Biodiversity Its all connected How can we grow

Biodiversity: It’s all connected!

How can we grow our fuel and save the butterflies, too? n How can we create a balance that gives us high productivity and high biodiversity? Why do we want high productivity? n Why do we want high biodiversity? n Why might it hard to get both high productivity and high biodiversity? (trade-offs) n n Bigger picture concepts: species interactions n biotic & abiotic interactions n changes over time n

In this session, teachers will: Learn to lead lessons that incorporate BEST plot protocols n Discuss motivations behind collecting productivity and biodiversity data n Practice BEST plot biomass and biodiversity protocols n Help to refine these protocols n Help to develop methods for student data collection and organization n Practice entering data for these protocols into web forms n Help to develop methods for having students ask questions, make predictions, and make conclusions for related to data collected for these protocols n

Session Activities: n n n 1. Take a short quiz to find out how much you know about biodiversity and to get you thinking about biodiversity. 2. Develop a class definition of biodiversity. 3. Go outside!!! Visit the BEST plots and practice the Plant and Animal Biodiversity Protocols. n Practice the Randomization Procedure

Session Activities (cont. ) n n n 4. Organize findings/data 5. Share results- groups report on their findings and discuss processes they used 6. Discussion n We need your feedback! Please take notes as we go through the protocol. Write down suggestions for changes. Think about how this lesson would fit into your curriculum and what changes would have to be made for this to work.

What’s the “Big Idea? ” n n n During these lessons students will be given the opportunity to develop an understanding of the term biodiversity and why it is important. Students will observe how plants impact insect biodiversity and how plant biodiversity impacts how much plants grow. We’ll be able to use our BEST plots to do all of this!!!

Biodiversity IQ Quiz: You will be taking a biodiversity quiz to learn about some of the tantalizing stranger-than-fiction tidbits that biodiversity has to offer. Let’s become more familiar with some biodiversity basics…

1. Which of the following animals could the fastest human outrun in a 100 -yard race? n n n a. cheetah b. warthog c. American woodcock d. domestic cat e. wild turkey

2. Which of the following animals can consume at least half of its body weight in food each day? n n a. little brown bat b. masked shrew c. ruby-throated hummingbird d. none of the above

3. Which of the following best describes the word Biodiversity? n n a. endangered species b. different kinds of planets in the solar system c. the variety of all life on earth d. biographies about famous biologists

4. Which of the following can be considered an enemy of the Great Lakes? n n a. zebra mussel b. spiny water flea c. mercury d. sea lamprey

5. What’s the most serious threat to biodiversity? n n a. scientists collecting specimens b. habitat loss c. tourists d. pollution

6. Without fungi, which of the following would you not be able to do? n n a. eat pizza topped with mushrooms b. bake bread c. live in a world free of dead things lying all over the place d. put blue cheese dressing on your salad

7. If you decided to throw a party to celebrate the diversity of life on earth and wanted to send an invitation to each species, how many invitations would you need? n n a. 150 b. about 3, 000 c. 652, 983 d. more than 1. 5 million

8. Biodiversity includes: n n a. the color of your eyes b. the creatures in your neighborhood soil c. Michigan d. your classmates

9. Which of the following would people have to do without if there were no bees? n n n a. almonds b. honey c. cucumbers d. apples e. celery

10. Which of the following is an example of an ecosystem service? n n a. a ladybird beetle that protects your garden by eating aphid pests b. a company that rakes people’s yards c. a wetland that filters dirty water d. an ocean that controls the earth’s climate

11. Which of the following environments on our planet are too harsh to support life? n n n a. boiling sulfur springs, where temperatures are commonly 212˚ F (100˚ C) b. deep-sea hydrothermal vents where the temperature can reach 662˚ F (350˚ C) c. the frigid ice of the Arctic and Antarctic d. all of the above e. none of the above

12. Some of the world’s most fascinating creatures live in really unusual places. Which of the following is sometimes a home for another living thing? n n a. a caterpillar’s abdomen b. a termite’s gut c. a white-tailed deer’s intestine d. a human’s forehead

Find out the answers!

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