Teaching Bird Identification & Vocabulary with Twitter

Autor/inn/en	Hallman, Tyler A.; Robinson, W. Douglas
Titel	Teaching Bird Identification & Vocabulary with Twitter
Quelle	In: American Biology Teacher, 77 (2015) 6, S.458-461 (4 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0002-7685
Schlagwörter	Animals; Teaching Methods; Identification; Biodiversity; Vocabulary Development; Social Networks; Familiarity; Assignments; Elementary Secondary Education; Higher Education; Guides; Classification + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Animal; Tier; Tiere; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Identifikation; Identifizierung; Biodiversität; Wortschatzarbeit; Social network; Soziales Netzwerk; Assignment; Auftrag; Zuweisung; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Handbuch; Leitfaden; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem
Abstract	Species identification is essential to biology, conservation, and management. The ability to focus on specific diagnostic characteristics of a species helps improve the speed and accuracy of identification. Birds are excellent subjects for teaching species identification because, in combination with their different shapes and sizes, their plumages have distinctive colors and patterns that vary characteristically from species to species. Bird feather tracts have specific names so that proper descriptions of colors and patterns on those tracts can improve the precision and conciseness of identification criteria. We use popular social media (Twitter) to engage students in an exercise designed to familiarize them with avian species identification and improve their use and comprehension of vocabulary. This exercise can be used in higher education for ornithology and other identification courses, as well as in primary education as a basic introduction to species and biodiversity. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01