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Trophic Cascades

By: Tim Guilfoyle
03.07.18
Teaching Topic
Teaching Methods
Science Topic
Ecology
Level
High School — GeneralHigh School — AP/IB
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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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Video Resource
Some Animals Are More Equal than Others: Keystone Species and Trophic Cascades
Interactive Media
Exploring Trophic Cascades
Activity Resource
Modeling Trophic Cascades

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