In this article an unusual ecology laboratory/field exercise is described in which students imagine themselves as a group of indigenous woodland people attempting to gather food stores that will...
A course syllabus for upper-level ecology that concentrates on basic principles with a laboratory portion focused on two main activities: small-scale campus garden experiments and an introduction to...
The author of this TIEE Research Paper assessed the use of student-active activities to teach students to use the scientific method and improve their understanding of basic ecological concepts. The...
In this Experiment, students design an experiment to examine intraspecific and interspecific competition using two species of parasitoid wasps (Nasonia vitripennis and Melittobia digitata). Students...
This Experiment is designed to teach upper-level students in a plant ecology course how to collect data on plant populations (distribution and abundance), develop hypotheses to explain observed...
FrogPond is interactive evolution simulation software that challenges the user to design experiments that will establish the cause of deformities in a model frog population. This webpage has...
In this exercise students are assigned a scientific paper to read. Students must then write their own abstract for the assigned paper. Additional teaching materials on topics relating to...
In this exercise students are assigned two scientific papers to read and critique. Students must evaluate the purpose, methods, results, evidence, statistical relevance and implications of the...
In this exercise, students design and perform an experiment that helps them investigate the effects of habitat complexity on biodiversity in aquatic communities. In particular, students will glue...
Ecologists attempt to establish general principles from a vast range of organizational, spatial, and temporal scales (Belovsky et al. 2004). The process of developing generalities in ecology...
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