The 6th Volume of the Ecolgoical Society of America's Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology (TIEE) is now available. This is a great resource for undergraduate educators but can also be modified for high-school teachers. Here's the table of contents:
EDITORIAL
The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Ecology
• Charlene D'Avanzo
RESEARCH
Enhancing science teachers’ understanding of ecosystem interactions with qualitative conceptual models
• Marion Dresner and Monica Elser
Assessment of the teaching of evolution by natural selection through a hands-on simulation
• Lori H. Spindler and Jennifer H. Doherty
Evaluating a Multi-Component Assessment Framework for Biodiversity Education
• Hagenbuch, Brian E., Nora Bynum, Eleanor Sterling, Anne H. Bower, John A. Cigliano, Barbara J. Abraham, Christine Engels, John F. Mull, John D. Pierce, Michelle L. Zjhra, Jennifer M. Rhode, Stuart R. Ketcham, and Margaret-Ann Mayer
Practitioner Research Improved My Students’ Understanding of Evolution by Natural Selection in an Introductory Biology Course • Bruce W. Grant
PRACTICE
Experiments
Rapid Adaptation of Bean Beetles to a Novel Host
• Christopher W. Beck and Lawrence S. Blumer
Decomposition and Soil CO2 Emission
• Jeffrey A. Simmons
Marine Reserve Design: Simulating stakeholder options
• Bonnie J. Becker and Peter A. Selkin
Biodiversity Responses across a Gradient of Human Influence
• Christopher A. Lepczyk
An Assessment of Assemblage Nestedness in Habitat Fragments
• Roarke Donnelly
Figure Sets
What does agriculture have to do with climate change?
• Brook J. Wilke and Justin Kunkle
Of wolves, elk and willows: how predation structures ecosystems
• Cynthia Dott
When Biocontrol Isn’t Effective: Making Predictions and Understanding Consequences
• Michele R. Schutzenhofer and Tiffany M. Knight
REVIEWS
The 2008 AIBS/AAAS Biology Education Summit
• Susan Musante
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