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Activity 1:
English
Ivy-Landscape Plant or Deadly Killer?
Using photos and grids, students learn how to measure percent cover
and diversity of different species
Featured video clips in this activity:
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Restoring
Wildlife Habitat
One
Oregon couple demonstrates how they created a lush wetland
and diverse habitat on a working farm.
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Protecting
the Karner Blue Butterfly
The
Department of Natural Resources is taking an active role in
protecting the habitat of the Karner blue butterfly. |
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Kudzu
Brought
to the US as an ornamental plant from Asia, Kudzu has quickly
taken over much of the South despite efforts to stop it. |
Activity
2:
Measuring Biodiversity
in Your Own Backyard
Using ecologist's tools, students will measure diversity in the
field and learn how greater plant diversity improves the health
of an ecosystem.
Featured video clips in this activity:
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Eradicating
Non-Native Species from Milwaukee Parks
Milwaukee-area
volunteers are working to remove invasive garlic mustard and
buck thorn from local parks and restore natural plant species. |
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War
on Weeds
To
combat invasive, non-native plants, biologists are focusing
on the plants' natural predators: insects. |
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