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Pathways to Scientific Teaching, Chapter 6a of 7: Active homework: preparation for active classes

We use the Kappel article [attached] to model ways to engage students in active homework to advance learning both inside and outside the classroom.

Kappel’s article provides an overview of threats to marine environments, pointing out that overharvest, habitat loss, and invasive species have major effects on marine communities. The following activities are examples designed to enable students to gain an understanding of the biological concepts that result from these threats. The homework concentrates on changes in community structure as a result of overharvest or introduced species, and the role of strongly interacting species on ecosystems.
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Resource Group "Pathways to Scientific Teaching" is based on a series of two-page articles published in "Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment" from August 2004 to June 2006 that illustrated effective instructional methods to help students gain conceptual understanding in ecology (Diane Ebert-May and Janet Hodder, 2008).

This installment of the Pathways to Scientific Teaching series describes one or more instructional strategies that use scientific papers to teach selected concepts. While specific journal articles are used in demonstrating these strategies, we would like to emphasize that each activity in the Pathways series has been designed for use with any scientific article on a similar topic, and not just the example shown here.

Note that in addition to undergraduate faculty, many high school teachers can use these articles as well in their biology courses.
Resource Group Link http://ecoed.esa.org/index.php?P=AdvancedSearch&Q=Y&FK=%22Pathways+to+...
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Life science discipline (subject)
Keywords active learning, homework, student engagement, endangered species, marine, estuarine, diadromous, overexploitation, habitat loss
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Pedagogical Use Description Instructor goals: 1) Guide students with active homework that prepares them
for class. 2) Motivate students to become proficient self-learners. 3) Use the outcomes of the homework to build on specific content and concepts in subsequent classes.

This installment of the Pathways to Scientific Teaching series describes one or more instructional strategies that use scientific papers to teach selected concepts. While specific journal articles are used in demonstrating these strategies, we would like to emphasize that each activity in the Pathways series has been designed for use with any scientific article on a similar topic, and not just the example shown here.

Note that in addition to undergraduate faculty, many high school teachers can use these articles as well in their biology courses.
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Full Name of Primary Author Diane Ebert-May
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Primary Author Affiliation Michigan State University
Primary Author email ebertmay@msu.edu
Secondary Author Name(s) Debra L Linton 2, Janet Hodder 3, Tammy Long 1
Secondary Author Affiliation(s) 1 Michigan State University, 2 Cuyahoga Community College, 3 University of Oregon
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  • Celia
Rights Copyright 2008, the Ecological Society of America
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Drought and Water Ecosystem Services Collection Off
Conservation Targets Under Global Change Collection Off
Big Data Collection Off
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Date Of Record Submission 2011-12-05
I Agree to EcoEdDL's Copyright Policy & Terms of Use No
Date Of Record Release 2012-03-05 11:47:41
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Date Last Modified 2013-11-27 09:48:47
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