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Data-Driven Decision-Making: Antarctic Fisheries
05 Jul 2024 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Jessie Golding1, Desiree Andersen1, Ellen Bledsoe1
University of Arizona
This is an entire module for a general education data science and ecology course. The module was originally designed as the fourth and final section of the course; the full course is openly...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/4885/?v=1
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ELE Calling Bull slides Feb 2024
09 Feb 2024 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Carrie Diaz Eaton
Bates College and RIOS Institute
These are the slides for a talk given by Dr. Carrie Diaz Eaton about teaching Calling Bull. The talk was hosted by Every Learner Everywhere on February 9, 2024.
https://qubeshub.org/publications/4636/?v=1
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Does Urbanization Favor Exotic Species?
17 May 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Gabriela Giacomangeli
In this lesson, students will learn about the exotic European honeybee (Apis mellifera), and why they are considered an important pollinator. They will be prompted to think about the impacts of...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/4326/?v=2
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Modeling Changes in Probability of Presence of Myotis lucifugus Due to White Nose Syndrome: An Introduction to Logistic Regression in R
16 May 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Mary Roseblock
Virginia Commonwealth University
In this lesson, students will learn more about the wildlife disease known as white nose syndrome and how it affects certain bat species more than others. Students will learn about the important...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/4307/?v=2
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Investigating the Drivers of Western Monarch Decline Using Partial Least Squares Regression
16 May 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Jackie Luu
Virginia Commonwealth University
In this lesson, students will explore the drivers of the western monarch butterfly decline. Students will compare the effects of climate factors and land use factors on the western monarch...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/4310/?v=2
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Does Urbanization Favor Exotic Species?
09 May 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Gabriela Giacomangeli
In this lesson, students will learn about the exotic European honeybee (Apis mellifera), and why they are considered an important pollinator. They will be prompted to think about the impacts of...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/4326/?v=1
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Investigating the Drivers of Western Monarch Decline Using Partial Least Squares Regression
08 May 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Jackie Luu
Virginia Commonwealth University
In this lesson, students will explore the drivers of the western monarch butterfly decline. Students will compare the effects of climate factors and land use factors on the western monarch...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/4310/?v=1
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Learning R for Biologists: A Mini Course Grab-Bag for Instructors
21 Mar 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Amanda D. Clark1, Laurie S. Stevison*1
Auburn University
As biology becomes more data driven, teaching students data literacy skills has become central to biology curriculum. Despite a wealth of online resources that teach researchers how to use R, there...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/3698/?v=1
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The Influence of Exotic Plant Invasion on Pollinator Abundance
11 May 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Maxcy Nicole Hill
Virginia Commonwealth University
This lesson introduces two global change factors, natural habitat loss and exotic plant invasion, and analyzes how these stressors impact the biodiversity and abundance of pollinator species....
https://qubeshub.org/publications/3055/?v=1
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Water We Doing: A Deep Dive Into Sustainable Ocean Management & Blue Economies
11 May 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Rachel Kline
Virginia Commonwealth University
This lesson explores the concept of blue economies and includes a detailing lesson in R that involves basic statistics and building complex graphics.
https://qubeshub.org/publications/3054/?v=1
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Thinking deeply about quantitative analysis: Building a Biologist's Toolkit
26 Aug 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Sarah Bray1, Paul Duffin1, James D. Wagner1
Transylvania University
Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education encouraged faculty to focus on core concepts and competencies in undergraduate curriculum. We created a sophomore-level course, Biologists'...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/2575/?v=1
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LearnR Apps
15 Jul 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Derek Edward Sollberger
UC Merced School of Natural Sciences
Presentation on using the LearnR software in teaching. Presented at the 2021 BIOME Institute
https://qubeshub.org/publications/2471/?v=1
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Life in Urban Environments: The Impact of Urbanization on Life-History Traits in Amphibian Species
13 May 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Madison Whitehurst
This lesson focuses on urbanization and its negative effects on species, specifically amphibians. The lesson will also provide hands-on statistical analyses and critical thinking questions to...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/2364/?v=1
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Carbon Sequestration and the Urban heat Island Effect
12 May 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Evan Blais
Virginia Commonwealth University
An urban heat island is an urban or metropolitan area that is on average far warmer than the surrounding rural areas. In this lesson we will study the impact these warmer temperatures have on the...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/2354/?v=1
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Case Study — World records as measures of senescence or randomness
12 Nov 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Carrie Diaz Eaton1, Carl Bergstrom2, Jevin West2
1. Bates College and QUBES 2. University of Washington
This is a project meant to accompany the Case Study that Carl Bergstrom, which uses R to explore whether declining track and field world record performance could be an artifact of sample size (less...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/2125/?v=1
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Case Study - Storks vs Babies
11 Nov 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Carrie Diaz Eaton
Bates College and QUBES
This is a R project based on the Robert Matthews paper Storks vs Babies. The idea is to replicate the results of the paper, learn a bit about R for linear fits and graphing and explore correlation...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/2123/?v=1
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Calling Bull Case Study — 99.9% Caffeine-free with R
11 Nov 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Carrie Diaz Eaton1, Carl Bergstrom2, Jevin West2
1. Bates College and QUBES 2. University of Washington
This is an adaptation of Calling Bull's Case Study on how caffeine free is hot chocolate versus coffee in order to make it into a student project that uses R.
https://qubeshub.org/publications/2122/?v=1
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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
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Cleaning Data with R and the Tidyverse in Swirl
09 Jun 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Rachel Hartnett
Mount St. Mary's University
The overall goal is to help students learn common data cleaning procedures on a dataset once they’ve collected measurements and before they are able to start their analysis. This swirl lesson is...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/1891/?v=1
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SEIR simulation activity for flattening the curve
12 Mar 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Carrie Diaz Eaton
Bates College and QUBES
This is a short exploration activity to introduce SIR and SEIR models without explicitly introducing differential equations. It utilizes the R package EpiDynamics and students can run the...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/1763/?v=1