"Faculty workshops in field ecology
at Archbold: an opportunity to enrich
the teaching of ecology for
your undergraduate students"

Project FIRST Workshops 1999 at
Archbold Biological Station
P.O. Box 2057 Lake Placid, Florida 33862 USA
Phone: 863-465-2571 FAX: 863-699-1927
Email: archbold@archbold-station.org

• Project FIRST Web site
• Project FIRST Bibliography

Project Co-Directors

Dr. Jan Hodder,Oregon Institute of Marine Biology, Charleston, OR 97420.
Phone: 541-888-2581, x215
Email: jhodder@oimb.uoregon.edu

Dr. Diane Ebert-May, Director, Lyman Briggs School, Michigan State University, E-27 Holmes Hall, East lansing, MI 48825.
Phone: 517-432-2758
Email: ebertmay@pilot.msu.edu

Saturday | Sunday | "How and Why Walk" | oak gall project  

Friday, 5 February 1999

17:00  Arrival, registration, check into lodging -- Front office

17:30  Welcome Social – meet other teams & Archbold staff -- Dining room

18:00  Evening meal -- Dining room

19:00  Welcome and Introductions -- Auditorium

• Welcome to Archbold Biological Station
• Review of background material, notebooks and planned outline of workshop
• Background to project FIRST (proposal, goals, the Organization of Biological Field Stations, participating field stations, preparation for this workshop)
• Archbold Faculty Workshops (introduction to participating institutions, selection process, introduction of team members)

19:30  Goals of the Archbold Faculty Workshops  -- Auditorium

• Overview of goals
• Institutional team reports on ongoing effective inquiry – based teaching approach(es)
• Review of field sites that faculty currently use (Map Charette)
• Discussion of the role of field courses in addressing environmental degradation Auditorium

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07:00  Breakfast -- Dining Room

08:00  Tour of Archbold facilities: Research Labs, Library, Computer Information Center, GIS Lab --  Start at Auditorium

08:30  Review of Activities for the Day; Introduction to "How and Why Walk"  -- Auditorium

08:45  "How and Why Walk" -- Jay Trail  Home | Top

10:30  Coffee break -- Auditorium and Hall

10:45 - 12:00  "How and Why Walk" session -- Auditorium

• 10:45 Teams review field notes
• 11:00 Debriefing
• 11:45 Discussion/Evaluation

12:00  Lunch -- Dining Room

13:00  Introduction to the Oak Gall Project -- Auditorium  Home | Top

• Inquiry based learning – review of the OTS approach
• The relevance of a field station for student inquiry based learning
• Materials and methods for oak gall field project

13:45  Travel to oak gall field sites -- depart from Auditorium

14:00  Collect field data for Oak Gall Project -- Scrub sites

17:00  Break

18:00  BBQ Supper --  Dining Room

19:00  Oak Gall Project -- Computer Center, Library, General Lab

• Data entry and data management
• Data analysis
• Preparation of oral presentation

19:00  Socializing…….. Auditorium

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08:30  Oral presentations - Oak Gall Project (8 minutes each, plus 4 minutes for questions) -- Auditorium

09:35  Discussion/Evaluation of Oak-Gall project -- Auditorium

09:45  Review of Cooperative Learning Techniques --  Auditorium

• Already utilized
• Other techniques

10:15  Institutional Teams prepare draft outline of team field project and exercises they wish to develop in upcoming spring/summer workshop. -- Computer Center, Library, General Lab

11:15  Poster (gallery) presentations and reviews of proposed field projects --   Auditorium

11:30  Question and Answer --  Auditorium

• Dates, timetable, schedule for next workshop

11:45  Discussion/Evaluation of February workshop -- Auditorium

12:00  Close, lunch or bag lunch available -- Dining Room

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