These "Basic PEWI Exercises" contains outlines for five short activities intended to introduce undergraduate students to the following ecological concepts:
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This PowerPoint presentation may helpful in introducing PEWI: PEWIIntroduction_supportingpresentation.pptx (12 MB)
This lesson plan asks students to imagine themselves as a city planning commission tasked with developing a land-use plan with specific ecosystem services in mind. The lesson includes two short exercises that utilize PEWI and recommended discussion questions that help students understand ecosystem services tradeoffs. This lesson has been successfully used with undergraduate and graduate students, and could be adapted for use with adult learners.
Download Land-use Planning Exercise.docx (16 KB).
The Ecosystem Services Lab outlines three exercises that utilize PEWI within an undergraduate classroom to teach students about Ecological Functions and Targeting and Tradeoffs. The third lesson allows to students to design their ideal watershed. Lesson outlines also contain suggestions for how to modify exercises for graduate students.
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This document outlines a group project wherein undergraduate or graduate students use PEWI to create and compare four landscape designs. Students are asked to submit a detailed project report discussing multifunctional benefits within their designs and how their land-use scenarios may be viewed by diverse stakeholder groups. To provide background and a theoretical foundation, the project utilizes Atwell, R. C., L. A. Schulte, and L. M. Westphal. 2011. Tweak, Adapt, or Transform: Policy Scenarios in Response to Emerging Bioenergy Markets in the US Corn Belt. Ecology and Society 16.
Download Landscape Design Group Project.pdf (569 KB)
The associated Atwell et al. publication is freely available directly from the journal Ecology and Society here.
