A well designed research project will incorporate all of the stages of inquiry; designing a study, analyzing data, interpreting results, and writing a report of one's findings. Click here to learn more about the process of Scientific Inquiry. The ecological concepts of biological diversity, complexity, ecological knowledge, and experimentation are central to studying any ecological system. Click here to read about each of these ecological concepts.
To facilitate using the resources available on the Ecoplexity website in the classroom, you can design a Student Portal to be used by your students. This feature allows you to select a subset of pages from our website, provide links to external websites, upload files and images, and encourage collaboration among students through a blog specific to your class. The items you choose to include in your Student Portal are publicly available to students from anywhere they have internet access.
The Student Portal is also an excellent opportunity to conduct cross-site comparative studies with students in other departments, across the country, or around the world. Imagine the potential of students from different latitudes, climates, or hemispheres following identical protocols to study similar organisms from their home regions. Much of the Ecoplexity website is available in Spanish translation. Click here to view a sample Student Portal.
Click here to view write-ups from past research projects.
There are several external links to scientific journals that you might find useful as well.
