VOLUME 4: Table of Contents
TEACHING ISSUES AND EXPERIMENTS IN ECOLOGY
These are published figures from peer-reviewed research journals and monographs that engage students in data analysis and critical thinking organized by teaching approach, Bloom's Taxonomy cognitive skills, class size, and time. The student-active approaches listed here are suggestions and examples; modify them as appropriate for your teaching.
Section and Ecological Question | Student-Active Approach | Cognitive Skill | Class Size/Time |
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1. Design an experiment | informal group work | knowledge, comprehension application, evaluation | any/moderate |
2. What is the relationship between ant-following birds and army ants? (Wrege et al. 2005) |
turn-to-your-neighbor | knowledge, comprehension interpretation | any/short |
3. How significant is this relationship to army ant colonies? (Wrege et al. 2005) |
informal group work | knowledge, comprehension interpretation | any/moderate |