Research: A Hands-On Crash Course in Ecological Niche Modeling

   23 Apr 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Blaine Marchant

   Stanford University

   Step-by-step, hands-on instruction on ways to access and download these specimen data, how to process climate layer data, and how to apply Maxent software to construct ecological niche models.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/1819/?v=1

9. Biological Diversity in Wetlands: Applying the Scientific Method

   04 Jan 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Orissa Moulton

   Texas A & M University Galveston

   An introduction to the Scientific Method for Introductory Biology students using plant and animal richness and environmental data from ephemeral ponds and permanent wetlands.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/997/?v=1

10. Decoding, Critiquing, and Creating a Graph from the Ground Up

    28 Feb 2018 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Kiersten Nicole Newtoff¹, HHMI BioInteractive

    Montgomery College

    Students decipher a published graph with little supplemental information and are given more details in pieces before producing a new graph that displays the data more effectively and is easier to...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/376/?v=1