- The hawksbill sea turtle faces the greatest challenges to its survival according to the research. It is critically endangered, has few nesting beaches left, and faces threats from habitat loss. Living up to 80 years, protecting coral reefs and limiting coastal development
This is very much a work in progress! I also want to add images of the microscopic organisms (from Micro*scope) and characteristics of their respective habitats as well as video clips from 'extremophile hunters.'
This is very much a work in progress! I also want to add images of the microscopic organisms (from Micro*scope) and characteristics of their respective habitats as well as video clips from 'extremophile hunters.'
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Topic 1: Endangered Species
Although humans; like all other living creatures, have had to make changes, adjustments, and adapt to survive and thrive, it is humankind that has also had a profound impact on the lives of other creatures on Earth. Sometimes this has been a beneficial impact, but in many cases, it has been a disaster for other creatures.
Review the
Discussion resources
.
Endangered Species
Using the Internet, your textbook or the Library, conduct some research on your own on an endangered species (plant or animal) of your choice. Consider the biological, ethical, and economic aspects that have led not only to its endangerment, but also the role humans have taken in protecting the species. Then, during the week, be sure to address the following:
· In a short paragraph (5–7 sentences) describe the species that you chose to learn more about and the basic reasons for its endangerment.
· What characteristics make some species more vulnerable to extinction, while others seem to thrive despite changes in their surroundings?
· How do the extinctions of other creatures affect humans directly and indirectly?
· Why are decisions about recovery and preservation of these creatures so complicated?
· What, if any, ethical responsibilities do humans have to other creatures on the planet?
· What sorts of trade-offs would you be willing to make in order to help protect an endangered species? Would you make the same trade-offs for all types of species (plants, insects, amphibians, etc.) in addition to those more popular species many people tend to be fonder of, like whales, tigers, and pandas?
· Later in the week, compare your chosen organism to some described by your classmates. Do they share any common features? For example, are they endangered for the same reasons? Do they share similar habitats or behaviors?
.
Saving our not so Furry Friends - Long live the freshwater crocodile by Anton...Art4Agriculture
This is the story of how Antonia found herself in the middle of nowhere wrestling crocs on a study with PhD student Ruchira Somaweera.
An experience that left her with more than an award winning thong tan on arrival back home to a little town called Sydney
Understandings:
The distribution of species is affected by limiting factors
Community structure can be strongly affected by keystone species
Each species plays a unique role within a community because of the unique combination of its spatial habitat and interactions with other species
Interactions between species in a community can be classified according to their effect
Two species cannot survive indefinitely in the same habitat if their niches are identical
Communications Skills for Environmental ProfessionalsSAVE THE FROGS!
From the desk of the world's leading amphibian conservation organization, SAVE THE FROGS!, are proven and instant ways to improve your communication in marketing, sales, fundraising, and journalism to increase your environmental project's impact and funding. Designed for the scientist writing for the public and popular media.
This PowerPoint was one very small part of my Ecology Interactions Unit from the website http://sciencepowerpoint.com/index.html .This unit includes a 3 part 2000+ Slide PowerPoint loaded with activities, project ideas, critical class notes (red slides), review opportunities, challenge questions with answers, 3 PowerPoint review games (125 slides each) and much more. A bundled homework package and detailed unit notes chronologically follow the PowerPoint slideshow.
Areas of Focus within The Ecology Interactions Unit: Levels of Biological Organization (Ecology), Parts of the Biosphere, Habitat, Ecological Niche, Types of Competition, Competitive Exclusion Theory, Animal Interactions, Food Webs, Predator Prey Relationships, Camouflage, Population Sampling, Abundance, Relative Abundance, Diversity, Mimicry, Batesian Mimicry, Mullerian Mimicry, Symbiosis, Parasitism, Mutualism, Commensalism, Plant and Animal Interactions, Coevolution, Animal Strategies to Eat Plants, Plant Defense Mechanisms, Exotic Species, Impacts of Invasive Exotic Species.
If you have any questions please feel free to contact me. Thank you again and best wishes.
