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Trophic Cascades

By: Tim Guilfoyle
Teaching Topic
Teaching Methods
Science Topic
Ecology
Level
High School — GeneralHigh School — AP/IB

Tim Guilfoyle describes how he uses the BioInteractive short film Some Animals Are More Equal than Others and a claim-evidence-reasoning activity to have his students examine Robert Paine's starfish exclusion experiment.

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