Economics, Sustainability and Natural Resources- Economic value of biotic resources, pristine and negative. Health and Global Change - Organisms transport systems, oceans atmosphere. Systems Concepts - All aspects of systems integration. Principles of biological process - everything is linked to everything. Approaches to Student Learning Advanced Organizers -used as a cognitive link to prior knowledge in order to bridge to new information the student will be expected to learn.
Advanced organizers are usually visual ie radar diagrams, weather images.
The visual image plus the questioning process forms the cognitive link to enable students to learn the theory behind their observations. Have students write down key ideas they have heard or any questions they might have. Continue lecture to next break point and repeat the procedure. At the end of the class, ask students to form pairs and to share a summary of what they had hear, what they think were important points and what questions occurred to them. End class by summarizing what understandings they should have and the main points of the lecture.