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1. Learn Biological Sciences and Mathematics through cellular respiration, photosynthesis and primary productivity.

   07 Apr 2024 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Dr Pankaj Mehrotra

   University of the People, California, United States of America

   Photosynthesis is a process by which plants synthesize glucose and oxygen in presence of sunlight through light dependent reactions by utilization of sunlight, water to synthesize oxygen, ATP and...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/4716/?v=1

2. Teaching Modules from QB@CC: Tools to Improve Biology Student’s Quantitative Skills

   10 Oct 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Joseph Esquibel¹, Jillian Marie Miller², Jennifer Glee Buntz³, Vedham Karpakakunjaram⁴, Sarah Prescott⁵

   1. University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison College 2. Roane State Community College 3. Central New Mexico Community College 4. Montgomery College 5. University of New Hampshire

   NABT and QB@CC hosted a special webinar to explore the QB@CC OER entitled Sizes, Scales, and Specialization.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/4540/?v=1

3. Quantifying Bacterial Growth in the Guts and Hemolymph of Fruit Flies: Mathematical Modeling and Data Interpolation/Extrapolation

   09 Aug 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Maila Hallare¹, Iordanka Panayotova², Anna Salazar³

   1. NSU Math 2. Christopher Newport University 3. MBCH

   In this activity, students will analyze raw data obtained from an experiment that explores the effect of overexpressing the Ssk protein in order to strengthen the intestinal barrier and prevent...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/3403/?v=1

4. Modified Grassy Narrows and Muskrat Falls Dam: Hypothesis Testing and t-Tests

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

   By Sharon Maureen Homer-Drummond

   AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellowships at NSF

   Methylmercury contamination within fish populations is an important toxin that affect human, animal, and environmental health, serving as a carcinogen (cancer-causing agent) and endocrine-disruptor...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/3657/?v=2

5. Grassy Narrows and Muskrat Falls Dam: The Central Limit Theorem and a t-test

   09 Feb 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Paul Miller

   Everett Community College

   Students are introduced to concepts of sampling distributions and hypothesis testing using a simulation applet, elementary hypothesis tests, t-tests, and p-values as they compare a given fish...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/3679/?v=1

6. Effect of the Intestinal Protein Snakeskin on the Lifespan of Fruit Flies: A Kaplan-Meier Survival Analysissource Draft (1)

   03 Feb 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Maila Hallare¹, Iordanka Panayotova², Anna Salazar²

   1. US Air Force Academy 2. Christopher Newport University

   In this activity, students perform the Kaplan-Meier survival analysis on raw data obtained from an experiment that explores the effect of overexpressing the Snakeskin (Ssk) protein on the lifespan...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/3670/?v=1

7. Modified Grassy Narrows and Muskrat Falls Dam: Hypothesis Testing and t-Tests

   01 Feb 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Sharon Maureen Homer-Drummond

   AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellowships at NSF

   Methylmercury contamination within fish populations is an important toxin that affect human, animal, and environmental health, serving as a carcinogen (cancer-causing agent) and endocrine-disruptor...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/3657/?v=1

8. 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

9. Evolution of Tusklessness in African Elephants

   17 Aug 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Jennifer Buntz¹, Jessica Ross², Tony Weisstein³, Heather Zimbler-DeLorenzo⁴

   1. Central New Mexico Community College 2. Midwood High School 3. Truman State University 4. Georgia State University Perimeter Colllege

   The exploitation of African elephants in the form of ivory poaching is exacerbated by warfare. The affects of this anthropogenic evolutionary force on the African savanna elephant (Loxodonta...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/3503/?v=1

10. Exploring Interdisciplinary Professional Development Opportunities through the Quantitative Biology at Community Colleges QB@CC Project

    19 Jul 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Irene Corriette¹, Sheela Vemu²

    1. Santa Fe College 2. Waubonsee Community College - Tenure Track and Northern Illinois University

    The Quantitative Biology at Community Colleges (QB@CC) project provides a platform for open education resource (OER) development. Biology and mathematics faculty collaborate, create, and publish...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/3470/?v=1

11. QB@CC: An interdisciplinary network model for developing and disseminating OER to support pedagogical change

    02 Jun 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Sarah Prescott¹, Deborah Rook²

    1. University of New Hampshire 2. BioQUEST

    Presentation given at the Northeast OER Summer 2022We describe the interdisciplinary network that has been developing and sharing quantitative skills-based OER in biological sciences. The...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/3367/?v=1

12. Using Grassy Narrows in a Live Classroom with Clicker Questions and Interactive Histogram: Sampling Distributions, Probability, and Hypothesis Testing

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

    By Jonathan Andrew Akin

    Northwestern State University of Louisiana

    Students are introduced to concepts of sampling distributions, p-values, and hypothesis testing. Using both simulated and real data for methylmercury level in fish populations, students will...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/3249/?v=1

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. Sep 10 2021

    FMN: QB@CC: Breathing Life (Science) into Your Math Courses

    “When am I ever going to use this?!” Math educators hear this question time and time again. Quantitative Biology at Community Colleges (QB@CC), a 5-year NSF RCN-UBE funded project, is...

    https://qubeshub.org/news/events/details/2091

17. 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

18. Aug 22 2021

    QB@CC Incubator: Developing Interdisciplinary Resources for Math and Biology

    Are you interested in developing open education resources to introduce quantitative skills in a life sciences classroom AND provide life science context and data in a mathematics classroom? Apply...

    https://qubeshub.org/news/events/details/2093

19. Using Linear Regression Adaptation: Exploring Vector-borne diseases in an online classroom

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

    By Darcy Ernst

    In this adaptation students in online classrooms will use linear regression at home and in synchronous online time to analyze real data on vector-borne diseases and explore how environmental...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2504/?v=1

20. Grassy Narrows and Muskrat Falls Dam: Hypothesis Testing and t-Tests

    28 Jul 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Alida Janmaat¹, Pete Kaslik², Randall LaRue Moser Jr, Kevin David Simpson, Heather Susanne Zimbler-DeLorenzo³

    1. University of the Fraser Valley 2. Pierce College 3. Alfred University

    Students are introduced to concepts of hypothesis testing using elementary hypothesis tests, t-tests, and p-values as they compare a given fish population for methylmercury levels (using real and...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2434/?v=1