Biology Assignment

[Phong33]

I was doing some grading today and thought I would share with you one of the assignments. We have recently started a 90g tank in my classroom (There is a thread titled "Help with School Tank" if you want more background info) and it has really sparked a ton of interest and I've been able to use that in many of my lessons. The tank is suppose to be primarily used for my Marine Biology class but I've been able to tie it into many of my general Biology classes as well. In the Biology class, I have them a brief overview of the purpose of live rock and gave them the following prompt to answer. The purpose of the prompt was from them to integrate various concepts that they learned during our Ecology unit (population ecology, population dependence, climate, nutrients/nutrient cycles, etc) into answering the prompt. Anyways, hopefully you'll enjoy the read.

 

[scubabum1983]

Pretty cool. I wish I had any kind of marine bio in high school. If you are interested in getting the students integrated into the college marine science outreach program at UA I'd contact Dr. Katrina Mangin in the ecology program. She runs the outreach program and has interest in the past for coral research. Dr Reinthal is the Ichtheology guy who has a huge fish collection, Dr fitzsimmons runs the phycology class aka algae, and my brother is doing a aquatic insect study and native fish work. I worked on a project in Belize for the conservation of bonefish and permit in Belize. It's shown on tv as bonefish and bucinerrs funded by Tom Brocaw with research done by dr Aaron Aaronson in Clearwater Florida. I also did a brief stint in the marine inverts lab working on a study of large preditory snails in the sea of Cortez. The marine invert collection is really impressive. Dr George Gherles runs the oceanography classes, also an interesting class for the marine interested Ua college bound.
I wish I was still involved. I wound up dropping out of college my 4 th year come to find out later i had several un diagnosed learning disabilities. Hopefully your students can benifit from what they have to offer. Thanks for making marine bio available in the desert.

 

[Phong33]

Awesome, thanks for the info. I'll have to contact them and hopefully get them to do a short lecture for my class.

 

[jimmy_beaner]

Wow, definitely some solid work in there. I'd love to develop some aquarium studies when I finish my PhD next year (also looking to be a professor). Either for early science majors or pre-service teachers.

 

[Phong33]

Wow, definitely some solid work in there. I'd love to develop some aquarium studies when I finish my PhD next year (also looking to be a professor). Either for early science majors or pre-service teachers.

That sounds awesome. I would love to work with you or be your guinea pig for some of your ideas.