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- Grade Range
- 10th - 12th
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Students become familiar with the natural history and reproductive patterns of the white-tailed deer. They race the history of the white-tailed deer in Pennsylvania and study environmental changes that caused their numbers to increase to present levels. Full Review »
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- 9th
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Students describe the typical white-tailed deer in PA. They discuss the positive and negative impacts that white-tail deer have on the flora and fauna of PA. They explain the concept of managing a deer herd. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th
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Students estimate the deer population in a given area over a 5-year period. They suggest possible management tools to prevent overpopulation. They discuss the PA Game Commission's management procedure in which not only buck but also doe must be harvested. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 12th
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Students see how analysis of spatial data enhance highway safety, showing the relationship between deer movement and traffic collisions. They use geospatial technologies to evaluate the patterns of deer movement to enhance public safety. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th - 5th
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Students discuss the components necessary to keep animal populations alive . Then they participate in a game where they interact as deer, food, water, and shelter. The activity demonstrates that nature is not static, but changes with the environment. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th - 8th
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Students practice deer "body language" in a predator/prey simulation. They play a gane where some represent wolves and the others represent deer. They learn deer alarm body movements and communicate with each other using them. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th - 6th
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Students play a game where half of them are deer and the others are components of habitat: food, water, shelter and space. They signify their needs by hand gestures and take what they need to their side of the game. They discuss real life factors. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th - 7th
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Students, in groups, reach a consensus on decisions about the rise and fall of the coyote and deer populations. One report is submitted from each group. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th - 6th
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Students study the survival strategies of deer during the winter. They investigate the resistance behavior of white tailed deer to winter conditions after discussing migration, hibernation, and resistance as survival techniques. They participate in a field trip into a deer yard in the winter and write about their experience. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students investigate the importance of white-tailed deer and their impact on forest environments. They visit learning centers to simulate being a white-tailed deer and work in groups. After visiting a forest they share their information about forests and deer. Full Review »
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