How Can Biodiversity Be Preserved?

Contact Information

Phone: 800-578-1114 or 650-723-1114
Fax: 650-723-6784

Email: spice-sales@stanford.edu

Street Address: Stanford University, Encina Hall East, Ground Floor
Stanford, California 94305-6055

Last Updated: 11-21-2004

Compendium Resource

Reviewer Comments

General Content
"Good information about threats to biodiversity."

Presentation
"Statistics need to be updated."

"Neat layout—easy to read."

Pedagogy
"Allows student to infer and solve problems by using open-ended questions."

"Many higher level thinking questions."

"Project-based lessons."

Teacher Usability
"Material may be difficult for middle school students, especially [those with] reading difficulties."

Focus on Communities
"Good combination of natural and human communities."

"A great work on biodiversity, but it is limited to only biodiversity."

EE Program/Resource ss Details

Provided by: Stanford Program on International & Cross-Cultural Educ. (SPICE) Institute for International Studies

Description: How Can Biodiversity Be Preserved? (1996, 104 p.) is a grade 6—10 science and social science curriculum unit that examines the methods by which biodiversity can be preserved. Students explore various approaches to preservation and identify the challenges each poses to policy makers. Use of primary source material is key, and excerpts from journals, newspaper articles, and books are provided for student review and critique. Nine activities introduce the concept and significance of biodiversity, examine six preservation strategies, and culminate the unit with an action project in which students develop a neighborhood plan for preserving local biodiversity. Handouts, activity cards, and resource cards are also provided.

Web Address: http://spice.stanford.edu/

Program/Resource Type: Curriculum, Publication

Audience Served: 6, 7, 8, 10

Cost: $39.95

EE Focus: Biodiversity, Economics, Legislation, Sustainable Development

Academic Focus: History/Social Sciences, Science, Interdisciplinary

Counties Served: Statewide

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Report Card

Overall Grade
General Content
Presentation
Pedagogy
Teacher Usability
Community

B+
A-
B
A-
B+
A-

Discipline Emphasis

Science
History/Social Science
Health
Mathematics
Visual/Performing Arts
Language Arts
Industrial/Vocational Ed.
Foreign Language