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Talking Turkey: Using a short story to facilitate learning and appreciation of energy flows through ecosystems
Human beings are storytellers. This exercise uses the universality of storytelling to engage undergraduate students in ecological science. Students read a fictional narrative that connects scientific principles of ecology to their daily life and in doing so helps students become more personally engaged in the scientific material and more interested in analyzing and evaluating the role of...
Publisher: EcoEd Digital Library
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Geographic Gradients in Community Patterns of Forest Trees
This exercise, intended as homework or an in-class exercise, provides a guided inquiry approach to understanding continental scale patterns of species richness and patterns of relative abundance within community species assemblages. Students are introduced to the concept of latitudinal gradients in species richness. They are also introduced to the concept of evenness of relative abundances within...
Publisher: EcoEd Digital Library
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The Sustainable Use of Fisheries
The Evolution of Sustainable Use is a flash-based game that allows multiple players to simultaneously exploit a model fishery. The game presents a fishery as a metaphor for any communally-exploited resource. This imaginary fishery is scaled down so that the actions of 2-8 players influence the sustainability of the system. In the game “boats” represent the unit of fishing effort, and ea...
Publisher: EcoEd Digital Library
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Pulp Fiction? The Science of Papermaking
Using claymation, this video illustrates the process by which plant cells make cellulose microfibrils. Important for the structure and support of the plant, human culture has been forever changed by the development of paper made from these strands of cellulose.
Publisher: EconBotEd Digital Library
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Order Up! Ecological Succession at Table Rock State Park in Pickens, South Carolina
Students are given photos of different phases of ecological succession that are from Table Rock State Park in Pickens, South Carolina. Using their knowledge of ecological succession, students arrange the photos in chronological order of the phases of succession.
Publisher: EcoEd Digital Library
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