This activity is intended for students to lead investigations on stream ecology. Students will exercise critical thinking skills to interpret data sets and maps regarding water quality and usage. They will also learn how to manipulate the data and create presentations of the figures.
This activity is included in Volume 8 of Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology (TIEE).
Students use data to test hypotheses on breeding bird species richness. Students will exercise critical thinking skills to interpret data sets and maps. They will then create graphic presentations of their findings.
This activity is included in Volume 8 of Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology (TIEE).
Students will exercise critical thinking skills to form a hypothesis on how cheatgrass alters fire behaviors. Students will analyze data and answer questions based on their interpretation of field-based data and satellite data. Using this information, students will collaborate to create maps and graphs.
This activity is included in Volume 8 of Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology...
This exercise, intended as homework or an in-class exercise, provides a guided inquiry approach to understanding continental scale patterns of species richness and patterns of relative abundance within community species assemblages. Students are introduced to the concept of latitudinal gradients in species richness. They are also introduced to the concept of evenness of relative abundances within...
This module uses a “linked-classes” approach to teaching socio-environmental
synthesis. A three-week (6 class) module is taught in two different classes (one
in biology, one in policy studies). Students conceptualize and conduct research
around a common focal question from specific stakeholder/expert positions. Our
focal question was: “Should the Federal Energy Regulat...