Sincerely,
Ryan Murphy M.Ed
www.sciencepowerpoint@gmail.com
Our planet’s diverse, thriving ecosystems may seem like permanent fixtures, but they’re actually vulnerable to collapse. Jungles can become deserts, and reefs can become lifeless rocks. What makes one ecosystem strong and another weak in the face of change? Kim Preshoff details why the answer, to a large extent, is biodiversity.
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Topic 1: Endangered Species
Although humans; like all other living creatures, have had to make changes, adjustments, and adapt to survive and thrive, it is humankind that has also had a profound impact on the lives of other creatures on Earth. Sometimes this has been a beneficial impact, but in many cases, it has been a disaster for other creatures.
Review the
Discussion resources
.
Endangered Species
Using the Internet, your textbook or the Library, conduct some research on your own on an endangered species (plant or animal) of your choice. Consider the biological, ethical, and economic aspects that have led not only to its endangerment, but also the role humans have taken in protecting the species. Then, during the week, be sure to address the following:
· In a short paragraph (5–7 sentences) describe the species that you chose to learn more about and the basic reasons for its endangerment.
· What characteristics make some species more vulnerable to extinction, while others seem to thrive despite changes in their surroundings?
· How do the extinctions of other creatures affect humans directly and indirectly?
· Why are decisions about recovery and preservation of these creatures so complicated?
· What, if any, ethical responsibilities do humans have to other creatures on the planet?
· What sorts of trade-offs would you be willing to make in order to help protect an endangered species? Would you make the same trade-offs for all types of species (plants, insects, amphibians, etc.) in addition to those more popular species many people tend to be fonder of, like whales, tigers, and pandas?
· Later in the week, compare your chosen organism to some described by your classmates. Do they share any common features? For example, are they endangered for the same reasons? Do they share similar habitats or behaviors?
.
Saving our not so Furry Friends - Long live the freshwater crocodile by Anton...Art4Agriculture
This is the story of how Antonia found herself in the middle of nowhere wrestling crocs on a study with PhD student Ruchira Somaweera.
An experience that left her with more than an award winning thong tan on arrival back home to a little town called Sydney
Understandings:
The distribution of species is affected by limiting factors
Community structure can be strongly affected by keystone species
Each species plays a unique role within a community because of the unique combination of its spatial habitat and interactions with other species
Interactions between species in a community can be classified according to their effect
Two species cannot survive indefinitely in the same habitat if their niches are identical
Communications Skills for Environmental ProfessionalsSAVE THE FROGS!
From the desk of the world's leading amphibian conservation organization, SAVE THE FROGS!, are proven and instant ways to improve your communication in marketing, sales, fundraising, and journalism to increase your environmental project's impact and funding. Designed for the scientist writing for the public and popular media.
This PowerPoint was one very small part of my Ecology Interactions Unit from the website http://sciencepowerpoint.com/index.html .This unit includes a 3 part 2000+ Slide PowerPoint loaded with activities, project ideas, critical class notes (red slides), review opportunities, challenge questions with answers, 3 PowerPoint review games (125 slides each) and much more. A bundled homework package and detailed unit notes chronologically follow the PowerPoint slideshow.
Areas of Focus within The Ecology Interactions Unit: Levels of Biological Organization (Ecology), Parts of the Biosphere, Habitat, Ecological Niche, Types of Competition, Competitive Exclusion Theory, Animal Interactions, Food Webs, Predator Prey Relationships, Camouflage, Population Sampling, Abundance, Relative Abundance, Diversity, Mimicry, Batesian Mimicry, Mullerian Mimicry, Symbiosis, Parasitism, Mutualism, Commensalism, Plant and Animal Interactions, Coevolution, Animal Strategies to Eat Plants, Plant Defense Mechanisms, Exotic Species, Impacts of Invasive Exotic Species.
If you have any questions please feel free to contact me. Thank you again and best wishes.
Sincerely,
Ryan Murphy M.Ed
www.sciencepowerpoint@gmail.com
Our planet’s diverse, thriving ecosystems may seem like permanent fixtures, but they’re actually vulnerable to collapse. Jungles can become deserts, and reefs can become lifeless rocks. What makes one ecosystem strong and another weak in the face of change? Kim Preshoff details why the answer, to a large extent, is biodiversity.
