TIEE : Volume 3, April 2005

• — Edited by C. D'Avanzo and B. W. Grant
• — S. Musante, Managing Editor

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Editors' Notes
           Overview of TIEE

ISSUES To Teach Ecology

Data Sets (students work with published data)


• Changes in Lake Ice: Ecosystem Response to Global Change
  Robert E. Bohanan (University of Wisconsin – Madison), Marianne Krasny (Cornell University), and Adam Welman (Cornell University)
• Long-term Response of an Arctic River Community to Phosphorus Fertilization
  Linda Deegan (The Ecosystems Center)
• Comparing the Influence of Precipitation, Fire, and Topography on Plant Productivity in the Tallgrass Prairie
  Jesse Nippert (Colorado State University) and John Blair (Kansas State University)

Frontiers Issues to Teach Ecology (using articles in the classroom)
edited and authored by Charlene D'Avanzo (Hampshire College)


• Landscape Ecology of Large, Infrequent Fires in Yellowstone Park
  Based on Turner, M.G., W.H. Romme, and D.B. Tinker. 2003. Surprises and lessons from the 1988 Yellowstone fires. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 1 (7): 351-358.

EXPERIMENTS to Teach Ecology (inquiry-based labs)

• Life Under Your Feet: Measuring Soil Invertebrate Diversity
  Richard L. Boyce (Northern Kentucky University)
• Testing Hypotheses on Plant-herbivore Interactions Using Sawfly Galls on Willows
  Kristina A. Ernest (Central Washington University)
• A Crosstown Walk to Assess Environmental Changes Along an Urban Socioeconomic Gradient
  George Middendorf (Howard University) and Charles Nilon (University of Missouri-Columbia)
• The Floristic Relay Game: A Board Game to Teach Plant Community Succession and Disturbance Dynamics
  Elena Ortiz-Barney, Juliet C. Stromberg, and Vanessa B. Beauchamp (Arizona State University)

TEACHING (information about teaching and learning)

• Frequently Asked Questions and Answers About Student-active Teaching
• Tutorials on Student-active Teaching (short how-to's)
• Turn-to-your Neighbor
• Jigsaw
• Essays
• Student-active Teaching
• Evaluation of Course Reforms: A Primer
• Guided Class Discussion
• Help Your Students Understand and Interpret Figures and Tables
• Glossary (education terms)
• Links (www sites)
• Ecology 101
• Active Learning and Student Active Teaching
• Improving Lectures and Discussion
• Cooperative Groupwork
• Theories of Learning Styles
• Assessment and Evaluation
• Articles by Richard M. Felder (NC State University)
• Faculty Teaching Enhancement Programs
• Forest Simulation Program
• Email Discussion List
• TIEE Evaluation & Research
• Ecology Education Publications [PDF] (156 KB)