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March 6, 2009

Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology: Volume 6

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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