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Biodiversity Its all connected!
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How can we grow our fuel and save the
butterflies, too?

• How can we create a balance that gives us high
  productivity and high biodiversity?
• Why do we want high productivity?
• Why do we want high biodiversity?
• Why might it hard to get both high productivity
  and high biodiversity? (trade-offs)
• Bigger picture concepts
• species interactions
• biotic abiotic interactions
• changes over time

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In this session, teachers will

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

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Session Activities

• 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.
• Practice the Randomization Procedure

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Session Activities (cont.)

• 4. Organize findings/data
• 5. Share results- groups report on their
  findings and discuss processes they used
• 6. Discussion
• 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.

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Whats the Big Idea?

• 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.
• Well be able to use our BEST plots to do all of
  this!!!

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Biodiversity IQ Quiz

• You will be taking a biodiversity quiz to learn
  about some of the tantalizing stranger-than-fictio
  n tidbits that biodiversity has to offer.
• Lets become more familiar with some
  biodiversity basics

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1. Which of the following animals could the
fastest human outrun in a 100-yard race?

• a. cheetah
• b. warthog
• c. American woodcock
• d. domestic cat
• e. wild turkey

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2. Which of the following animals can consume at
least half of its body weight in food each day?

• a. little brown bat
• b. masked shrew
• c. ruby-throated hummingbird
• d. none of the above

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3. Which of the following best describes the word
Biodiversity?

• 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

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4. Which of the following can be considered an
enemy of the Great Lakes?

• a. zebra mussel
• b. spiny water flea
• c. mercury
• d. sea lamprey

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5. Whats the most serious threat to biodiversity?

• a. scientists collecting specimens
• b. habitat loss
• c. tourists
• d. pollution

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6. Without fungi, which of the following would
younot be able to do?

• 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

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7. If you decided to throw a party to celebrate
the diversity of life on earth and wanted to send
aninvitation to each species, how many
invitations would you need?

• a. 150
• b. about 3,000
• c. 652,983
• d. more than 1.5 million

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8. Biodiversity includes

• a. the color of your eyes
• b. the creatures in your neighborhood soil
• c. Michigan
• d. your classmates

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9. Which of the following would people have to
dowithout if there were no bees?

• a. almonds
• b. honey
• c. cucumbers
• d. apples
• e. celery

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10. Which of the following is an example of
anecosystem service?

• a. a ladybird beetle that protects your garden
  
• by eating aphid pests
• b. a company that rakes peoples yards
• c. a wetland that filters dirty water
• d. an ocean that controls the earths climate

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11. Which of the following environments on our
planet are too harsh to support life?

• 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

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12. Some of the worlds most fascinating
creatures live in really unusual places. Which of
the following is sometimes a home for another
living thing?

• a. a caterpillars abdomen
• b. a termites gut
• c. a white-tailed deers intestine
• d. a humans forehead

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Find out the answers!
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Online data entry

• Web Form
• https//spreadsheets1.google.com/spreadsheet/viewf
  orm?formkeydDhldnV2clJTcnViWG5fRERMS0VQRkE6MA
• Spreadsheet
• https//spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?ke
  y0Aik4wLybTNMcdDhldnV2clJTcnViWG5fRERMS0VQRkEhl
  en_USauthkeyCO6F6OsJ