Resources (1-20 of 36)

1. 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

2. Analysis of QB@CC FMN in the implementation of OER Modules

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

   By John Howard Starnes¹, Sondra Marie LoRe², Vedham Karpakakunjaram³, Joseph Esquibel⁴, Deborah Rook⁵, Kristin Jenkins⁶

   1. Southcentral Kentucky Community and Technical College 2. National Institute of STEM Evaluation and Research (NISER) 3. Montgomery College 4. Lansing Community College 5. BioQUEST 6. University of Texas, Austin

   Poster about the use of QB@CC modules in a faculty mentoring network. Presented at the 2021 BIOME Institute.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2480/?v=1

3. 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

4. Choosing healthy data for healthy relationships: how to use 5-point summaries, box and whisker plots, and correlation to understand global health trends.

   21 Jun 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Andrea Huntoon¹, John Doudna², Pallavi Bhale³, Thalita Abrahão⁴, Alys Hugo⁵, Jennifer Lyon Adler⁶

   1. Fox Valley Technical College 2. Lansing Community College 3. Montgomery College 4. Georgia State University Perimeter College 5. Everett Community College 6. Maysville Community and Technical College

   This module utilizes a user-friendly database exploring data selection, box-and-whisker plot, and correlation analysis. It also guides students on how to make a poster of their data and conclusions.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2427/?v=1

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

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. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

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

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

    By Sharon Maureen Homer-Drummond

    Tri-County Technical College

    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

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

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

    By Sharon Maureen Homer-Drummond

    Tri-County Technical College

    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

18. QB@CC Community Standards for Events

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

    By Vedham Karpakakunjaram

    Montgomery College

    Community standards and expectations for in-person and online events hosted by QB@CC

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2484/?v=1

19. QB@CC Poster for NABT 2020

    24 Nov 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Jennifer Glee Buntz¹, Joseph Esquibel², Kristin Jenkins³, Vedham Karpakakunjaram⁴, Jillian Marie Miller⁵, Christianne Baucom Nieuwsma⁶, Heather Seitz⁷, John Howard Starnes⁸

    1. Central New Mexico Community College 2. University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison College 3. BioQUEST 4. Montgomery College 5. Roane State Community College 6. South Mountain Community College 7. Johnson County Community College 8. Southcentral Kentucky Community and Technical College

    This is a poster presentation at the 2020 NABT Annual PD Conference. This poster describes the goals of QB@CC project, progress in the first year and an update on the upcoming events.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2140/?v=1

20. 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