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1. The Stomata Lab. What the past can tell us about our future - using fossil and modern plants to model atmospheric carbon dioxide

   02 Nov 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Gina Wesley¹, Kelly Livernoche¹, Sean McNamara², William Gretes³, Allison Bell, Kiersten Newtoff¹, Jeff Leips⁴, Richard Barclay⁵, Heather Killen⁵

   1. Montgomery College 2. Community College of Baltimore County 3. Howard Community College 4. University of Maryland Baltimore County 5. Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

   Students will develop a mathematical model of the relationship between atmospheric CO2 and the number of stomata on a leaf (Stomata Index). They will evaluate the model graphically, statistically,...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/4541/?v=1

2. Green Design: How do Leaf Structures Optimize Photosynthesis and Promote Survival?

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

   By Katelyn J. Butler*

   Anderson University

   One of the major learning objectives established by the American Society of Plant Biologists and the Botanical Society of America has students answer the question: How do plant structures enable...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2676/?v=1

3. A flexible, multi-week approach to plant biology - How will plants respond to higher levels of CO₂?

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

   By Vanessa Muilenburg¹, Katherine Supanich¹, Stephen Scogin¹, Thomas Bultman¹, Jianhua Li¹, Lori Hertel¹, Kathy Winnett-Murray¹

   Hope College

   To help introductory biology students understand how plants will respond to higher levels of CO2, we have created a multi-week module consisting of a series of four related laboratory lessons....

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2613/?v=1