The first Ecosystem Ecology Workshop in 2010 featured seven modules (lessons) that supported the teaching of climate change. The second workshop in 2012 presented materials that were refined based on feedback from teachers in the previous workshop.
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Denise participates with teachers in the Radioactive Decay Activity (A Lesson with Dice).
Carolyn discusses the curriculum materials with a teacher.
A lab instrument measuring a plant’s absorptive spectrum.
The Morrow Plots at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Carolyn presents a sediment core model made out of sugar.
Melissa helps teachers analyze the data they generated during the Radioactive Decay Activity.
Teachers view climate-controlled treatment groups at the greenhouse.
Teachers tour the Bioenergy Farm on the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign campus.
Melissa describes a sediment core to teachers during a lab tour.
Mike explains his research to teachers during a lab tour.
During the workshop, teachers experience the Climbing the Pyramid activity as their students would in the classroom.
Ryan (foreground) helps teachers manipulate the environmental models.
Melissa (far right) demonstrates to teachers how sediment cores are used in climate science.
A lake sediment core from the Hu lab.
Hu lab field site camp at Orion Lake in Alaska.
An instrument measures a plant’s absorptive spectrum.
