Jon Sweetman

Examining changes in Waterfowl Diversity and Climate Change part of Project EDDIE:News & Events:EDDIE Workshops:Workshop: Teaching Quantitative Reasoning with Data:Teaching Activities
Students will calculate and compare long-term trends in regional diversity based on online annual survey data of breeding waterfowl population data (available from the USFWS). They will make predictions on how ...

Building student confidence in quantitative analyses using locally-relevant ecological data sets part of Project EDDIE:News & Events:EDDIE Workshops:Workshop: Teaching Quantitative Reasoning with Data:Essays
An essay page from the Project EDDIE website discusses strategies for enhancing undergraduate students' confidence in quantitative ecological analyses through the use of locally-relevant, long-term environmental datasets, hands-on citizen-science projects, and scaffolded active learning modules to mitigate math anxiety and improve quantitative literacy in a 300-level ecology course.