Behavioral Ecology Teacher Resources

Students watch slide show describing life cycle and migration routes of monarch butterflies, create model monarch butterflies, and examine overwintering biology and behavior ecology of monarchs to determine whether monarch aggregations...

Scholars voice their opinions about animal consciousness with an article that challenges common ideas about nature. After reading the article, learners engage in a thoughtful discussion before writing out their arguments in a persuasive...

Students explore the different types of interspecies and interspecies interactions that can occur during a field trip to the zoo. In small groups, they create ethograms for ten minute observations of at least two different species in a...

Depending on the level of maturity of your class, the case study presented here could be fascinating. It focuses on the mating behavior and post-mating rituals of the Australian redback spider, which involves the female eating the male...

In this ecology learning exercise, students read information about ecology and the nine ecology subdivisions and answer comprehension questions. Students answer ten questions in this matching and fill in the blank learning exercise.

In this biology worksheet, 9th graders create a graph using the data collected on the scientific method. Then they locate the scientific article about Galileo and respond to each of the questions listed relating to the hypothesis of the...

Learners participate in a foraging activity that demonstrates environmental conditions playing an important role in determining the optimal foraging behavior of a particular organism.