OCELOTS

Resource Type

• Module

Courses

• Ecology
• Science Process Skills

Course Level

• Upper Level
• Graduate

Bloom's Cognitive Level

• Application & Analysis
• Synthesis/Evaluation/Creation

Vision and Change Core Competencies

• Ability to apply the process of science
• Ability to use quantitative reasoning

Vision and Change Core Concepts

• Structure and Function

Four Dimensional Ecology Education (4DEE) Framework

• Core Ecological Concepts
  • Organisms
    • Abiotic and biotic features of the environment
    • Habitat and niche: fundamental – realized
  • Community
    • Succession
• 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
• Cross-cutting Themes
  • Structure & Function

Class Type

• Lecture
• Discussion Section
• On-line

Class Size

• 1-50
• 51-100
• 101+

Audience

• Life Sciences Major

Lesson Length

• Portion of one class period
• One class period

Key Scientific Process Skills

• Reading research papers
• Reviewing prior research
• Formulating hypotheses
• Predicting outcomes
• Interpreting results/data

Pedagogical Approaches

• Case Study
• Clicker Question

Principles of How People Learn

• Focuses student on the material to be learned

Assessment Type

• Assignment
• Answer clicker-type question(s)