| 1 | <p>This lab provides a rich and flexible version of widely used demography exercises that have been previously based on data collected from cemeteries. This lab teaches life tables and survivorship curves. Over two lab periods, small student groups develop and answer questions comparing the survival patterns of different groups of humans (e.g., groups that differ in geographic area, time period, gender, socio-economic background, or ethnicity). Data on human demography are available from three sources: (1) tombstones in local cemeteries that provide ages at death, (2) on-line cemetery records, and (3) census records that provide the numbers of people alive in different age classes. Students may also compare survivorship curves on the same groups generated by different data sets.</p> | 1 | <p>The module was implemented at the <a href="http://www.njit.edu/" target="_blank">New Jersey Institute of Technology</a> by Caroline M. DeVan. </p>
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| | | 4 | <li><strong>Course</strong>: Biology 205 – Foundations in Ecology and Evolution Honors </li>
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| | | 5 | <li><strong>Course Level</strong>: Second semester freshman/first semester sophomore – required introductory class for biology majors.</li>
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| | | 6 | <li><strong>Instructional Setting</strong>: Lecture – 32 students</li>
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| | | 7 | <li><strong>Implementation Timeframe</strong>: Two class periods (first, Mar 31 – 45 min, second, Apr 5 - 30 min) & homework. Occurred at the beginning of the third and final unit of the course – population ecology unit</li>
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