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Online Course
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Courses: Civil Environmental: Ecology I: The Earth System

For Teachers 9th - 10th
College-level online course highlighting the fundamentals of ecology. Course topics include coevolution of the biosphere, geosphere, atmosphere, and hydrosphere; photosynthesis and respiration; and the carbon, nitrogen, and water cycles....
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Biomes and Population Dynamics

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson begins with a PowerPoint slideshow that covers important ecological concepts about biomes, limiting factors, carrying capacity, and population growth. Students will look at the population dynamics involved with the diversity...
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Handout
The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry

Abpi: Population Growth

For Students 3rd - 8th
Students control the environments in four different scenarios to discover how any changes might affect populations. The different simulations include microorganisms, rabbits, foxes, and other organisms.
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Unit Plan
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Ap Biology: Ecology

For Students 9th - 10th
Students review the study of living things and make connections back to Earth's systems. This unit focuses on how various species, grouped in populations and communities, work with the nonliving things around them to ensure survival.
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Handout
Nature Research

Scitable: Population and Quantitative Genetics

For Students 9th - 10th
Do you know the difference between population genetics and quantitative genetics? This webpage examines both population genetics which concentrates on frequencies of alleles and genotypes and quantitative genetics which deals with the...
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Interactive
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: The Habitable Planet: Ecology Lab

For Students 3rd - 8th
Create the parameters of your own ecosystem by choosing which producers and consumers live there. Visualize how the food web operates and species populations change. This simulator mimics the food web within a typical ecosystem and gives...
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Handout
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: What Is Ecology?

For Students 9th - 10th
A webpage giving an overview of ecology. Learn about the biotic and abiotic factors that make up an ecosystem as well as the different levels of ecology.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: Levels of Ecological Organization

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Ecosystems are organized into several different levels, and they can be studied at any one of the various levels of organization. Learn more about levels of...
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Article
Untamed Science

Untamed Science: Ecology: The Study of Interactions

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about how ecology is simply the study of how and why organisms interact with their environments.
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Life Tables, Survivorship, & Age Sex Structure

For Students 9th - 10th
This article describes tools ecologists use to describe the present state of a population and predict its future growth.
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Handout
Bio Topics

Bio Topics: Measuring Population Sizes

For Students 5th - 8th
Read and understand the concept of ecological population counts and sizes. Hover the mouse over questions to reveal the answers as you sharpen your skills.
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe Biology: Population Dynamics: Self Check Quiz

For Students 9th - 10th
Take this five-question, self-checking quiz on population dynamics in ecology.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Ecology Vocabulary

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This StudyCards stack enables students to review the vocabulary used in studying ecology.
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Handout
Other

Conservation Ecology: Assessing Extinction Risk

For Students 9th - 10th
This site discusses how genetic variability is correlated with the risk of organism extinction. It also discusses how bottlenecks can reduce genetic variability in populations leading to extinctions.
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Handout
Other

Clemson Cooperative Extension: The Basics of Population Dynamics [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Students learn the many ecological factors that affect the carrying capacity for populations of wild species.
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating the Ecology of Goldenrod Galls Through Biological Sampling

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this biology field lab exercise, students conduct a stationary population study of goldenrod galls. They examine a host of factors including goldenrod plant density, goldenrod gall density, gall height, gall mass, larval exit hole...
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Handout
NC State University

Nc State University: Population Dynamics

For Students 9th - 10th
Students will understand the ecological concepts behind population dynamics of wildlife species.
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Handout
Science Struck

Science Struck: The 6 Chief Levels of Organization in Ecology

For Students 5th - 8th
Describes six levels of organization in the biological world - individual species, population, community, ecosystem, biome, and biosphere.
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Article
Other

The Sustainable Scale Project: Ecological Footprint

For Students 9th - 10th
The Ecological Footprint is rooted in the fact that all renewable resources come from the earth. It accounts for the flows of energy and matter to and from any defined economy and converts these into the corresponding land/water area...
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Population Growth, Ecological Footprints, and Overshoot

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this three-part activity, students apply linear, exponential, and rational functions to explore past and projected U.S. population growth, carbon footprint trend, ecological overshoot, and effectiveness of hypothetical carbon dioxide...
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eBook
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: 12.2 Ecological Organization

For Students 5th - 9th
See how ecosystems are organized into several different levels, and an ecosystem can be studied at any one of the various levels of organization.
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Activity
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Alien Invasion: Estimating a Snake Population [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learn about the effects of alien species on native environments and explore biologists' use of capture/recapture statistics and analysis of sampling techniques by estimating the population size of a tagged species.
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Lesson Plan
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Jason: Island Fox: A Population in Trouble

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Examine the relationship between the island fox and golden eagle populations on Santa Cruz Island over a twelve-year period using the TI-73 Explorer to graph and analyze the values.
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Article
University of North Carolina

The Ecology of the Cape Fear River System

For Students 9th - 10th
The Cape Fear Estuary drains the largest watershed in North Carolina, containing 27% of the State's population. The Cape Fear River itself (about 320 km or 200 miles in length) is formed in the Piedmont by the confluence of the Haw and...

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