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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

From Foraging to Farming

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students experience the difficulty that goes along with foraging for food. In this activity on the importance of modern agriculture, students simulate how there simply is not enough food and water for everyone when agricultural means are...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Feeding Facilitation: A lesson in Evolution and Sociobiology

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils simulate foraging by searching for and gathering toothpicks. Feeding Facilitation is an attempt to show the relationship between energy costs of foraging and predator avoidance with flocking behavior and their relationship to...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Optimal Foraging

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students participate in a foraging activity that demonstrates environmental conditions playing an important role in determining the optimal foraging behavior of a particular organism.
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Marine Animal Tracking

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This lesson engages young scholars in an activity to monitor animal foraging behavior on a spatial scale. The students will break into groups and track each other's movements as they move through a pre-determined course. The results will...
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Bee Navigation

For Students 9th - 10th
This video segment from NOVA: "The Mystery of Animal Pathfinders" explores honeybee communication and navigation. [4:45]
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Handout
The BIG zoo

The Big Zoo: Nine Banded Armadillo

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a general overview of the nine-banded armadillo, including a focus on its diet, habitat, predators, social structure, and more.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Quiz: The Rise of Agriculture

For Students 9th - 10th
A quiz over the topics covered in a unit about human evolution to get food from growing their own versus foraging for food.