NCEP Exercise- Why is Biodiversity Important: Examples from Everyday Life

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This exercise links a daily activity in your students’ lives to its biological sources. By connecting your students’ lives to biodiversity in a concrete way, the biodiversity crisis becomes present and personal, and will hopefully engage your students to identify potential solutions to these problems. While we used the example of ‘drinking coffee’ for this exercise, one could replace this example with any number of things or activities that are relevant to your students. Additional teaching materials on topics relating to biodiversity conservation and ecology can be obtained free of charge by registering at the Network for Conservation Educators and Practitioners’ website (http://ncep.amnh.org).

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Primary or BEN resource type	Assignment/activity (non-laboratory)
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Format	doc
Ecological Core Concept	Human impacts -- Biodiversity loss Human impacts -- Agriculture and resource harvesting Human impacts Applied ecology -- Conservation Applied ecology
Drought & Water-Ecosystem Services Collection	Off
Conservation Targets Under Global Change Collection	Off
Big Data Collection	Off
Editor's Choice	No
Audience	Undergraduate upper division 15-16 Undergraduate lower division 13-14
Pedagogical Use Description	The objective of this exercise is to explore the importance of biodiversity in a concrete way by linking everyday activities and choices to biological sources.
Keywords	NCEP, conservation, biodiversity, coffee
Life science discipline (subject)	Ecology
Primary Author Controlled Name	M.F. Laverty G. Cullman E.J Sterling
Primary Author Affiliation	American Museum of Natural History
Primary Author email	biodiversty@amnh.org
Rights	Reproduction of this material is authorized by the recipient institution for non-profit/non-commercial educational use and distribution to students enrolled in course work at the institution. Copyright 2006, by the authors of the material, with license for use granted to the Center for Biodiversity and Conservation of the American Museum of Natural History. All rights reserved.
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Reviewer B	Unknown
Date Of Record Submission	2009-04-25

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