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Cara Bosler

North American Mammals - 1 views

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    Neat interactive site showing where different species are located on North America. You can search by species, search their family tree and search conservation status.
Cara Bosler

Newsela | Thousands of sea stars succumb to disease on the West Coast - 4 views

shared by Cara Bosler on 30 Jan 15 - No Cached
  • How do we stop it? “Is it the type of thing that will heal itself over time? That’s the real question,” Raimondi said.
    • Cara Bosler
       
      What possible actions could scientists take to attack a problem like this?
    • Sean Nash
       
      Absolutely. The best thing about this article (and those like it from this resource) are that they support an attention to inquiry by always leaving the reader with more high level questions at the end...
  • The science so far seems to show that starfish species are affected differently depending on their physical location. For species in tide pool areas, the sores show up first and are followed by tissue decay, Raimondi said. Death might follow in a matter of weeks, or even not at all. But in underwater sea star species the sickness is much quicker and more deadly. When starfishes under the surface get the disease, tissue decay happens in hours or a day rather than weeks.
  • He also said that the term “wasting” describes the symptoms. These symptoms are actually seen all the time, he said, and are put down to stress, such as a starfish drying out or getting sick.
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  • Strange disease kills thousands of starfish on the West Coast
    • Cara Bosler
       
      As you read this article, keep in mind what effects a change in population of sea star would have an it's environment.
Cara Bosler

Invasive species can threaten endangered ones/ Ecology Global Network - 2 views

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    Article alined with 4.1.D.c, 4.1.B.a and 4.1.B.c.
Cara Bosler

Kids' Planet ESPECIES Animal Fact Sheets - 1 views

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    Electronic Fact Sheets on Over 50 species. 
Miranda Kurbin

Online Mineral Museum powered by John Betts-Fine Minerals and Allminerals.com - 0 views

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    Online Mineral Museum--can be sorted by species, locality or group
Cara Bosler

Earth Statistics | Ecology Global Network - 1 views

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    Very intriguing site listing live statistics including world population, species extinct, forest lost, forest replanted and an oil depletion timer. Click on Population Counters (globe on the right) to see the populations on each continent as the globe slowly spins around. Very cool!
charbradley

Natural Selection of Bean Hunters - 4 views

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    Students are given different "adaptations" (spoon, knife, tape, fork, etc) and have 3 minutes to "hunt" for different bean species. Might need to be modified a bit...
charbradley

Learning From Fossils - 3 views

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    This activity used species (extinct and present-day) in Australia and guides students through comparing them and making inferences.
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