{"id":811,"date":"2016-01-29T16:08:52","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T16:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/mitchell\/?page_id=811"},"modified":"2016-02-02T20:48:44","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T20:48:44","slug":"teaching-links","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/mitchell\/interests\/teaching-links\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Links"},"content":{"rendered":"
Here are some links I find useful for improving education (and some that are just fun)<\/strong><\/h6>\n

Understanding Science – from UC Berkeley. lots of general science stuff. http:\/\/undsci.berkeley.edu\/index.php<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Bioliteracy project. Lots about misconceptions and similar issues. http:\/\/bioliteracy.net\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Catalog and discussion of ecological misconceptions. http:\/\/ecomisconceptions.binghamton.edu\/index.htm<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

School Yard Ecology Project (As far as I can tell, only chapters 1 and 3, + the very helpful appendices are online, but this is loaded with good ideas):http:\/\/www.ecostudies.org\/syefest\/contents.htm<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Ecological Society of America (ESA) Education Resources Page (good guide to ESA’s offerings): http:\/\/esa.sdsc.edu\/ed_resources.htm<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology (ESA – TIEE Web). Student-Active Teaching and
\nLearning Resources (new project from ESA — lots of good ideas, and will grow substantially in the near future): http:\/\/www.science.widener.edu\/~grant\/esa\/tiee\/teach\/teach.html<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

ABLE – Association for Biology Laboratory Education: http:\/\/www.zoo.utoronto.ca\/able\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Resources for Scientists Teaching Science: http:\/\/instruct1.cit.cornell.edu\/courses\/taresources\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Study Guides and Strategies (good site to provide for students to learn about studying and learning — also good for teachers): http:\/\/www.iss.stthomas.edu\/studyguides\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

FIRST – \u00a0Faculty Institutes for Reforming Science Teaching Through Field Stations (emphasis on inquiry and field work): http:\/\/darkwing.uoregon.edu\/~first\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Merlot (hundreds of multimedia resources – mostly but not all for college level): http:\/\/biology.merlot.org:9100\/Home.po<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Science Teaching Reconsidered – a helpful online book from the National Academy of Science about improving our teaching<\/p>\n

http:\/\/books.nap.edu\/html\/str\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Access Excellence (Biology teaching resources) http:\/\/www.accessexcellence.org\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

NSF’s ‘FIRST’ program (see http:\/\/darkwing.uoregon.edu\/~jhodder\/inquiry.htm<\/u><\/a><\/span> and links from there) is aimed at using field experiences and field stations to engage students in science<\/p>\n

SUNY buffalo has a fantastic collection of case studies at http:\/\/ublib.buffalo.edu\/libraries\/projects\/cases\/case.html<\/u><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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UA has some great sources too: http:\/\/www.uakron.edu\/biology\/<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Intro Ecology @ Villanova: http:\/\/oikos.villanova.edu\/courses\/~3255\/labs\/index.html<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Pollination labs: http:\/\/www.life.umd.edu\/Faculty\/inouye\/Pollination%20Exercises\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Woodlice online: http:\/\/www.geocities.com\/CapeCanaveral\/Hangar\/7649\/wlice.htm<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/ecomisconceptions.binghamton.edu\/index.htm<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here are some links I find useful for improving education (and some that are just fun) Understanding Science – from UC Berkeley. lots of general science stuff. http:\/\/undsci.berkeley.edu\/index.php\u00a0 Bioliteracy project. Lots about misconceptions and similar issues. http:\/\/bioliteracy.net\/ Catalog and discussion … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2555,"featured_media":0,"parent":619,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-full-width.php","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-811","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/mitchell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/mitchell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/mitchell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/mitchell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2555"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/mitchell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=811"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/mitchell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":843,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/mitchell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/811\/revisions\/843"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/mitchell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/mitchell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}