| Resource type | Theme | Title | Teaser | Grade Level |
Name |
Comments | Post date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Analysis resources, Tutorials | Constancy & change | How to create a Google Earth map layer of your own data set | Follow these 12 easy steps to create a .kml map layer of your own Vital Signs data. Suitable for all age groups. |
Middle school (grades 6-8) High school (grades 9-12) Professional development |
iSpyaSign | 0 | 2010-04-23 |
| Learning activities | Constancy & change, Scientific inquiry | How many are there? Practice counting & estimating coverage | Before you do your fieldwork, use this skill building activity to practice counting stems and estimating percent cover of plants and sessile animals. Counts and coverage can change quickly from one growing season to the next – especially when invasive species are involved – so it is important to master this skill and monitor the change in coverage frequently. |
Middle school (grades 6-8) High school (grades 9-12) Professional development |
vitalteach | 0 | 2010-08-12 |
| Learning activities | Constancy & change, Invasive species, Scientific inquiry | Mystery Graph: Japanese knotweed (Fallopia japonica) | Use this activity to kick off a Vital Signs investigation focused on invasive Japanese knotweed (Fallopia japonica). Use your graphing skills to figure out and explain what happened during a 3-week study of Japanese knotweed growth. Japanese knotweed’s early, aggressive spring growth helps it out-compete native species for sunlight, space, and nutrients. |
Middle school (grades 6-8) High school (grades 9-12) |
vitalteach | 0 | 2010-08-16 |
| Learning activities | Constancy & change, Ecosystems, Invasive species, Scientific inquiry | Mystery Graph: Purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria) & the Galerucella beetle | Use this activity to kick off a Vital Signs investigation focused on purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria). Use your graphing skills to figure out and explain what happened during a 12-year scientific study in New Jersey to control the spread of invasive purple loosestrife. Learn about a similar study happening at the Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge in Wells, Maine. |
Middle school (grades 6-8) High school (grades 9-12) |
vitalteach | 0 | 2010-08-16 |
| Learning activities | Constancy & change, Ecosystems, Invasive species, Scientific inquiry | Mystery Graph: Hemlock woolly adelgid (Adelges tsugae) | Use this activity to kick off a Vital Signs investigation focused on hemlock woolly adelgid (Adelges tsugae). Use your graphing skills to figure out and explain the introduction and spread of hemlock woolly adelgid in Maine from 1999 to 2010. |
Middle school (grades 6-8) High school (grades 9-12) |
vitalteach | 0 | 2010-08-16 |
| Learning activities | Constancy & change, Ecosystems, Invasive species | 10-Day Curriculum: Population change over time | This 10-day Vital Signs curriculum focuses on how species and populations change over time in response to invasive species introductions. Students use simple graphs to visualize, interpret, make predictions, and tell stories about data based on evidence. By interacting with graphs that depict change over time in three different ways, students gain comfort and mastery of this skill and learning result. | Middle school (grades 6-8) | vitalteach | 0 | 2010-09-06 |
