The activities are as follows: Streams are tough places to live. Fish living in streams have to survive droughts, floods, debris flows, falling trees, and cold and warm temperatures. In Oregon, cutthroat trout make streams their home. Cutthroat trout are sensitive to disturbances in the stream, such as pollution and sediment. This means that when trout
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Beetle, it’s cold outside!
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 PowerPoint of images and chill coma video Grading Rubric Digital Data Nugget on DataClassroom Éste Data Nugget también está disponible en Español: Actividad para estudiantes, Tipo de gráfica
Clique wars: social conflict in daffodil cichlids
The activities are as follows: Teacher Guide Student activity, Graph Type A, Level 4 Student activity, Graph Type B, Level 4 Student activity, Graph Type C, Level 4 Grading Rubric Digital Data Nugget on DataClassroom Have you ever thought about what it would be like to live completely alone, without contact with other people? Nowadays, humans are
Tree-killing beetles
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 A beetle the size of a grain of rice seems insignificant compared to a vast forest. However, during outbreaks the number of mountain pine beetles can
Bringing back the Trumpeter Swan
The activities are as follows: Teacher Guide Student Activities, Graph Types A-C, Level 3 Grading Rubric Digital Data Nugget on DataClassroom The Kellogg Bird Sanctuary was created in 1927 to provide safe nesting areas for waterfowl such as ducks, geese, and swans. During that time many waterfowl species were in trouble due to overhunting and the loss
What big teeth you have! Sexual selection in rhesus macaques
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 PowerPoint of images Scientist Profile on Project Biodiversify Scientist Profile Grading Rubric Digital Data Nugget on DataClassroom It is easy to identify a deer as male when you
Which would a woodlouse prefer?
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 PowerPoint of images Grading Rubric Digital Data Nugget on DataClassroom Woodlice are small crustaceans that live on land. They look like bugs, but are actually more closely related to
Is it better to be bigger?
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 PowerPoint of images and graphs Grading Rubric Digital Data Nugget on DataClassroom When Charles Darwin talked about the “struggle for existence” he was making the observation that many
Is it dangerous to be a showoff?
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 PowerPoint of images and graphs Grading Rubric Natural selection happens when differences in traits within a population give some individuals a better chance of surviving and reproducing than
City parks: wildlife islands in a sea of cement
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 PowerPoint of wildlife camera images Grading Rubric Digital Data Nugget on DataClassroom For most of our existence, humans have lived in rural, natural places. However, more and more