Are you looking for activities that help your students learn
ecological content and how to work with real data? The Rocky Mountain
Biological Laboratory, with funding from NSF, has created Digital
RMBL (<http://digitalrmbl.com>digitalrmbl.com). Digital RMBL contains
four inquiry-based modules that join a major concept, an RMBL data
set, and an important set of inquiry skills with teaching strategies.
Digital RMBL also includes lots of rich contextual pages for students
to explore. We are seeking collaborators to try out the Digital RMBL
resources in their undergraduate courses and provide feedback.
Digital RMBL Modules:
* Biology of Climate Change presents long-term weather and
phenology observations collected by resident hermit billy barr, a
PNAS paper by David Inouye, and asks students to use the updated data
sets to evaluate if the conclusions made still hold one decade later.
* Pollination Biology introduces students to the wide variety of
pollination research at RMBL, while building skills in reading
primary scientific literature.
* Ecology of Fear provides a thorough examination of the
experimental designs of non-consumptive species interactions in two
RMBL case studies, followed by an opportunity to design and conduct
an experiment in animal behavior.
* Explore RMBL Data encourages students to ask and answer new
questions from existing data. This module features data from a
long-term sub-alpine meadow warming experiment conducted by John Harte.
Please check out Digital RMBL and contact us if you are interested in
learning more about this opportunity to collaborate.
Amy Ellwein, Ph.D.
Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory
<http://www.rmbl.org/>http://www.rmbl.org/
<http://digitalrmbl.com>digitalrmbl.com
amy AT rmbl DOT org
