Primary literature across the undergraduate curriculum: teaching science process skills and content: Summary and comments from the workshop “101 ways to effectively use journal articles as teaching tools” presented at the 2011 ESA Annual Meeting

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ECO 101 is highlighting some of the ecological education workshops and presentations from the 2011 ESA Annual Meeting.Because of travel or concurrent sessions, some of you may have missed these, so here are summaries from two workshops and one presentation.Other interested presenters are encouraged to submit summaries to Bill Bromer.Emily Rauschert, Joseph Dauer, Jennifer L. Momsen, and Ariana Sutton-Grier presented a workshop titled "101 Ways to Effectively Use Journal Articles as Teaching Tools."They show us a number (not sure there are exactly 101 but who is counting) of ways to use primary literature to meet a multitude of learning objectives, primarily in the undergraduate classroom, but many of the approaches can be used in other settings.They also present some feedback and comments from the participants, so it is almost as if you were there.David Grisé , Courtney Lee, Caitlin Bailey, and Mariela Rivera summarize their workshop "Understanding and Implementing Team-Based Learning in Large Lecture Courses."This workshop actually engaged the participants in a Team-Based Learning (TBL) activity to demonstrate the use of TBL in both large and small classes.Finally, Bryan Dewsbury summarizes his presentation of "The Teaching Pentagon: A Quantitative, Integrative Approach to Teaching Ecology."Bryan describes a curricular structure that integrates a laboratory course, journal club, peer-led team learning, and a mathematics course, with a traditional biology lecture course, in order to make connections among a variety of disciplines and provide a holistic educational experience for students.