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Snapshot Serengeti: Implementing an online module about Serengeti wildlife ecology in a community-college ecology course
Author(s): James Wiebler
Muscatine Community College/ Nahant Marsh Education Center
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Description
Overview of Module:
In this lab sequence, you will generate real scientific data to be collected in a database used for research on Serengeti wildlife populations. Additionally, you will learn to use the database to answer your own questions about Serengeti wildlife. This week you will become familiarized with the Snapshot Serengeti project and its data, practice making observations from photos and forming a hypothesis about what you observe.
Summary of implementation plan
Snapshot Serengeti will be implemented by James Wiebler in Ecology (BIO-295) to undergraduate students at Muscatine Community College during the Spring Semester, 2024. Students will complete the learning objectives as described in the implementation plan. The module will be implemented using lecture and discovery learning through the use of group discussions, field trips, field sampling, and case study applications. The module may be adapted so that camera trap data are also collected at Nahant Marsh Education Center, a partner of Muscatine Community College. Quizzes and exams will be developed and implemented on pertinent material from the module.
Support was provided by: A grant from the United States National Science Foundation (DBI-RCN-UBE 2120141).
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Researchers should cite this work as follows:
- James Wiebler (2023). Snapshot Serengeti: Implementing an online module about Serengeti wildlife ecology in a community-college ecology course. OCELOTS FMN: Implementing an online module in tropical biology, (Version 2.0). QUBES Educational Resources. doi:10.25334/FE76-2702