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Read the following assignments with
an eye for how they can be modified for use in your own courses.
Try including a mix of both formal and informal assignments.
NOTE: Some links are
PDF documents and require Adobe acrobat reader to access them.
Informal
writing assignments
The magic of assigning writing that
you don't grade is that students often feel more free to express
their own voice. Students also get the message that writing is
a great a tool for working through muddy ideas.
Journals
Thought paragraphs
Study site assignments- Check out this
set of assignments if you are looking for a way to encourage
students to integrate what they are learning in class with real
world situations.
Study site exercise
Study site journals
Study site criteria
Winter journal
Writing on fundamentals
#1 Evolution Spring 1998
Formal
writing assignments
REVISION, REVISION REVISION. Whatever
you choose for your repetoire of wriitng assignments - be sure
to include ample time/guidance for revision!
Letters
Global warming - 2 audiences
Kansas Board of Education letter
Letters- biodiversity
Ithaca Times letter
Short (under 4 pages, double spaced)
Sexual selection/species concept
Refuting argument
What is ecology?
Implications of global warming for
forest ecosystems paper
Hypothesis development
Seminar report
Science "box"
Position paper
Hypothesis testing
Research topic blurb
"Nothing in biology" essay

Long
Fictional species
by Jessica Bolker, UNH
Communicating evolutionary
concepts by Jessica Bolker, UNH
Ecological research question
Choice paper
Human mate choice research paper
Several stage research proposal:
Proposal idea
Research proposal: library assignment
Rationale for several stage proposal
Potential topics for evolution papers
Natural selection topics
Animal behavior topic ideas
Conservation/Finger Lakes Land Trust
Phylogeny paper
Phenetic analysis
Scientific paper- Kin recognition
Integrated Pest Management essay
Student's choice paper

Last updated September
26, 2001
Comments, questions or new links? Contact Anne at astork@cisunix.unh.edu
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