Education: Recommended Links

• Curriculum Guide to Confronting Climate Change in California
  The curriculum guide is designed to complement the report and to make its findings accessible to younger residents of the state.
   
• Curriculum Guide to Confronting Climate Change in the Gulf Coast Region (pdf)
  This curriculum guide, created especially for teachers and educators, is designed to complement Confronting Climate Change in the Gulf Coast Region: Prospects for Sustaining Our Ecological Heritage and to make its findings accessible to younger residents of the Gulf Coast states. 
   
• Kids Do Ecology: A site of the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis designed to help kids discover ecology.
   
• Schoolyard Habitat Project: The Schoolyard Habitat program of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service helps teachers and students create wildlife habitat on school grounds.
   
• National Wildlife Federation Environmental Education: A variety of resources including ecology clubs, programs, and workshops.

• Using the Web in Ecology Classes
  This site was developed by Ken Klemow, Biology Department, Wilkes University; Mary Anne Sydlik, Biology Dept., Hope College; and Bruce Grant, Widener University, and was the subject of a workshop at the 1998 ESA meeting in Baltimore.
   
• What Constitutes Ecological Literacy?
  Ken Klemow (Biology Department, Wilkes University) has proposed a first cut of eleven basic ecological concepts that students should understand.

• "Perspective of an Ecologist Outside Academia"
  Guest Editorial in the October 1999 ESA NewSource by Sean O'Brien
   
• "Primer on How to Apply and Get Admitted to Graduate School in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology"
  Commentary contributed to the ESA Bulletin, October 1999, Volume.80, No. 4, by Walter P. Carson, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh
   
• Profession: Careers in Ecology: More and varied demands create opportunities for those with broad interests"
  Article written about a workshop, hosted by ESA and the 2000 Annual Meeting in Snowbird, by book author Karen Young Kreeger for The Scientist, volume 16, No. 31, Aug. 21, 2000.
   
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