models with climate and land use scenarios to see how the lakes respond Explanation Engage In-class students in discussion of scientific the effects of discourse, the different climate and reasoning land use scenarios Expansion Broaden Assessing students’ cross-scale schemata to interactions account for by comparing more combined observations climate + land use scenarios to separate climate and land use model output; comparing how multiple lakes respond to the same scenarios Evaluation Evaluate In-class students’ discussion of understanding, how climate using formative change and and summative land use assessments change can affect phytoplankton blooms in lakes Learning Objectives By the end of this module, students will be able to: Understand the concepts of macrosystems ecology and cross-scale interactions, and how different ecological processes can interact at local, regional, and continental scales.
models with climate and land use scenarios to see how the lakes respond Explanation Engage students in scientific discourse, reasoning In-class discussion of the effects of the different climate and land use scenarios Expansion Broaden students’ schemata to account for more observations Assessing cross-scale interactions by comparing combined climate + land use scenarios to separate climate and land use model output; comparing how multiple lakes respond to the same scenarios Evaluation Evaluate students’ understanding, using formative and summative assessments In-class discussion of how climate change and land use change can affect phytoplankton blooms in lakes Learning Objectives By the end of this module, students will be able to: Understand the concepts of macrosystems ecology and cross-scale interactions, and how different ecological processes can interact at local, regional, and continental scales.