VOLUME 4: Table of Contents
TEACHING ISSUES AND EXPERIMENTS IN ECOLOGY
TEACHING
ALL VOLUMES
SUBMIT WORK
SEARCH
Section 3: How significant is this relationship to army ant colonies?
Purpose: To practice interpreting graphical presentation of experimental results; to estimate the ecological significance of antbird parasitism on an army ant colony.
Teaching Approach: "informal group work"
Cognitive Skills: (see
Bloom's Taxonomy) — knowledge, comprehension, application
Student Assessment: essay
BACKGROUND
In this section, students interpret graphical data and make some calculations to figure out how significant "theft" of food by birds is to an army ant colony.
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