Home Page of SCI 570 Issues in Ecology for Teachers

GENERAL

• Dr. David Rudge, Biological Sciences and The Mallinson Institute for Science Education
• The syllabus, microteaching assignment directions and directions for the lesson plan assignment.

• A general introduction to the worlds biomes.
• A dichotomous key for the identification of common trees in MI; here's another specific to the needs of MI teachers, which includes a dichotomous key for trees associated with the Upper Peninsula.
• A lesson plan to help students learn about decay, part of a site devoted to helping students learn about causal patterns in ecology.
• Wisconsin Fast Plants and Cabbage White Butterfly web sites
• A overview of the life cycles of Brassica rapa and Pieris rapae, rearing instructions and suggestions for classroom use.
• Here's another called Bottle Biology that provides photographs of the results of several of the experiments we are doing.
• A website devoted to how to create lesson plans in accordance with national standards for science literacy using the Cabbage White butterfly.
• Other ideas for experiments
• Global Environmental and Global Warming Links
• The BioQUEST Web Site, where you can find more information about the Environmental Decision Making and EcoBeaker simulations.

• A general introduction to misconceptions research.
• A comprehensive site on misconceptions research, including strategies to address misconceptions. Here's another more general site.
• A bibliography of articles written on misconceptions in biology. Here's another.
• A general website devoted to research on how people learn.
• Here's a site devoted to instructional strategies to address misconceptions. Here's another more general site devoted to alternative strategies for teaching and assessment.

• A downloadable version of the MI State Curriculum Framework for K-12 classes; the State of Michigan Science Education Guidebook that provides suggestions on how to implement the Michigan Curriculum Framework, an online version of the Project 2061: Benchmarks for Scientific Literacy and Science Education Resources from the Michigan Department of Education, which includes includes information on the Michigan Curriculum Framework, released items from the MEAP, and additional resources.

Please submit your comments and suggestions about the course and/this web site here.

• You may contact Dave Rudge either by email, by phone (616)-387-2779 or by fax (616)-387-5609.
• Dave Rudge's Home Page.
• The Department of Biological Sciences's Home Page.
• The Mallinson Institute for Science Education's Home Page.
• Western Michigan University's Home Page.

Last updated on 14 Nov 2005.