Tabizi Pythons and Clendro Hawks: Using Imaginary Animals to Achieve Real Knowledge about Ecosystems

Autor/in	Rockow, Michael
Titel	Tabizi Pythons and Clendro Hawks: Using Imaginary Animals to Achieve Real Knowledge about Ecosystems
Quelle	In: Science Scope, 30 (2007) 5, S.16-22 (7 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0887-2376
Schlagwörter	Animals; Ecology; Science Instruction; Models; Plants (Botany); Imagination; Creative Teaching; Environment; Food; Secondary School Science; Middle School Teachers; Lesson Plans; Planning + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Animal; Tier; Tiere; Ökologie; Teaching of science; Science education; Natural sciences Lessons; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht; Analogiemodell; Pflanze; Creative thinking; Teaching; Kreatives Denken; Unterricht; Umwelt; Lebensmittel; Middle school; Middle schools; Teacher; Teachers; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Lesson planning; Unterrichtsplanung; Ablaufplanung; Planungsprozess
Abstract	The author describes how he used to teach a unit on food webs and ecosystems using actual food webs as models. However, the models used by the author tend to be either too simplistic or too complicated for his students. A few years ago, he solved these problems by making up his own food web, complete with invented plants and animals. The model has allowed him to control the complexity of the food web. In this article, the author describes how to prepare this unit. (Contains 6 figures.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10