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Trautmann, Nancy M.; Makinster, James G.; Batek, Michael – American Biology Teacher, 2013
Using an interactive map-based PDF, students learn key concepts related to biodiversity while developing data-analysis and critical-thinking skills. The Bird Island lesson provides students with experience in translating geospatial data into bar graphs, then interpreting these graphs to compare biodiversity across ecoregions on a fictional island.…
Descriptors: Biodiversity, Critical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Data Analysis
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Torres, Sergio; Powers, Judith L. – Science Scope, 2009
In the exciting, "out of this world" activity described here, students measure the Earth using meter sticks while measuring their shadows in two distant locations. To obtain the size of the Earth, students discover the connection between the measurements of the shadows and a model of the spherical Earth following the method developed by…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Geometric Concepts, Middle School Students, Models