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Kids Into Discovering Science: A Framework for Place-Based, Hands-On Ecology
The Kids Into Discovering Science (KiDS) curriculum, designed for 5th grade students, includes 10 classroom lesson plans and one field trip lesson plan centered on a plant science experiment. Over 10 lessons and a field day, students practice observation, set up and monitor an experiment, analyze and present their data, and learn about plant ecology, soil ecology, habitats, and their local...
Publisher: EcoEd Digital Library
PlantEd Digital Library
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The Invasive Grass-Fire Cycle in the U.S. Great Basin
Students will exercise critical thinking skills to form a hypothesis on how cheatgrass alters fire behaviors. Students will analyze data and answer questions based on their interpretation of field-based data and satellite data. Using this information, students will collaborate to create maps and graphs.
This activity is included in Volume 8 of Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology...
Publisher: EcoEd Digital Library
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Teaching Exponential and Logistic Growth in a Variety of Classroom and Laboratory Settings
Ecology and conservation biology contain numerous examples of
populations growing without bounds or shrinking towards extinction. For these
populations, the change in the number of individuals generally follows an
exponential curve. On the other hand, limited resources may keep population
numbers in check and help maintain the population at the environment's carrying
capacity. These...
Publisher: EcoEd Digital Library
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Investigating the Ecology of West Nile Virus in the United States
Use maps, online databases, and peer-reviewed literature to:
(1) learn background information on
WNV (history of emergence in the US; life cycle, hosts, and vectors; different forms of WNV
disease and susceptibility of various human age groups) and
(2) generate and test hypotheses
correlating human, avian, and mosquito WNV infection with avian biodiversity,
presence/abundance of different...
Publisher: EcoEd Digital Library
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4DEE Resource - Annotated Syllabus for Field Botany at Wilkes University
This resource is a syllabus for a Field Botany course at Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, PA. The course is offered during the summer of even-numbered years. The syllabus has been annotated to show how it addresses the four dimensions of the 4DEE framework.
Publisher: EcoEd Digital Library
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