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. Objective 1A: Students can tell others […]

{ 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 } 2024-10-07. Protection efforts have resulted in ~10% of existing fish biomass on coral reefs. By Iain R. Caldwell et al, PNAS. Excerpt: The amount of ocean protected from fishing and other human impacts has often been used as a metric of […]

Staying current for Chapter 6 { Losing Biodiversity Contents } 2024-10-10. ‘Alarming’ decline of seed-dispersing animals threatens Europe’s plants. By Erik Stokstad, Science. Excerpt: Without birds to spread their seeds, the diversity of fruit-producing plants declined, illuminating the critical importance of seed dispersal for ecosystem health. …Today in Science, a team reports that at least one-third of European plant […]

Staying current for Chapter 5 See Non-chronological resources for this chapter { Losing Biodiversity Contents } 2024-08-10. Can Dirt Clean the Climate? By Somini Sengupta, The New York Times. Excerpt: Across 100,000 acres in the vast agricultural heartland of Australia, an unusual approach is taking root to slow down the wrecking ball of climate change. […]

Staying current for Chapter 4 See Non-chronological resources for this chapter { Losing Biodiversity Contents } 2024-11-14. Meet Evo, the DNA-trained AI that creates genomes from scratch. By Mitch Leslie, Science. Excerpt: ChatGPT, the famous artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, can summarize Moby Dick, write computer code, and serve up a recipe for chicken à la king […]

Staying current for Chapter 3 See Non-chronological resources for this chapter { Losing Biodiversity Contents } 2024-10-10. Ecological speciation in Darwin’s finches: Ghosts of finches future. By Jeffrey Podos and Katie M. Schroeder. Science. Editor’s summary: When we think of a species adapting to environmental change, we mostly think about one trait. However, changes in one trait will likely […]

Staying current for Chapter 2  { Losing Biodiversity Contents } 2023-10-16. Blood Memory–The American Buffalo. [https://www.pbs.org/video/american-buffalo-episode-1-blood-memory/] or [https://www.pbs.org/show/the-american-buffalo] Documentary By Ken Burns. Description: For untold generations, America’s national mammal sustained the lives of Native people, whose cultures were intertwined with the animal. Newcomers to the continent bring a different view of the natural world, and […]

Staying current for Chapter 1 {2021}-{2011–2020}-{2001–2010} See Non-chronological resources { Losing Biodiversity Contents } 2024-12-01. How a rare animal was saved from the brink of extinction in Yosemite National Park. By Suzie Dundas, SFGATE. Excerpt: Yosemite National Park’s Sierra Nevada yellow-legged frogs were so abundant in the mid-1800s that “it would be difficult to avoid […]