Teaching Materials (1-5 of 5)

1. How Luxury and Legacy Effects Shape Urban Avifauna in Los Angeles, California

   09 May 2024 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Melanie Del Pozo, Herman Tomasi

   Is L.A.’s bird population shaped by historic redlining and income inequality? This lesson will introduce luxury and legacy effects hypotheses as they relate to urban avifauna in LA neighborhoods....

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/4788/?v=1

2. 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

3. Assessing Socioeconomic Trends in Tree Cover and Human Health in Urban Environments

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

   By Tamara Basham

   Collin County Commuity College District

   In this exercise, students use a combination of publicly available data and tree cover data that they generate using iTree Canopy to test whether tree cover is equitably distributed within the city...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2363/?v=1

4. Oyster Restoration Success and Water Quality in the James and Rappahannock Rivers of Virginia

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

   By Julia L. Josephs

   This QUBES lesson uses statistical analysis to test whether or not oyster restoration sites in Virginia are successfully increasing the number of oysters and whether or not water quality is...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2358/?v=1

5. Global Temperature Change in the 21st Century: An Introduction to Global Climate Models and Graphing in Excel (Adapted for Non-Majors)

   28 May 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Tamara Basham

   Collin County Commuity College District

   Students link human behavior in various climate change scenarios to predicted temperature outcomes at both local (their assigned Latitude) and global (Latitudinal trends) scales. This adaptation is...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/1865/?v=1