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The Floristic Relay Game: A Board Game to Teach Plant Community Succession and Disturbance Dynamics

This game introduces students to the concept of succession and plant community dynamics. Students learn that plant communities are dynamic (they change over time and space), and that these changes result from interactions between plants and biotic and abiotic aspects of their environments, as well as random events. Students play a board game in which each student represents an imaginary plant species. Students explore plant community dynamics by interacting with each other and responding to chance events.
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Resource Group TIEE
Resource Group Link https://ecoed.esa.org/index.php?P=SearchResults&F46=TIEE
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Life science discipline (subject)
Keywords dynamic; change; time; plant; succession; community; interaction; disturbance; TIEE; pedagogy; student active; inquiry based
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Pedagogical Use Description The authors designed this game to teach plant community dynamics because a game with dynamic rules is an effective way to teach a dynamic subject. Students can easily learn complicated sets of rules in order to play a fun game, and the game allows students to watch community dynamics that would take many years to observe in nature within a single class period. Unlike other lessons that are limited to regional examples of succession, this game can be played anywhere in the world. At the end of the game, students report on the results and discuss with the class what they have learned. To apply their new knowledge, students predict changes in the community and attempt to make the community change in specific ways.
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Url http://tiee.esa.org/vol/v3/experiments/floristic/abstract.html
Full Name of Primary Author Elena Ortiz-Barney
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Primary Author Affiliation Arizona State University
Primary Author email elena.ortiz- elena.ortiz@pcmail.maricopa.edu
barney@pcmail.maricopa.edu
jstrom@asu.edu
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Rights Copyright 2005 by Elena Ortiz-Barney, Juliet C. Stromberg, Vanessa B. Beauchamp, and the Ecological Society of America.
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Drought and Water Ecosystem Services Collection Off
Conservation Targets Under Global Change Collection Off
Big Data Collection Off
Editors Choice No
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Date Of Record Submission 2007-11-05
I Agree to EcoEdDL's Copyright Policy & Terms of Use No
Date Of Record Release 2010-02-16 01:28:32
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Date Last Modified 2018-07-25 09:19:59
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