2022 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Virtual Conference
March 13 - 15, 2022
6/08/2017 | 11:30 AM - 11:45 AM | AN APPROACH TO TEACHING URBAN ECOLOGY TO STUDENTS OF THE ARTS USING LEAF PACKS. | 301A
AN APPROACH TO TEACHING URBAN ECOLOGY TO STUDENTS OF THE ARTS USING LEAF PACKS.
Science courses are a new thing at RISD, and we are constantly experimenting with them, so to speak! Involving some artistic expression is often used—it is a method of communicating one’s understanding of concepts and analyses through visual, not verbal, means. For three years I have used leaf packs to conduct a modified version of the experimental protocol as a semester project in my course, Urban Ecology: How Wildlife Interacts with an Urbanizing Landscape. Constructing, setting up and collecting the leaf packs are hands-on activities that these students relish. The goal is to take the data that we collect and process as a class and, in small groups, spatially analyze the land-use surrounding the spots where we sampled. The spatial analyses must be quantitative, but are done in different ways, depending upon each group’s consensus on how to categorize land-use and quantify it—with or without any technological tools. They consider both elements together to form a hypothesis and ultimately a conclusion about the impacts of land-use on adjacent aquatic communities. Ultimately, we hope to produce infographics of our results for outreach programs.
- C23 Education
- C08 Urban Ecology
- S11 Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Freshwater Science
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Maria Aliberti-Lubertazzi
(), RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN, MALIBERT@RISD.EDU;
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