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Although the case method has been used for years to teach law, business, and medicine, it is not common in science. Yet the use of case studies holds great promise as a pedagogical technique for teaching science, particularly to undergraduates, because it humanizes science and well illustrates...

Program Description: The Sustainable Facilities Operation Associate Degree program, created by professionals at Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC), is designed to help prepare students to manage facility operations in roles such as energy manager, facilities manager, maintenance supervisor,...

This page from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) offers a set of tutorials, online tools, FAQs, and documentation to help users make full use of NCBI's bioinformatics tools. The tutorials, which target both new and veteran users, cover NCBI's BLAST and PSI-BLAST, the Entrez...

Resource Description: This resource is provided by the Northwest Center for Sustainable Resources, and includes laboratory activities developed for a series of Environmental Science courses. Environment Science is a series of three courses developed by Chemeketa Community College that addresses...

Course Description: Published by the Northwest Center for Sustainable Resources, this is a capstone course for natural resources and fisheries technology programs that follows Aquatic Field and Laboratory Methods I. In the first half of the course students learn techniques for water quality...

This 90-page guide explains community-based education and ecosystem management as organizing frameworks around natural resource-based studies. The manuals purpose is to generate ideas, provide support, and highlight an organizational template for educators that will allow that process of a...

This module helps students practice and gain skills in "evaluating claims made in written accounts of environmental issues." Students evaluate an article on a current environmental topic using the following questions: "What do we accept as evidence? What is the source of the evidence? What is the...

Module Description: This module is intended to help students understand human impacts on the environment. The module includes four components: One Planet Many People - Atlas of Our Changing Environment, Ecological Footprint Analysis, A description of other sources of remote sensing imagery and...

This 56-page manual provides an overview for the introductory Forest Surveying course. In this course "students are introduced to basic forest surveying techniques including the fundamentals of horizontal and vertical measurements. This course also introduces students to planimetric and topographic...

This 115-page guide provides a variety of laboratory, classroom, and field activities that can be used to introduce students to the concept of ecosystem-based natural resource management. The guide is divided into three, sections - Watershed Ecosystems, Soils and Ornithology. "The first section -...