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This training module introduces watershed ecology. Understanding watershed structure and natural processes is crucial to grasping how human activities can degrade or improve the condition of a watershed, including its water quality, its fish and wildlife, Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students personify ecology vocabulary and write a one-act play using their knowledge of ecology as the basis for characters, conflict, setting and plot. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students describe the basic concepts of population demography. They collect a wide range of data from an online cemetery database including a variety of places across the U.S. They analyze factors that may have affected human demography over time. Full Review »
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- 7th - 12th
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Students design and build an ecologically balanced living space based on the principles of an old-growth forest. They redesign one part of their homes in accordance with the forest cycle. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students investigate the physical, chemical and biological parameters necessary to establish an ecological baseline. Establishing an ecological baseline not only shows the ecological characteristics of a creek but makes the possible future environmental monitoring of the creek as human activities increase the stress on the system. Full Review »
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- 8th
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Students discover their own ecological footprint and create a plan for reducing this figure. They extend this to the school and community to see how they are doing on this scale. They discuss the concept of the ecological footprint and why it is an important benchmark. Full Review »
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- 7th
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Students are introduced to the topic of ecology with hands-on opportunities. They are provided with visual reference points from a professional park ranger. They relate the ecology unit to their own experiences through the use of a neighborhood park. Full Review »
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- 7th - 12th
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Students respond to a reading passage concerning human effects (urban development) in Madagascar. They list the numerous ways humans and environment are linked. They participate in class discussion of questions concerning human effects on the environment. Full Review »
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- 9th - 10th
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Students discuss the hierarchy of an ecosystem. They are asked what are the optimum conditions that support human life? Students are asked what are their personal "optimum conditions" are. They are given the following as the question of the day: The study of the interactions betwee living things and theire environment is know as what? Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students engage in the problem solving process for determining the problem and solution to an ecological problem. They pick a problem that needs to be solved and then illustrate the cause and effect relationship it has upon the environment while proposing possible solutions. Full Review »
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