OCELOTS

Resource Type

• Implementation Plan and Teaching Notes

Courses

• Ecology

Course Level

• Upper Level

Bloom's Cognitive Level

• Application & Analysis
• Synthesis/Evaluation/Creation

Vision and Change Core Competencies

• Ability to use quantitative reasoning
• Ability to tap into the interdisciplinary nature of science
• Ability to communicate and collaborate with other disciplines
• Ability to understand the relationship between science and society

Vision and Change Core Concepts

• Structure and Function

Four Dimensional Ecology Education (4DEE) Framework

• Human-Environment Interactions
  • Human accelerated environmental change – there is no pristine ecosystem nor total equilibrium
    • Anthropogenic impacts, intentional and unintentional
  • How humans shape and manage resources/ecosystems/the environment
    • Conservation biology
    • Ecological stewardship

Class Type

• Lecture
• On-line

Class Size

• 1-50
• 51-100

Audience

• Life Sciences Major
• University

Lesson Length

• Portion of one class period

Key Scientific Process Skills

• Reviewing prior research
• Predicting outcomes

Pedagogical Approaches

• Think-Pair-Share
• Brainstorming
• Collaborative Work

Principles of How People Learn

• Focuses student on the material to be learned

Assessment Type

• Assessment of individual student performance
• Assignment
• Exam/quiz, take home
• Answer multiple choice question(s)
• Participate in discussion
• Post-test