Category: Losing Biodiversity

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{ GSS Teacher Guide Index } { All GSS Books } ~{}~ Objectives [] Assessment [] ResourcesGuides for each Chapter: 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 – 7 – 8 Teaching Objectives Goal 1: Students appreciate how we depend on the biodiversity of our planet. Goal 2: Students perform scientific and mathematical […]

{ To GSS Books } TEACHER GUIDE CONTENTS Introduction 1. Map of the GSS Course 4. How Can I Customize GSS for My Students? 7. How is GSS Related to Science Education Reform? 2. What is Global Systems Science? 5. What Teaching Methods Should I Use? 8. How Was GSS Created? 3. What Will My […]

Staying current for Chapter 7 See Non-chronological resources for this chapter { Losing Biodiversity Contents } 2026-07-26. Can Tech Keep Whales Safe From Deadly Vessel Strikes? By Kiley Price, Inside Climate News. Excerpt: San Francisco Bay is one of the busiest marine superhighways…. Massive container ships cruise alongside crude oil tankers under the Golden Gate […]

Staying current for Chapter 6 { Losing Biodiversity Contents } 2026-03-04. North American birds: from decline to free fall. By Science Advisor. Excerpt: North American bird populations have been falling for decades. But a new study in Science suggests something even more troubling: In many places, those declines are accelerating. Using data from 1033 North American […]

Staying current for Chapter 5 See Non-chronological resources for this chapter { Losing Biodiversity Contents } 2026-06-11. Threads of Earth’s Underground Fungal Networks Are Long Enough to Reach Beyond the Solar System. By Wyatt Myskow, Inside Climate News. Excerpt: For the first time ever, researchers have quantified the length and mass of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal […]

Staying current for Chapter 4 See Non-chronological resources for this chapter { Losing Biodiversity Contents } 2026-07-10. Ancient DNA solves Medici murder mystery. By Taylor Mitchell Brown, Science. Excerpt: It was a warm October day in 1587 when Grand Duke Francesco de Medici succumbed to fever. At the time, doctors suspected malaria, but it didn’t […]

Staying current for Chapter 3 See Non-chronological resources for this chapter { Losing Biodiversity Contents } 2026-04-15. Ten thousand years ago, human evolution went into overdrive. By Andrew Curry, Science. Excerpt: Ancient DNA reveals “massive” genetic shifts tied to rise of farming, wheels, and metal tools. After modern humans made it to Europe some 50,000 […]

Staying current for Chapter 2  { Losing Biodiversity Contents } 2026-08-06. Genes of an icon. By ichael Price, Science. Excerpt: …between 15,000 and 20,000 years ago, bison became central to Indigenous people’s way of living: They ate the animal’s meat and fat, and made clothing and shelter from its hide, tools from its bones, rope […]

Staying current for Chapter 1 {2021}-{2011–2020}-{2001–2010} See Non-chronological resources { Losing Biodiversity Contents } 2026-08-04. Tiny patch of Amazon probably holds 40,000 insect species — many new to science. By Mariana Lenharo, Nature. Excerpt: The Amazon’s lush rainforest harbours a hidden world of tiny creatures, nearly all of them unknown to science. But now hundreds of scientists […]