Classroom Resources

This activity explores an image of termite mounds in the African savanna, which serves as a phenomenon for learning about ecosystems, competition, and feedback loops.

This interactive module explores niche partitioning, a mechanism that enables similar species of animals to coexist.

This video describes the research of Dr. Manuel Leal, who is studying territorial lizards to understand how they navigate the dense forests of Puerto Rico to find their way to their home trees.

This activity guides the analysis of a published scientific figure from a study that tested how effectively mimicry protects arthropods against different types of predators.

This activity guides the analysis of a published scientific figure from a study that tested how bats use echolocation to adjust their hunting behavior.

This interactive module explores examples of how changes in one species can affect species at other trophic levels and ultimately the entire ecosystem.

In this activity, students make claims about different niche partitioning mechanisms based on scientific data.

This activity guides the analysis of a published scientific figure from a study that investigated how a new predator affected the behavior of Bahaman anoles.

This activity guides the analysis of a published scientific figure from a study that tested how individual fish responded to an artificial model of a fish school.