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Biological screening of herbal drugs: Introduction and Need for
Phyto-Pharmacological Screening, New Strategies for evaluating
Natural Products, In vitro evaluation techniques for Antioxidants, Antimicrobial and Anticancer drugs. In vivo evaluation techniques
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1. Sustainability Superheroes Help At-risk Turtles
Problem
• Which sea turtle is in the greatest need of protection?
Alternatives
• Green Sea Turtle, Leatherback Sea Turtle, Loggerhead Sea
Turtle, Hawksbill Sea Turtle
Criteria
• To what extent are they endangered, who are their
predators, how long do they live, why are they in
trouble?
Decision
• Which sea turtle presents the greatest need? How did
you make that decision?
2. Image Analysis
What do I see? What do I
think?
What do I
wonder?
What do you
see in the
picture?
Which things
in the picture
are living
things?
Which are
nonliving
things?
What other
living or
nonliving
things might
be behind the
plants? Under
the water?
3. • What is an ecosystem?
• What is an environment?
• What are examples of living
and nonliving things in an
ecosystem?
• What are different types of
ecosystems?
• What are producers?
• What are consumers?
• How does energy move
through an ecosystem?
Watch the video: What is an ecosystem:.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPHqUxxyLsY
4. Read the informational text.
• https://www.earthday.org/campaigns/endangered-
species/earthday2019/
5. Read the Informational
Text
• https://faunalytics.org/law
s-are-not-enough-to-
protect-endangered-sea-
turtles/
• Why are turtles at risk
even though there are
laws to protect them?
6. Learn More About Threats to Sea Turtles
• https://www.seeturtles
.org/sea-turtles-threats
• Discuss how each of
these threats are man-
made.
• Scroll down to find out
the extent to which
seven sea turtles are
at-risk (The
explanation of the
scale is below the list
of turtles. In a later
link a chart that is kid-
friendly will supply this
information for each
sea turtle).
7. Watch the video
• https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=w82xpBR_Z4A
• What could happen to keep
these babies from making it
to the water? What
dangers are in the
environment (predators,
people, trash on the beach,
light that confuses the
turtles, etc.)?
8. • What is the problem?
• What is NOAA asking
you to do?
Introduce the
problem point
10. Research Each Turtle
• https://www.worldwildlife.org/pages/inf
ographic-sea-turtl
• View the chart with students. Discuss
the categories of being at-risk from least
to most (vulnerable, endangered,
critically endangered). Refer back to the
website that explained what the category
‘data deficient’ means.
• Model reading the chart on Green Sea
Turtles. To what extent are these turtles
at-risk (endangered)? Model entering
this information into the matrix.
• Continue reading the chart and
discussing each of the other three types
of turtles.
11. Research Using the NOAA site
• Use the following link to go to the NOAA website:
https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/sea-turtles
• Click on the links for each of the four sea turtles.
Each article provides information related
predators, life span, and why are they at-risk.
Gather relevant information and write it on the
matrix. (These articles can be downloaded as PDFs
to allow students to annotate the texts)
12. Rank the alternatives.
Guiding/reflective Questions
• Which turtle would be the best choice for support?
• Why do you think that?
• What of the criteria is the most important to you?
• Which animal would be your next choice? And after that?
• Do you agree with your group's ideas? Why or why not?
14. Extend the learning.
• Create a presentation for NOAA that outlines why a particular sea
turtle should be further supported.
• Read more about endangered species at ReadWorks:
• Endangered Species (text set)
https://www.readworks.org/article/Endangered-
Species/3077e686-4015-43f3-80c2-
ed39ae8b0dce#!articleTab:content/contentSection:d8ae9323-
b2ff-4b73-bbbb-10b9a3af572d/
• They’re Back! https://www.readworks.org/article/Theyre-
Back!/4570c345-4dd0-4b2d-b687-
bf9fb6ee1aed#!articleTab:content/
Editor's Notes
After analysis, explain to students that this image is of a lake’s ecosystem. Ecosystems are areas where living and nonliving things live together in balance.