BIODIVERSITY MODULE REVEIW Funded by the Teacher Quality Program A project of : The State Botanical Garden of Georgia, The GA Museum of Natural History and Georgia 4-H

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?

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. BIODIVERSITY MODULE

Each module contains 4 main Lessons as well as a suggested Citizen Science project.

FRONT BACK GRAB YOUR GEN QUICK GUIDE! QUICK GUIDE Features: Essential Questions At A Glance Concepts Objectives Learning cycle wheel Procedures / Supplies Biodiversity Quick Guides 75 minute lesson plans

Biodiversity Module: Quick Guide 1

Biodiversity Module: Quick Guide 2

Biodiversity Module: Quick Guide 3

Biodiversity Module: Quick Guide 4

BIODIVERSITY MODULE: -REVIEW RESOURCES Introductory PowerPoint Instructor Background Info Internet search

12 Welcome to the Biodiversity Department

13 Everyplace on Earth is an ecosystem, including our club site.

14 In today’s club adventure, we will investigate the Biodiversity Department eco-services…

15 …provided at our club site.

16 Storehouses of species

17 What is biodiversity? Diversity of genes Diversity of species Diversity of ecosystems

18 BIODIVERSITY: Storehouse of genetic diversity

19 BIODIVERSITY: Species diversity Worldwide From E.O. Wilson, the Diversity of Life

20 Species diversity Animals From E.O. Wilson, the Diversity of Life

21 Species diversity Plants From E.O. Wilson, the Diversity of Life

22 Diversity of Ecosystems

23 Georgia is home to more than 4,000 species of native or naturalized vascular plants and vertebrate animals.

24 Approximately 347 species of birds live in Georgia.

25 Georgia has about 80 species of amphibians, including more than 50 kinds of salamanders.

26 Georgia has forty-one native species of snakes.

27 The southeastern United States has the greatest freshwater mollusk diversity in the world.

28 Diversity maintains stability in interdependent systems

29 Many important products from wild species Gene resources Medicine Timber

30 Dr. Arrow is in charge of the Biodiversity Department in Garden Earth.

31 Biodiversity is Amazing! How will we learn about the Biodiversity Department?

32 What Lives Here?

33 Threats to biodiversity: Extinction The Franklinia Tree – Disappeared in the Wild

34 Threats to Biodiversity: Loss or Deterioration of Habitat

35 Worldwide reasons for biodiversity loss: overpopulation over-consumption poverty

36 What can you do to help Garden Earth’s Warehouse?

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! & PLEASE SEND PHOTOS OF YOUR ACTIVITIES