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Desert Ecology in the Classroom |
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Desert Ecology in the Classroom |
This website is intended to provide ideas and examples of concepts, lesson plans, field trips, and resources to help high school teachers teach desert ecology in the Tucson, Arizona area. Though field trip ideas and resources are local, many ideas can be used in any part of the country, and can also be adapted for use with younger students. These ideas are based on available programs and ideas from educators, as well as my studies of science education, but they have not been tested in actual classrooms.
This is an undergraduate honors thesis, created by Elizabeth Karasz. It was completed in December 2002, under the supervision of Dr. Katrina Mangin, through the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, at the University of Arizona in Tucson: http://www.eebweb.arizona.edu.
If you would like to read more about my thesis, read my statement about this project, or just the abstract (a shorter version).
Bringing the desert into the classroom
Bringing the Desert in to the Classroom, Field Trips, Lesson Plans and Projects, Resources for Teachers, Bibliography