Monday, December 12, 2011

Measuring Biodiversity

Objectives: Students will become familiar with the concept of biodiversity and different ways to measure it, and they will be able to relate these measurements to conservation issues; Students will discuss what biodiversity means to them and then explore questions related to conservation.
this activity goes with the measuring biodiversity student sheet

Measuring Biodiversity PowerPoint
https://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0AXnaqHDOF2oTZGM4OXRobThfOTJjYzNuN21mdg

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Introducing Biodiversity


Objectives: Students will learn the three levels of biodiversity and how they are connected; Students will describe what diversity is; students will describe how the three levels of diversity are related.


Directions: click on the link below that will take you to Eco Online Monitoring Biodiversity page. Once there use the information to help you answer the questions on the second link given


 What is Biodiversity Website: http://www.eco-online.eq.edu.au/novascotia/whatsbio/importance.html




Introducing Biodiversity Questions: https://docs.google.com/a/ucityschools.org/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dG4tejN5ME5SYjhoUXdJa1ZJRGdkNmc6MQ