Bring real research to the classroom through:
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Videos linked to lesson plans that showcase researchers' steps through the scientific method.
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Give your students the chance to analyze real data.
Featured Projects & Lesson Plans:
Pikas
Grade 4-8: Food webs, species interactions
Grade 6-12: Population ecology, scientific method, real data
analysis body size and adaptation
Museum Collections
College: Plant ranges and distribution,GIS, ARCTOS data analysis, natural selection, geographic variation, island biogeography, phylogenetics, and more!
Bees
Grade 3-8: Pollination, plant anatomy
Grade 6-12: Phenology, scientific method, real data analysis, natural selection, adaptation, environmental change, biodiversity
Alpine Hydrology
Grade K-8: Glaciers, geologic change
Grade 6-12: Nitrogen cycle, role of nitrogen in living things
Chickadee Hybridization
Grade 6-12: Hybridization, species barrier breakdown, E-bird species distributions
Camera Trapping
Grade 6-8: Understanding data, species richness, life history traits, niches,
human impacts, real data analysis, species interactions, adaptation
Grade 6-12: Inquiry based, scientific method.
Burying Beetles
College: How species interact with their habitat, population dynamics, and energy transfer