In Part I, you examined patterns of total bird abundance at Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest. These data showed bird numbers at Hubbard Brook have declined since 1969. Is this true for every species of bird? You will now examine data for four species of birds to see if each of these species follows the same
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The birds of Hubbard Brook, Part II
The birds of Hubbard Brook, Part I
The activities are as follows: Teacher Guide Student activity, Graph Type A, Level 2 Student activity, Graph Type B, Level 2 Student activity, Graph Type C, Level 2 Grading Rubric PowerPoint of images Digital Data Nugget on DataClassroom The Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest is an area where scientists have collected ecological data for many years. It
LTER Data Nuggets: Breathing new life into long-term data
The original blog post can be found on the KBS LTER website here. Each year the KBS LTER program awards graduate students summer fellowships. Here Elizabeth Schultheis and Melissa Kjevik, now both postdoctoral researchers with Michigan State University, describe the project their summer fellowship supported. Today it is apparent that students and the public continue to struggle when faced with
Keeping up with the sea level
The activities are as follows: Teacher Guide Student activity, Graph Type A, Level 3 Student activity, Graph Type B, Level 3 Student activity, Graph Type C, Level 3 Grading Rubric Salt marshes are ecosystems that occur along much of the coast of New England in the United States. Salt marshes are very important – they serve
Does sea level rise harm Saltmarsh Sparrows?
The activities are as follows: Teacher Guide Student activity, Graph Type A, Level 3 Student activity, Graph Type B, Level 3 Student activity, Graph Type C, Level 3 Grading Rubric For the last 100 years, sea levels around the globe have increased dramatically. The cause of sea level rise has been investigated and debated. Data from
CSI: Crime Solving Insects
The activities are as follows: Teacher Guide Student activity, Graph Type A, Level 3 Student activity, Graph Type B, Level 3 Student activity, Graph Type C, Level 3 Grading Rubric Digital Data Nugget on DataClassroom Most people think that maggots are gross, but they are important decomposers in many ecosystems. Without maggots and other decomposers, we
Survey for teachers using Data Nuggets!
You are invited to participate in this online survey about whether you are using Data Nuggets in your classroom, and if so, what students have gained from using this educational resource. The survey will take approximately 10-20 minutes to complete. This survey is anonymous and voluntary; your personal information will not be attached to your
What do trees know about rain?
The activities are as follows: Teacher Guide Student activity, Level 3 Grading Rubric An adapted version of the original scientific paper Excel spreadsheet of the full dataset for computer graphing exercises Did you know that Australia is the driest inhabited continent in the world? Because it is so dry, we need to be able to predict how
The Flight of the Stalk-Eyed Fly
The activities are as follows: Teacher Guide Student Activity, Level 4 Extension – Relay Race Lab Activity Stalk-eyed flies are insects with eyes located on the ends of long projections on the sides of their head, called eyestalks. Male stalk-eyed flies have longer eyestalks than females, and this plays an important role in the flies’ mating patterns.
Data Nugget Workshop at NABT 2015: A Tail of Two Scorpions
You can get the slides from our NABT talk here: A Tail of Two Scorpions