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Peacock, Julie; Bacon, Karen L. – Higher Education Pedagogies, 2018
Students undertook a one-hour urban ecology activity based on the University of Leeds campus. The aims of the session were (1) to help students to link ecological theory to practice and (2) to encourage students to begin to think about and develop an online professional identity. Students were encouraged to tweet throughout the session and were…
Descriptors: Ecology, College Students, Theory Practice Relationship, Professional Identity
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Bacon, Karen L.; Peacock, Julie – New Directions in the Teaching of Physical Sciences, 2016
University campuses provide an accessible, cheap and useful means of teaching ecology to undergraduate students. We describe a short campus-based activity that was trialed in the 2015- 16 academic year to engage first year physical geography students with both ecology and urban ecology. Students undertook a 40-minute investigation of the campus to…
Descriptors: Ecology, Science Instruction, College Science, Campuses