OCELOTS

Resource Type

• Implementation Plan and Teaching Notes

Course Level

• Upper Level

Bloom's Cognitive Level

• Foundational: factual knowledge & comprehension
• Application & Analysis
• Synthesis/Evaluation/Creation

Vision and Change Core Competencies

• Ability to apply the process of science
• Ability to use modeling and simulation
• 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

• Information flow, exchange and storage
• Pathways and transformations of energy and matter
• Systems

Four Dimensional Ecology Education (4DEE) Framework

• Core Ecological Concepts
  • Community
    • Species diversity – biodiversity – dominance
  • Ecosystems
    • Nutrient cycling – nutrients
• Cross-cutting Themes
  • Pathways & Transformations of Matter and energy

Class Type

• Lecture
• Other

Class Size

• 1-50

Audience

• Life Sciences Major
• University

Lesson Length

• Multiple class periods

Key Scientific Process Skills

• Asking a question
• Gathering data/making observations
• Analyzing data
• Interpreting results/data
• Communicating results

Assessment Type

• Assessment of student groups/teams
• Create a diagram, drawing, figure, etc.
• Participate in discussion