Framing familiar environmental issues in everyday language -whether the topic is a Gulf Coast oil spill or the spread of Lyme disease -may be the key to successfully engaging high school students with conservation biology research in their ecology classes. A study, presented in the latest issue of Conservation Biology by Yael Wyner, an assistant professor at the City College of New York, and Rob DeSalle, a curator in the Division of Invertebrate Zoology at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), advocates a pedagogical model where students learn about normal ecological processes (biodiversity and ecological integrity) by studying what goes wrong when human actions disturb those processes.
New approach helps teachers integrate conservation biology into high school ecology classes
- PhysOrg
- 8. 7 2010 (18:23)