A project of :
The State
Botanical Garden
of Georgia, The
GA Museum of
Natural History
and Georgia 4-H
BIODIVERSITY
MODULE REVEIW
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BIODIVERSITY MODULE REVIEW
Overview: In this module, learners work as
naturalists, displaying curiosity as they
investigate biodiversity on their school site.
Activities include biodiversity hunts, a school
site species count, a line transect, a plot
sampling activity and activities about
medicinal plants and other species that have
economic significance. Specific activities
examine threats to species diversity that can
ultimately lead to extinction.
BIODIVERSITY MODULE
Enduring Understandings:
Learners will understand that…
* All ecosystems contain a variety of organisms that
are interdependent.
Essential Questions:
What is an ecosystem?
What is biodiversity?
What is the relationship between maintaining
ecosystems and biodiversity?
BIODIVERSITY MODULE
Major Concepts:
1. Natural areas represent storehouses for species and
genetic diversity.
2. Maintaining biodiversity is important for the stability
of interdependent species in an ecosystem.
3. Important products have been obtained from wild
species and many other useful products are still to be
discovered.
4. Overpopulation, over consumption of resources, and
poverty creates pressure that leads to the loss of
natural areas.
Each module contains
4 main Lessons as
well as a suggested
Citizen Science
project.
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QUICK GUIDE Features:
•Essential Questions
•At A Glance
•Concepts
•Objectives
•Learning cycle wheel
•Procedures / Supplies
Biodiversity Quick
Guides
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Biodiversity
Module:
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Quick Guide 4
BIODIVERSITY MODULE:
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Introductory PowerPoint
Instructor Background Info
Internet search
Welcome to the
Biodiversity Department
12
Everyplace on Earth is
an ecosystem,
including
our club
site.
13
In today’s club adventure, we
will investigate the
Biodiversity Department
eco-services…
14
…provided at our club site.
15
Storehouses of species
16
What is biodiversity?
Diversity of genes
Diversity of species
Diversity of ecosystems
17
BIODIVERSITY:
Storehouse of genetic diversity
18
BIODIVERSITY:
Species diversity
Worldwide
19
From E.O. Wilson, the Diversity of Life
Species diversity
Animals
20
From E.O. Wilson, the Diversity of Life
Species diversity
Plants
21
From E.O. Wilson, the Diversity of Life
Diversity of Ecosystems
22
Georgia is home
to more than
4,000 species of
native or
naturalized
vascular plants
and vertebrate
animals.
23
Approximately 347 species of birds
live in Georgia.
24
Georgia has about 80 species of amphibians,
including more than 50 kinds of salamanders.
25
Georgia has forty-one native
species of snakes.
26
The southeastern United States has the greatest
freshwater mollusk diversity in the world.
27
Diversity maintains stability in
interdependent systems
28
Many important products from
wild species
Gene resources
Medicine
Timber
29
Dr. Arrow is
in charge of
the
Biodiversity
Department
in Garden
Earth.
30
How will we learn about the
Biodiversity Department?
Biodiversity is Amazing!
31
What Lives Here?
32
Threats to biodiversity: Extinction
The Franklinia Tree – Disappeared in the Wild
33
Threats to Biodiversity: Loss or
Deterioration of Habitat
34
Worldwide
reasons for
biodiversity loss:
overpopulation
over-consumption
poverty
35
What can you
do to help
Garden
Earth’s
Warehouse?
36
Quiz Yourself
1.
True or False. Today people still find new useful products in
our natural areas.
2. What percentage of our pharmaceuticals is derived from
plants?
a. 1%
b. 5% c. 10% d. 25%
3. The insecticide that we obtain from African chrysanthemums
is:
a. pyrethrum
b. avermectin c. vincristine d. taxol
4.
True or False. The greatest number of species is disappearing
from the tropics.
HAVE FUN LEADING THE
BIODIVERSITY MODULE
WITH YOUR LEARNERS!
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ACTIVITIES