Forestry Field Studies: A Manual for Science Teachers
Author: Donald Dickmann
Publisher: NSTA Press
Published: 2009-10-16
Total Pages: 111
ISBN-13: 1936137984
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Author: Donald Dickmann
Publisher: NSTA Press
Published: 2009-10-16
Total Pages: 111
ISBN-13: 1936137984
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Alberto Mimo
Publisher: Field and Laboratory Techniques in Ecology and Natural History
Published: 2019-02-18
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780974141121
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat Are Field and Laboratory Technique Manuals?This field and laboratory techniques manual will provide you, as a teacher, with the opportunity to engage your students in doing a research project.In the last ten years, science education has been changing from asking students to memorize texts and facts to empowering students to do hands-on research. It is clear that students should not only memorize facts, but also should be able to process these facts and build on them. Experimentation based on known facts with the objective of learning new things by trial and error is what science is all about.Over time, we have learned that the scientific method is not covered properly in all schools. Many students do not know what the scientific method is. And if they do know, they are unable to apply it to real-life scientific projects. We have also learned that in many cases, teachers are not able to come up with good experiments, and when they do, the methods used in the experiments to complete the research may not be sound and may lack scientific validity.I have developed a number of field and laboratory techniques throughout my career to provide teachers with the necessary tools to get their students involved in projects that require a hands-on approach and application of the scientific method.I have listed a number of field and laboratory technique applications here ranging from themes in mathematics all the way to techniques in forestry. All the activities are related to ecology and the environmental sciences. Each booklet found on the CD provides you with one application. In each booklet, all found in my website. I give you the information you will need to engage your students in a research project. I have always said that "the questions are more important than the answers". This field and laboratory techniques manual will provide you with a great opportunity to ask good questions and have the students come up with answers without looking them up in a single textbook. The manual will provide you with an introduction, the methods and materials you will need to obtain the results, blank forms to collect the data, and suggestions on how to analyze the data and come up with the results. But, let your students analyze the methods and contribute their own grain of sand to the project by finding constructive approaches to improve the methodologies.Most of these field and laboratory techniques will get the students very involved and should be implemented with plenty of time to let the students think and dissect each project. The results are not as important as the methods used to design the experiments, and the ability of the students to improve the methods. These projects should be done by groups of individuals, and not by one student. Students should be able to discuss the techniques, design their own forms, redesign methods, and have one hundred percent input on the scientific process used to study each case. Let the students organize and direct the outcome of the project. We need to nurture their creativity and allow them to make mistakes. Step back, and let them do the work!
Author: University of Michigan. College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
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Published: 1910
Total Pages: 20
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: L. DEVERE. BURTON
Publisher: Learning
Published: 2012-02-23
Total Pages: 72
ISBN-13: 9781111308407
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Instructor's Manual serves as an instructional resource and includes a listing of chapter objectives, teaching tips, instructional strategies, learning activities, and an answer key for end of chapter discussion and review questions.
Author: Alfred Arthur Doppel
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Published: 1925
Total Pages: 232
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: L. DeVere Burton
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Published: 2017-11-16
Total Pages: 544
ISBN-13: 9781337904568
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPractical, easy to understand, and up-to-date, INTRODUCTION TO FORESTRY SCIENCE, Third Edition provides readers with a comprehensive overview of the principles and practices of forest management that are commonly practiced in the United States. Appropriate for anyone interested in forestry or natural resources, this book is filled with visual aids and tools as well as career profiles which give readers an overview of what it might be like to work in the forest industry and demonstrate how concepts are applied in the real world. In addition to covering the basics of the biological processes necessary for the creation of forests, topics such as the economic impact of forests on the U.S. economy, government historical events and policies, regional differences in forests and forest management, and laws and regulations that govern the use of forests are presented.
Author: Willard McCarty
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2022-03-29
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 1000566455
DOWNLOAD EBOOKScience in the Forest, Science in the Past: Further Interdisciplinary Explorations comprises of papers from the second of two workshops involving a group of scholars united in the conviction that the great diversity of knowledge claims and practices for which we have evidence must be taken seriously in their own terms rather than by the yardstick of Western modernity. Bringing to bear social anthropology, history and philosophy of science, computer science, classics and sinology among other fields, they argue that the use of such dismissive labels as ‘magic’, ‘superstition’ and the ‘irrational’ masks rather than solves the problem and reject counsels of despair which assume or argue that radically alien beliefs are strictly unintelligible to outsiders and can be understood only from within the system in question. At the same time, they accept that how to proceed to a better understanding of the data in question poses a formidable challenge. Key problems identified in the inaugural workshop, whose proceedings were published in HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory (2019) and in HAU Books (2020), provided the basis for asking how obvious pitfalls might be avoided and a new or revised framework within which to pursue these problems proposed. The chapters in this book were originally published in Interdisciplinary Science Reviews.