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1. Sizes, Scales and Specialization: Using Relative Proportions and Scientific Notation to Highlight the Diversity of Cell Types

   15 Apr 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Heather Seitz¹, Jillian Marie Miller², Joseph Esquibel³

   1. Johnson County Community College 2. Roane State Community College 3. Lansing Community College

   This module explores how cell size and shape varies across cell types in the human body by having students calculate relative proportions of numbers in scientific notation.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/1952/?v=2

2. Paleoclimate and Ocean Biogeochemistry (Project EDDIE)

   11 Apr 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Allison W. Jacobel

   Brown University

   This module guides students in an examination of how surface ocean productivity relates to global climate on glacial-interglacial timescales and how the availability of ocean nutrients can be...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2305/?v=1

3. NEON_PDSI

   10 Apr 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Peter VanZandt

   Birmingham-Southern College

   Users access and manipulate drought data and visualize these data to learn about historical drought patterns.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2304/?v=1

4. Phenology Trends and Climate Change in Minnesota (Project EDDIE)

   10 Apr 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Pamela Freeman

   The College of St. Scholastica

   In this module, students will practice answering a specific question about how climate change has affected flowering date in American elm trees. Students can then practice on a species of their own...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2303/?v=1

5. Climate Drivers of Phenology (Project EDDIE)

   10 Apr 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Emily Mohl

   St. Olaf College

   This activity explores the question: which species will be most affected by temperature changes, and how will changes in the phenology of one species affect its interaction with others as the...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2302/?v=1

6. Plate Tectonics: GPS Data, Boundary Zones, and Earthquake Hazards (Project EDDIE)

   10 Apr 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Christopher Berg¹, Julie Elliott², Beth Pratt-Sitaula³

   1. Orange Coast College 2. Purdue University 3. UNAVCO

   Students work with high precision GPS data to explore how motion near a plate boundary is distributed over a larger region and hypothesize the area over which boundary-related earthquake hazards...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2301/?v=1

7. Remote Sensing of Plants and Topography in R (Project EDDIE)

   09 Apr 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Kyla M. Dahlin

   Michigan State University

   Students will explore different possible abiotic drivers of plant growth, defined as greenness and height. In the final step, students will analyze data from around the United States and consider...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2300/?v=1

8. Sustainability Metrics (Project EDDIE)

   09 Apr 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Natalie Hunt

   University Of Minnesota - Twin Cities

   In this module, students will use an analytical framework with publicly available data to formulate questions, analyze data, and report metrics of sustainability.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2299/?v=1

9. Food, Energy and Water Learning Modules (FEWLM) Workbooks

   19 Mar 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Porche L. Spence¹, Tonya Maria Gerald-Goins², Greg Goins³

   1. North Carolina A&T State University; North Carolina Central University 2. North Carolina Central University 3. North Carolina A&T State University

   FEWLM is a low-cost inquiry-based interdisciplinary STEM prototypical curriculum built on Next Generation Science Standards, systems thinking and informed engineering design pedagogy.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2287/?v=1

10. Electrical and chemical communication in the nervous system

    04 Mar 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Patrick Cafferty

    Emory University

    This activity guides students through an online tutorial to examine the electrical and chemical communication of neurons.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1405/?v=2

11. Calculating and Comparing Biodiversity Materials Across Sites Using NEON Herbaceous Vegetation Data - a Tutorial

    26 Feb 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Diane M. Styers¹, Jennifer L. Schafer², Mary Beth Kolozsvary³, Kristen M. Brubaker⁴, Sara E. Scanga⁵, Laurel J. Anderson⁶, Jessica J. Mitchell⁷, David Barnett⁸

    1. Western Carolina University 2. Winthrop University 3. Siena College 4. Hobart and William Smith Colleges 5. Utica College 6. Ohio Wesleyan University 7. University of Montana, Spatial Analysis Lab 8. National Ecological Observatory Network, Battelle Memorial Institute

    These materials are intended for use at the undergraduate level. They employ R and Excel software.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2276/?v=1

12. 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

13. Biodiversity, Big Data, and the Fossil Record

    25 Feb 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Joshua Zimmt¹, Lisa White¹

    University of California Museum of Paleontology

    In this lab, we will be making and testing hypotheses about how the biodiversity of groups of organisms may vary through time.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2249/?v=1

14. Climate-Induced Shifts in California Butterflies

    18 Feb 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Jessica Coyle

    A module in which students generate and test hypotheses about butterfly species’ response to climate change in the Central Valley and Sierra Nevada Mountains of northern California using publicly...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1884/?v=2

15. STEM Inclusive Teaching Practices Webinar Series: Socially Relevant Teaching in the Time of COVID-19

    18 Feb 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Joanna Wares¹, Marcella Torres¹, zeynep teymuroglu², Grace Stadnyk³, Casey Hawthorne³, E Cabral Balreira⁴

    1. University of Richmond 2. Rollins College 3. Furman University 4. Trinity University

    Presents various mathematical modeling and data science activities created around analyzing and interpreting COVID-19 data. Much of the instructional guidance provided for the activities and...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2263/?v=1

16. The Human Microbiome Biodiversity in Health and Disease

    17 Feb 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Angela Peña-Gonzalez¹, Emily Weigel¹

    Georgia Institute of Technology

    The students will analyze the human gut and vaginal microbiomes in healthy and diseased states using diversity of bacteria as determined by 16SrRNA sequence.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2221/?v=1

17. Sizes, Scales, and Specialization: An activity highlighting the diversity in cell types

    15 Feb 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Heather Seitz¹, Jillian Marie Miller², Joseph Esquibel³

    1. Johnson County Community College 2. Roane State Community College 3. Lansing Community College

    This module explores how cell size and shape varies across cell types in the human body by having students calculate relative proportions of numbers in scientific notation.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1952/?v=1

18. Lichens in Diverse Landscapes: EREN-NEON Flexible Learning Project

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

    By Leah Dudley

    East Central University

    This project makes use of publicly-available datasets on lichen presence and abundance and wet deposition, paired with geospatial data on air quality, tree canopy cover, and locally collected field...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2254/?v=1

19. Why Cells Change Weight: Demonstrating Linear Regression Through an Osmosis Experiment

    10 Feb 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Ashley Lamb Galloway¹, Stefanie L Holmes¹, Ashley Morgan², Mary Ann Sexton¹

    1. Roane State Community College 2. Roane State

    In this activity, students will perform an experiment utilizing dialysis tubing to create cellular models to demonstrate the linear relationship between cell weight and time in varying tonicities....

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2247/?v=1

20. The Evolution (and Coevolution) of Flowering Plants Virtual Classroom

    05 Feb 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Anna Monfils¹, Debra Linton¹

    Central Michigan University

    In this lab, you will explore the diversity of flower and fruit adaptations that have evolved to accomplish pollination and seed dispersal and you will investigate the coevolution of angiosperms...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2251/?v=1