ISRIC
ISRIC – World Soil Information – is a new site dedicated to soil mapping, data sharing and education. It contains recent soil maps and soil related information. Very useful for looking at soils over a wide area.
Role-Playing Scenaros
Role-Playing Scenarios – another part of the massive Carleton University Geoscience Department’s offerings in geology learning, teaching and pedagogy. The range of material in geoscience is impressive and even ideas such as these can be adapted to a range of teaching situations. This is a first-rate site worth exploring. To start looking at the whole site, go here.
National Science Foundation
National Science Foundation is a US independent government agency founded in 1950 to promote science. This it does but it also has a great education programme with lots of useful links and science ideas. The best section seems to be Discoveries, but try the rest of the site.
Experiments in Ecology
Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology is a site, run by the ecological Society of America, dedicated to helping staff improve their range of teaching methods and resources in ecological education. Although obviously focussed on the US and aimed at junior undergraduates, this site contains a wealth of ideas and data. Even if the areas don’t suit, it will be possible to adapt ideas for local conditions.
Effective Learning in the Life Sciences
Rating: David J Adams. (ed). 2011. Effective Learning in the Life Sciences: how students can reach their full potential. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978 0 470 66157 4. The whole idea of re-vamping this site was to include areas that overlapped (intersected!) and that added a range of new ideas and discourses to ecology. Here we have one of the first in this new system, a product of collaboration within the UK Centre for Bioscience at the Higher Education Academy. The aim […]
