TIEE : Volume 1, January 2004

• — Edited by C. D'Avanzo and B. W. Grant
• — S. Musante, Managing Editor

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Editors' Notes for TIEE Volume 1
           Overview of TIEE

ISSUES To Teach Ecology

Figure Sets (published figures to use in lecture)

• What's Killing the Coral Reefs and Seagrasses?
  Charlene D'Avanzo (Hampshire College) and Susan Musante (American Institute for Biological Sciences)


• What Are Impacts of Introduced Species?
  Charlene D'Avanzo (Hampshire College) and Susan Musante (American Institute for Biological Sciences)


• The Ecology of Disturbance
  Charlene D'Avanzo (Hampshire College)


• Human Alteration of the Global Nitrogen Cycle
  Charlene D'Avanzo (Hampshire College)

Data Sets (students work with published data)

• Energy Balance and Trophic Status in Fish
  Charlene D'Avanzo (Hampshire College): data from ESA archive


• Hubbard Brook Streamflow Response to Deforestation
  Adam Welman, Cynthia Berger, and Marianne Krasny (Cornell University and the National Association of Science Writers): data from Hubbard Brook LTER


• Impact of Cowbird Brood Parasitism on an Avian Community
  Charlene D'Avanzo (Hampshire College): data from ESA archive

EXPERIMENTS to Teach Ecology (inquiry-based labs)

• Ecology of Habitat Contrasts: An Example from the Holyoke Range, MA
  Charlene D'Avanzo (Hampshire College)


• Environmental Correlates of Leaf Stomata Density
  Bruce W. Grant and Itzick Vatnick (Widener University)


• Effects of Eastern Hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) on the Establishment of Interspecific Seedlings
  Greg Murray and Kathy Winnet-Murray (Hope College)


• Seedling Growth of Wisconsin Fast Plants (Brassica rapa) in Field Environments
  Valerie A. Barko, Beth A. Burke, David J. Gibson, and Beth A. Middleton (Missouri Department of Conservation, Southern Illinois University, and National Wetlands Research Center, Lafayette, LA)

TEACHING (information about teaching and learning)

• Frequently Asked Questions and Answers About Student-active Teaching
• Tutorials on Student-active Teaching (short how-to's)
• Turn-to-your Neighbor
• Jigsaw
• Essays
• Student-active Teaching
• Evaluation of Course Reforms: A Primer
• Guided Class Discussion
• Help Your Students Understand and Interpret Figures and Tables
• Glossary (education terms)
• Links (www sites)
• Ecology 101
• Active Learning and Student Active Teaching
• Improving Lectures and Discussion
• Cooperative Groupwork
• Theories of Learning Styles
• Assessment and Evaluation
• Articles by Richard M. Felder (NC State University)
• Faculty Teaching Enhancement Programs
• Forest Simulation Program
• Email Discussion List


• EXPERIMENTS TO TEACH ECOLOGY. 1993, edited by J.M. Beiswenger