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Ecology Lesson Plans

1. A Habitat Made by ME!- This activity is designed to make each student more aware of the components involved in an aquatic environment .
2. Acid Rain And How It Affects Our Environment- Demonstrate phenomenologically the effects of acid rain on our environment and perform long-term "real-time" experiments.
3. Animal Welfare Hearing- Three or four students are the joint chairpersons of the hearing, and they basically run class for the next week. I have the kids dress up for extra credit. This adds a great touch and really gets them into the role playing aspect of the activity.

1. Biodiversity Activities- The first activity illustrates how to use math to calculate a simplified version of the diversity index of a selected habitat.
2. Bottle Habitat- Students will exercise important early scientific skills, like observing, measuring, classifying, communicating data, inferring, and predicting.
3. Building A Biome- The main objective in this Mini-teach is to show students how different plants grow in each biome.
4. Cemetery Demographics- Using a local cemetery as a data source, students collect four pools of data from different periods of a town's history to construct life tables: mortality and survivorship curves.
5. Cricket Patch Density- A semester-length field study investigating the size of a grassland patch as related to cricket population density. By utilizing the mark-recapture method, students apply the Lincoln-Peterson equation to population estimates.
6. Desert Adaptations: Water- When studying adaptations of plants and animals for life in a desert environment, many concepts remain very abstract without first-hand experience.
7. Design an Ecosystem- Students create a simple, imaginary ecosystem.
8. Earth Day Birthday Party- This is an encapsulated method to teach population dynamics, conservation, and the effects of overpopulation on our planet's resources.
9. Ethnobotanicals- This is a newly designed thematic unit which will explore the medicinal values of local plants. It is designed as a generic unit that will allow for regional differences.
10. Filtering Water To Prevent Pollution- Students will see the techniques that are used to filter our water. Students will gain an idea as to various pollutants which can contaminate our water and an appreciation of the need to keep our water supplies clean.
11. Food Chain/Food Web- Students will demonstrate a basic understanding of a food chain and food web and are able to appreciate each as a representation of the life cycle.
12. Food Web- To collect data to construct the food web of a community in a particular biome. To use the computer to analyze that data.
13. Forest in a Jar- In this activity, students will be able to see in miniature how a swampy area can be succeeded by a forested habitat.
14. Hunting Dilemma- Hunting is one of those controversial issues which has strong opinions on both sides. Sometimes those opinions are based on feeling instead of fact.
15. How Organisms Respond To Changes In Their Environment- To observe the reaction of living cells to mechanical and chemical stimuli.
16. Life in a Drop of Water- To classify the types of organisms observed as single-celled or multi-cellular. Use a key or chart to identify and name the organisms found.
17. Oh Deer!- With our planet in the serious condition it exists today, children need to see the plan of nature so that they can understand the need to preserve and protect our resources.
18. Rat Islands- This group activiy asks students to use their imagination to design a rat which is adapted to survive on an island.
19. Saving Humpty Dumpty- . Students will discuss ways to reduce, reuse, or recycle resources in the life-cycle for a shoe product. Students will investigate why consumers purchase certain shoe products.
20. School Yard Park/Ecosystem- To be able to classify plants according to their different families.
21. Strands Walk: An Ecological Observation- Groups of living things interacting with each other and the environment compose an ecosystem. An ecosystem is one area in which all biotic(living) and abiotic(nonliving) things interact.
22. Terrarium For Life- This activity is designed to make each student more aware of the terrarium environment. In creating a terrarium students will benefit from hands-on and learning experiences over a four week period.
23. The Demise of a Halloween Pumpkin- The two pumpkins will be placed side by side on a plastic tray in our classroom. We will observe these pumpkins for approximately three months. You will keep a log on the pumpkins.
24. The Effects of Pesticides on the Food Chain- Students will discuss possible consequences of pesticides entering the food chain.
25. The Great Kapok Tree: A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest- This lesson plan deals with the story of the great Kapok tree, a tale from the Amazon forest. It also generates different ideas of using the computer.
26. The Woods and Pond- The activities are designed to give children a hands-on approach to learning about their natural surroundings.
27. Water Purification- Participants will develop an understanding and appreciation of water purification techniques and their implications for health maintenance.
28. Water Quality Integrated Unit- Students in the biology classroom participate in authentic "hands-on" activities to test and measure the water quality of local sources and then compare and contrast results of the community's water to water quality of aquaculture fish-raising tanks maintained by the vocational agricultural classes.
29. We All Live Downstream- To understand how land use influences water quality, students are asked to represent how a section of riverfront property would be used if given one million dollars.
30. Wetlands/Migration- To increase awareness for the need to protect our nation's wetlands.
31. What's It Like? Where You Live?- This is a lesson plan that covers a unit on Biomes / Plant and Animal Adaptations / Human Activity.
32. Wildlife Management- Students are introduced to the concept: wildlife management, and to practices used to protect endangered species from extinction.