Curated OER
From Foraging to Farming
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...
Curated OER
Feeding Facilitation: A lesson in Evolution and Sociobiology
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...
Curated OER
Optimal Foraging
Students participate in a foraging activity that demonstrates environmental conditions playing an important role in determining the optimal foraging behavior of a particular organism.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Marine Animal Tracking
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...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Bee Navigation
This video segment from NOVA: "The Mystery of Animal Pathfinders" explores honeybee communication and navigation. [4:45]
The BIG zoo
The Big Zoo: Nine Banded Armadillo
This site provides a general overview of the nine-banded armadillo, including a focus on its diet, habitat, predators, social structure, and more.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Quiz: The Rise of Agriculture
A quiz over the topics covered in a unit about human evolution to get food from growing their own versus foraging for food.