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 } 2026-05-24. Malnorished Gray Whales of the Eastern North Pacific Are in ‘Serious Trouble’. By Blaine Harden, Inside Climate News. Excerpt: The population has plummeted over the past seven years as climate change triggers mass starvation in warming Arctic waters…. […]

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 } 2026-06-08. New CRISPR Technique Selectively Shreds Cancer Cells, Including “Undruggable”. By Andy Murdock, Innovative Genomics Institute. Excerpt: …In a new paper published today in the journal Nature titled “Targeting Cancer-Specific Mutations with RNA-Triggered Chromatin Shredding,“ researchers at the Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI) at UC Berkeley, […]

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 } 2026-05-05. Trump administration moves to push bison off Montana land. By Julia Gomez, USA TODAY. Excerpt: Bison are the national mammal of the United States and are seen as a symbol of the West. Now, the Trump administration is pushing to move the animals from public […]

Staying current for Chapter 1 {2021}-{2011–2020}-{2001–2010} See Non-chronological resources { Losing Biodiversity Contents } 2026-06-18. Hour of the Wolf. By Gretchen Vogel, Science. Excerpt: Wolves have made a spectacular comeback in Europe. But attacks on livestock and humans have caused a heated debate about the limits of coexistence… Full article at https://www.science.org/content/article/wolves-are-reconquering-europe-can-people-learn-live-them. 2026-05-07. The future […]