| POPULATIONS
AND ECOSYSTEMS COURSE MATRIX |
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FOSS
CD-ROM |
FOSS
READINGS |
EXTENSIONS |
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1. |
Milkweed
Bugs (3+ sessions) |
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Milkweed Bugs |
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Maintain a milkweed-bug colony. |
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2. |
Sorting
Out Life (2–3 sessions) |
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Video:
Among the Wild Chimpanzees |
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Life in a Community
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3. |
Miniecosystems
(3+ sessions) |
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FOSS
CD-ROM: Organism Database |
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Biosphere 2: An Experiment in Isolation
• Miniecosystem Organisms
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Localize your miniecosystems.
• Observe the effects of a decomposer. |
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4. |
Mono
Lake (3 sessions) |
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Video:
Of Ice and Fire: A Portrait of Mono Basin
FOSS CD-ROM: Ecoscenarios, Mono Lake, Food Web |
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5. |
Finding
the Energy (7 sessions) |
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Where Does Food Come From?
• Trophic Levels |
• Diagram humans in food webs.
• Describe human trophic levels.
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