Support

All Categories (1-20 of 223)

1. Paleoclimate and Ocean Biogeochemistry (Project EDDIE)

   11 Apr 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Allison W. Jacobel

   Brown University

   This module guides students in an examination of how surface ocean productivity relates to global climate on glacial-interglacial timescales and how the availability of ocean nutrients can be...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2305/?v=1

2. Phenology Trends and Climate Change in Minnesota (Project EDDIE)

   10 Apr 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Pamela Freeman

   The College of St. Scholastica

   In this module, students will practice answering a specific question about how climate change has affected flowering date in American elm trees. Students can then practice on a species of their own...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2303/?v=1

3. Climate Drivers of Phenology (Project EDDIE)

   10 Apr 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Emily Mohl

   St. Olaf College

   This activity explores the question: which species will be most affected by temperature changes, and how will changes in the phenology of one species affect its interaction with others as the...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2302/?v=1

4. Plate Tectonics: GPS Data, Boundary Zones, and Earthquake Hazards (Project EDDIE)

   10 Apr 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Christopher Berg¹, Julie Elliott², Beth Pratt-Sitaula³

   1. Orange Coast College 2. Purdue University 3. UNAVCO

   Students work with high precision GPS data to explore how motion near a plate boundary is distributed over a larger region and hypothesize the area over which boundary-related earthquake hazards...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2301/?v=1

5. Remote Sensing of Plants and Topography in R (Project EDDIE)

   09 Apr 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Kyla M. Dahlin

   Michigan State University

   Students will explore different possible abiotic drivers of plant growth, defined as greenness and height. In the final step, students will analyze data from around the United States and consider...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2300/?v=1

6. Sustainability Metrics (Project EDDIE)

   09 Apr 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Natalie Hunt

   University Of Minnesota - Twin Cities

   In this module, students will use an analytical framework with publicly available data to formulate questions, analyze data, and report metrics of sustainability.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2299/?v=1

7. Food, Energy and Water Learning Modules (FEWLM) Workbooks

   19 Mar 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Porche L. Spence¹, Tonya Maria Gerald-Goins², Greg Goins³

   1. North Carolina A&T State University; North Carolina Central University 2. North Carolina Central University 3. North Carolina A&T State University

   FEWLM is a low-cost inquiry-based interdisciplinary STEM prototypical curriculum built on Next Generation Science Standards, systems thinking and informed engineering design pedagogy.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2287/?v=1

8. Graphing bacterial growth rates: semi-log graphs v linear graphs

   26 Feb 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Adam Marschall Jaros¹, Adronisha Frazier², Beth Alford², Brandy Williams²

   1. Lansing Community College 2. Northshore Technical Community College

   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/2252/?v=1

9. Biodiversity, Big Data, and the Fossil Record

   25 Feb 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Joshua Zimmt¹, Lisa White¹

   University of California Museum of Paleontology

   In this lab, we will be making and testing hypotheses about how the biodiversity of groups of organisms may vary through time.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2249/?v=1

10. Climate-Induced Shifts in California Butterflies

    18 Feb 2021 | 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=2

11. The Human Microbiome Biodiversity in Health and Disease

    17 Feb 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Angela Peña-Gonzalez¹, Emily Weigel¹

    Georgia Institute of Technology

    The students will analyze the human gut and vaginal microbiomes in healthy and diseased states using diversity of bacteria as determined by 16SrRNA sequence.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2221/?v=1

12. Big Data, Graphs, and Prediction

    17 Feb 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Jennifer Lyon Adler¹, David Simon², Emmanuel des-Bordes³, Joseph Esquibel⁴, mary miller², Pradip Raj Aryal⁵, Vickie Flanders²

    1. Maysville Community and Technical College 2. Baton Rouge Community College 3. Blue Ridge Community College 4. University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison College 5. NMSU Carlsbad

    In this activity, students are introduced to graphing and modeling data in a step-wise fashion. Real data of covid-19 deaths over time are used to incrementally ask students to fit the data to...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2261/?v=1

13. Sizes, Scales, and Specialization: An activity highlighting the diversity in cell types

    15 Feb 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Heather Seitz¹, Jillian Marie Miller², Joseph Esquibel³

    1. Johnson County Community College 2. Roane State Community College 3. Lansing Community College

    This module explores how cell size and shape varies across cell types in the human body by having students calculate relative proportions of numbers in scientific notation.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1952/?v=1

14. Lichens in Diverse Landscapes: EREN-NEON Flexible Learning Project

    12 Feb 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Leah Dudley

    East Central University

    This project makes use of publicly-available datasets on lichen presence and abundance and wet deposition, paired with geospatial data on air quality, tree canopy cover, and locally collected field...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2254/?v=1

15. The Evolution (and Coevolution) of Flowering Plants Virtual Classroom

    05 Feb 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Anna Monfils¹, Debra Linton¹

    Central Michigan University

    In this lab, you will explore the diversity of flower and fruit adaptations that have evolved to accomplish pollination and seed dispersal and you will investigate the coevolution of angiosperms...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2251/?v=1

16. Riverbird distributions and habitat use

    26 Jan 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By John McLaughlin

    Western Washington University

    Students determine habitat use by birds associated with rivers, using data collected while moving downriver in boats. They use R to calculate resource selection functions for each species. Results...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2238/?v=1

17. Data Management in Excel and R using National Ecological Observatory Network's (NEON) Small Mammal Data

    13 Jan 2021 | Datasets | Contributor(s):

    By Marguerite Mauritz¹, Sarah McCord²

    1. University of Texas at El Paso 2. USDA ARS Jornada Experimental Range

    Students use small mammal data from the National Ecological Observatory Network to understand necessary steps of data management from data collection to data analysis by re-organising excel sheets...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2215/?v=1

18. Yeti or not: Do they exist?

    31 Dec 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Keith Johnson¹, Adam Kleinschmit², Jill Rulfs³, William (Bill) Morgan⁴

    1. Bradley University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences 2. University of Dubuque 3. Worcester Polytechnic Institute 4. The College of Wooster

    Through this 4-part bioinformatics case study, students will be led through the forensic analysis of putative Yeti artifacts based on published findings.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1832/?v=3

19. Investigating Evidence for Climate Change (Project EDDIE) with CO2 and 13CO2 data: adapted for R

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

    By Marguerite Mauritz

    University of Texas at El Paso

    This is an adaptation to work in R of Investigating Evidence for Climate Change (Project) by Hage, M. 2020. Students will investigate geologic and modern evidence for global temperature and...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2214/?v=1

20. Introduction to R with Biodiversity Data

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

    By Shelly Gaynor

    University of Florida

    Students will learn R basics while downloading biodiversity data from multiple data repositories. This module will walk students through installing R, navigating R,writing reproducible scripts in...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2199/?v=1