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Lesson Plan: Sounds Of Your Study Site, Center For Urban Resilience
Lesson Plan: Sounds Of Your Study Site, Center For Urban Resilience
Module 07: Animal Adaptation & Behavior
In this lesson, students will conduct a survey of noise in the study site. They will begin to explore the idea that noise has an impact on the ecosystem and its inhabitants. In small groups, they will use a decibel meter, data sheet and aerial photograph of the study site to collect data on a section of the site. Students will then share this information with classmates to create a map of the noise of your schoolyard. Then students will listen to prerecorded bird songs against urban noise. They will compare the bird songs and the characteristics that make them …
Student Pages - Sounds Around Your Study Site: Conducting A Noise Survey, Center For Urban Resilience
Student Pages - Sounds Around Your Study Site: Conducting A Noise Survey, Center For Urban Resilience
Module 07: Animal Adaptation & Behavior
The goal of this lesson is to conduct a survey of noise at your study site. In small groups, you will use a decibel meter, data sheet and an aerial photograph of your site to collect data on a particular section. You will then share this information with your classmates to create a map of the noise of your schoolyard.
Student Pages - Answer Key - Sounds Around Your Study Site: Conducting A Noise Survey, Center For Urban Resilience
Student Pages - Answer Key - Sounds Around Your Study Site: Conducting A Noise Survey, Center For Urban Resilience
Module 07: Animal Adaptation & Behavior
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Lesson Plan: Behavioral Plasticity, Center For Urban Resilience
Lesson Plan: Behavioral Plasticity, Center For Urban Resilience
Module 07: Animal Adaptation & Behavior
In the previous lessons, students learned about the importance of noise in the urban environment. In response to urban noise as well as other characteristics of urban ecosystems, organisms modify their existing behaviors to maximize their fitness and likelihood of survival. This lesson focuses on behavioral plasticity, which is the idea that organisms’ behaviors are flexible and can be modified in response to their environment. Students complete an activity in which they investigate the plasticity of their own behaviors. The class then discusses how this analogy is similar and different compared to urban species as well as how the plasticity …
Structure Cards, Center For Urban Resilience
Structure Cards, Center For Urban Resilience
Module 07: Animal Adaptation & Behavior
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Student Pages - How Do Behaviors Impact Survival?, Center For Urban Resilience
Student Pages - How Do Behaviors Impact Survival?, Center For Urban Resilience
Module 07: Animal Adaptation & Behavior
Species constantly engage in a variety of behaviors or activities that help increase their chance of survival. For example, a bird may build a nest or a coyote might communicate to other coyotes through howling. In this activity, you are going to explore the plasticity of behaviors – the ability of an organism to change or modify its behaviors based on the external conditions. Specifically, you will examine your own behaviors, but then consider how your behaviors would be similar or different from other species. You will then consider how the plasticity of an organism’s behaviors impacts its chance of …
Student Pages - Answer Key - How Do Behaviors Impact Survival?, Center For Urban Resilience
Student Pages - Answer Key - How Do Behaviors Impact Survival?, Center For Urban Resilience
Module 07: Animal Adaptation & Behavior
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Lesson Plan: Developing A Persuasive Scientific Argument, Center For Urban Resilience
Lesson Plan: Developing A Persuasive Scientific Argument, Center For Urban Resilience
Module 07: Animal Adaptation & Behavior
In this lesson, students examine their data and construct an argument that answers their original research question. Students apply what they have been learning about behavioral adaptations to make sense of their bioacoustics data. After analyzing their data in groups and writing up their arguments, they present their research studies to the class, including their research question, methodology, and conclusions from their data. As part of these presentations, the class will discuss the validity of the different groups’ claims and whether they are supported by the data collected from the field as well as the various science concepts they have …
Presentation Template, Center For Urban Resilience
Presentation Template, Center For Urban Resilience
Module 07: Animal Adaptation & Behavior
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Student Pages - Developing A Persuasive Scientific Argument, Center For Urban Resilience
Student Pages - Developing A Persuasive Scientific Argument, Center For Urban Resilience
Module 07: Animal Adaptation & Behavior
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Lesson Plan: Comparing Our Results, Center For Urban Resilience
Lesson Plan: Comparing Our Results, Center For Urban Resilience
Module 07: Animal Adaptation & Behavior
The purpose of this lesson is for students to compare their findings to that of other similar studies. The goal of the lesson is two-fold. First, students should understand the big idea that organisms living in urban ecosystems have modified their behavior in response to the impacts of the humans that live there. Second, this lesson should reinforce the concept of sample size as well as help students understand that we still have many gaps in our understanding of animals in cities.
Student Pages - Comparing Our Results, Center For Urban Resilience
Student Pages - Comparing Our Results, Center For Urban Resilience
Module 07: Animal Adaptation & Behavior
No abstract provided.