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1. Optimal Foraging in Swirl

   15 Jul 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Mary Elizabeth McWhirt¹, Emily Weigel¹

   Georgia Institute of Technology

   This lesson centers around the marginal value theorem (MVT, Charnov 1976), which describes how animals should forage in patches. It serves as a pre-lab to teach MVT basics, vectors, ANOVA, and...

   https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1213/?v=1

2. Examining human impacts on tusk evolution in elephants using authentic research data using Serenity

   13 Jul 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Kaitlin Bonner

   St. John Fisher College

   In this activity students explore and analyze real, authentic research data paired with HHMI’s “Selection for Tuskless Elephants” video in a hands-on investigation of human impacts on elephant...

   https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1350/?v=1

3. Striped Bass: A Regulatory Success Story

   12 Jul 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By J. Alexander McCrickard¹, Angela Hanretty¹, Amanda Thompson¹

   Virginia Commonwealth University

   This module examines the Maryland striped bass moratorium (1985-1989) as a fisheries management success story. Maryland DNR striped bass young of the year data is utilized for least squares linear...

   https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1347/?v=1

4. Quantifying The Drivers and Impacts of Natural Disturbance Events – The 2013 Colorado Floods

   12 Jul 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Heather Susanne Zimbler-DeLorenzo

   Alfred University

   This lesson focuses on ways that scientists identify and use data to understand ecological disturbance events using data from five public datasets. The main lesson focused on interpretation of...

   https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1349/?v=1

5. A “Rule-of-Five” Framework for Models and Modeling

   11 Jul 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Carrie Diaz Eaton¹, Hannah Callender Highlander², Kam Dahlquist³, Glenn Ledder⁴, Drew LaMar⁵, Richard Schugart⁶

   1. Bates College 2. University of Portland 3. Loyola Marymount University 4. University of Nebraska Lincoln 5. College of William and Mary 6. Western Kentucky University

   In this paper, we extend the “Rule-of-Four,” initially used in calculus reform efforts, to a “Rule-of-Five” framework for models and modeling that is inclusive of varying disciplinary definitions...

   https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1346/?v=1

6. BAG Lab Manual Phage

   09 Jul 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Lisa Scheifele

   Loyola University Maryland

   This is the lab manual for phage genome synthesis.

   https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1250/?v=1

7. Regulación de expresión génica y adipogénesis por PPAR-γ

   09 Jul 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Juan Sebastián Ramírez-Lugo

   University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras

   En ésta actividad de dibujo / coloreado los estudiantes aprenderán sobre los diferentes componentes involucrados en la regulación de la activación de PPAR-γ, un factor de transcripción que juega un...

   https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1343/?v=1

8. NEON Data in the Classroom: Using the QUBES Platform and Faculty Mentoring Networks to Build, Adapt, and Publish Data-Driven Open Educational Resources

   26 Jun 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Kusum Naithani¹, Megan A. Jones², Kristine Grayson³

   1. University of Arkansas 2. National Ecological Observatory Network 3. University of Richmond

   Abstract for poster on the NEON Faculty Mentoring Network presented at the 2019 BioQUEST & QUBES Summer Workshop

   https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1325/?v=1