| Keeping a Notebook |
The students drew leaves with written descriptions.
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The exercise gave the students practice in observation and description.
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Another fine leaf drawing.
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| A Visit to the Berkeley Natural History Museums |
Docents pointed out some of the more interesting plants at the Botanical Garden. |
Some of the beautiful butterfly specimens in the Essig Museum of Entomology collections. |
Pressed plant specimens fill this cabinet in the University and Jepson Herbaria. |
A student answers a question about beetles at the Essig Museum. |
Grad fellow Jenny McGuire talks about a whale skull in the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology. |
Outside the Museum of Paleontology, Jenny tells the students about T. rex and Pteranodon. |
A nicely labeled butterfly drawing by an AMS student.
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A couple more student drawings done at the Essig Museum …
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| What's an Insect? Lookin' at Walking Stick Insects |
Three student drawings of walking stick insects.
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| Observing Diversity and Similarities in Insect Orders |
A student drawing of a moth with comments on differences and similarities between specimens in a drawer of butterflies and moths.
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A student compares specimens in a drawer of dragonflies and damselflies.
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Gordon explains the exercise to the students. |
Students ponder a case containing a variety of flies.
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| The Moorea Connection |
Students write descriptions of preserved specimens from the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology. |
The descriptions, of a bobcat in this case, will be sent to students in Moorea, French Polynesia. |
A student's drawing and description of a scrub jay. |
One student's description of a fox squirrel. |
Another description of a California quail. |
A visiting Moorean teacher talks about the differences between American and Moorean children. |
A student's description of Douglas fir, poison oak, and more.
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A description of Douglas fir accompanied by a drawing.
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| The Great Fossil Find |
Gordon and Jessica, in paleontologist attire, explain the Great Fossil Find.
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Part of the exercise involved piecing together the "bones" of a fossil reptile.
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Another fossil reptile under construction.
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| The Clipbird Lesson |
Jessica explains how the Clipbirds exercise works.
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Students begin "feeding" on "foods" of different sizes.
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Greg tabulates the resulting data on the board.
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| Consequences of Variation |
This walking stick insect assisted in the student-designed experiment. |
Greg prepares to drop the walking stick to see how far it will glide. |
Greg and Jenny measure the glide distance. |
A student enters the data on the board.
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Jenny takes another measurement.
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| Germinating Seeds |
The students prepare to plant the treated seeds of California native plants in the schoolyard.
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A student treats a seed with a chemical in an experiment to see how germination is affected.
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Another group of students prepares its own seed treatment experiment. |
| The Effect of Extinction on the Ecological Web |
A student looks through some of the interactions cards.
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The game begins with each student (organism) possessing a certain number of "resource chips" (beans in this case).
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A student reads one of the interactions cards to see which "organism" gains and which one loses resources. |
| River of Shame |
Students begin drawing businesses, parks, schools, etc. along the river that drains to the Bay. |
A student busy "building" on riverfront property. |
These girls have added a business that manufactures and sells ice cream. |
More structures go up along the river. |
A farm with a big red barn is established near where the river empties into the Bay. |
The students finish "construction" along the river. |
Using color-coded stickers for different pollutants, the students see how their properties contribute to the overall pollution of the Bay.
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