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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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- 6th - 8th
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Students explain how ecology is at work in their hometown everyday. They define and give examples of ecology terms. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 8th
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Students conduct an ecological assessment of a small area on school property and apply findings to the greater area. They inventory the plant and animal population of a sample area and extrapolate results to a larger area. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students identify ecological elements and their factors on species, populations and food webs. They analyze ecosystems for these elements and research how these factors influence species survival rate. Predictions on conditions over time and change are documented. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students examine how ecology is at work in their own community. As a class, they identify what they already know about the world around them and discuss how they personally affect the environment. Using magazines, newspapers and the internet, they find a picture to represent the terms given to them during the lesson. Full Review »
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- 11th - Higher Ed
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Students investigate the role of Daphnia magna as an index organism, i.e., a species whose health within an ecosystem indicates the over-all ecological health of that ecosystem. They use the biotechnological tool of the bioassay to demonstrate the effects of toxic substances on living organisms. Full Review »
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- 9th - Higher Ed
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Students use this lab as a follow up to the introduction of the ecosystems and productivity levels, bioassays and what and how they measure, and Daphnia magna as an index organism, i.e., a species whose health within an ecosystem indicate the over-all ecological health of the ecosystem. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students are able to transcribe to scale the plant features of a common landscape. They determine true north and south and collect and record data on a table. Students calculate a rating for and describe a definition of insulation and insulation. They determine the 'ecological quality' of a landscape in a quantifiable manner. 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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- 9th - 10th
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Students draw food chains and food webs and also, create ecological pyramids and use appropriate terminology to describe what the pyramids represent. They identify and define ecology and why it is important. Finally, students share results from numbers pyramids and identify how the changes in the lower, bigger levels of the pyramid affect the upper levels. Full Review »
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