中海拔原始森林探索活動及微專題實驗操作應用於生態學的教學實踐歷程

The Teaching Portfolio for Application of Expedition Activities in Medial Altitude Primary Forest and Practice of Term Projects in Ecology Class

為達到生態學的教學目的，增進學生認識在地生態系，將課堂上的知識與自然界所看見的現實互相印證，生態學課程自2009年至2015年連續6年均安排連續2日的中海拔森林探索活動，探索教學場所為新竹縣鎮西堡部落神木群及高山湖泊毒龍潭。實驗課程也設計成微專題的方式操作，專題實驗的場所包含新竹市近郊的十八尖山、高峰植物園及沿海的香山溼地，從2010年至2015年共執行31個微專題實驗。部分實驗為不同年度之間的延續實驗，所有微專題實驗的類型皆為小規模獨立研究，實驗結果同時在學期末以海報展示及作者口頭報告方式呈現。本課程的戶外教學及專題實驗除了課室的延伸之外，也藉此活動深化學生與土地之聯結，探索活動目標為實地見習人類生態學、地景生態學、森林群聚生態學、湖沼生態學、族群生態學及演化生態學。 In ecology class, from 2009 to 2015 in six consecutive years, for the sake of achieving teaching objectives and increasing the student’s cognition of local ecosystem, an expedition activity was carried out for the period of two days in medial altitude primary forest in each year. The activities implemented at giant trees forest and high land pound Du-Long-Tan near to Cinsbu tribal unit locate in Hsinchu county. The ecological laboratories of this class were designed as half semester term projects, and carried out from 2010 to 2015 in five consecutive years. Total of 31 term projects were conducted at Shi-Ba- Jian-Shan (Eighteen peak mountain), Gao-Feng floristic garden and Xiang- Shan wetland near to the center of Shinchu city. Some of the projects were the continuum studies of previous year. All the term projects were similar to small scale independent research, the study results were presented by oral report and poster exhibition at end of semester simultaneously. The content of expedition activity and field term project studies were extended from teaching class, and also tried to make deeper connections between students and the land they lived on it. The goal of expedition activities are seeing and learning human ecology, landscape ecology, forest community ecology, limnology, population ecology and evolutionary ecology.