Ecology

Ecology & Animal Behavior

Essential Question:  How do living things interact with each other and their environment to survive? How are humans impacting ecosystems around the world?

• Intro Animal Behavior (Ch. 51)  - honeybee waggle dance, amazing animal migrations, fox using magnetic forces, turtles and migration, whooping crane flight, monkey foolery,  chimps w/tool,  animal imprinting, Crow problem-solvers!; Crow Intelligence - TedTalk

• Animal behavior lab; Conduct a chi square test of your data 

  HW:  Chi Square Problems - (video to review chi square HERE; ANSWERS to chi square probs) 

AFTER May test - 

• Movie:  Before the Flood, starring Leonardo DiCaprio ; Debrief movie via round-table discussion

• Current event assignment:  Find a good, scholarly article online dealing with conservation ecology; (1) Write a brief review, highlighting 5 key ideas and  2 further questions you have; (2) Share out!

• Intro Aquatic Ecology (ppt=HERE) and Macroinvertebrate Lab; Bigelow Lab site (HABs)

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