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Behavioral Ecology Lesson Plans
Find teacher approved Behavioral Ecology lesson plan ideas and activities
In this lesson learners examine animal behaviors. In this field study lesson, learners review animal behaviors that help them survive and reproduce. They observe the behavior of an animal and report their findings. The lesson is created for Alaskan wildlife but can easily be adapted for any region.
Students investigate the different hormone contaminants in the water supply. In this math lesson, students analyze data tables and graphs. They demonstrate exponential growth and decay using frog populations.
This lesson has students watch slide show describing life cycle and migration routes of monarch butterflies, create model monarch butterflies, and examine overwintering biology and behavior ecology of monarchs to determine whether monarch aggregations are behavioral adaptation for protection from winter storms.
8th graders identify and interpret a scientific incvestigation and a hypothesis through experimentation and testing a hypothesis. They identify what scientists hypothesized about the communication of stingless bees. Finally, 8th graders discover and examine symbolic communication and its evolutionary advantage to stingless bees.
In this lesson students explore the effects of ultraviolet light on Lumbriculus. They expose ultraviolet light to Lumbriculus (worm) and determine the lethal exposure time. They examine the worm and record their observations.
This lesson has students explore the different types of intraspecies and interspecies interactions that can occur during a field trip to the zoo. In small groups, they create ethograms for ten minute observations of at least two different species in a multi-species zoo exhibit.
