PARENT SESSION
Poster Session # 3: Ecological Education.
Monday, August 4 Presentation from 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM. SITCC Exhibit Hall B.
Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology (TIEE): A web site and CD-ROM for undergraduate ecological education.
Taylor, Jason*,1, D'Avanzo, Charlene2, Grant, Bruce3, Udovic, Dan4, 1 Ecological Society of America, Washington, DC, USA2 School of Natural Science, Amherst, MA, USA3 Department of Biology, Chester, PA, USA4 Department of Biology, Eugene, OR, USA
ABSTRACT- Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology (TIEE) is an NSF-funded, ESA-sponsored, peer-reviewed, and classroom/ field tested collection of teaching materials (1) to facilitate inquiry-based Experiments to Teach Ecology in laboratory courses, and (2) that uses active-learning methods and current controversial Issues to Teach Ecology for lecture classes. The TIEE web and CD ROM-based resource collection is not merely a static site of labs or topics for lecturing, it is an interactive set of new materials that are both scientifically sound and pedagogically innovative. Our goal is to have each new peer-reviewed unit meet standards-based learning objectives and use innovative strategies for teaching, assessing growth among the full diversity of student learners, and improving teaching through formative and summative evaluation. In addition, the peer review aspect of TIEE submissions and ESA's publication of the accepted educational materials will hopefully stimulate greater participation in ecological educational improvement by faculty who teach ecology. The poster will describe the pedagogical vision and classroom materials, as well as annotated links offsite, that are directly linked through keywords from the "Experiments" and "Issues" sections of the site. The resources provide background explanations and references to the pedagogy and enable faculty to use and evaluate new innovations in education in their classrooms and participate in rigorous research in ecological education to learn what works and why.
Key words: experiments to teach ecology, ecological education, issues to teach ecology, digital library