Colonies of millions of quagga and zebra mussels foul and clog pipes, water treatment plants, and dam turbines and give a competitive boost to toxic algae. It takes only one contaminated boat and the right conditions for zebra and quagga mussels to infest a new watershed; once they have been...
Students use an online quarantine estimator to determine how long zebra mussels can survive out of water. By varying the settings, such as location in country and month of the year, students can observe how the time needed to dry a boat is related to the time of year and...
In this fun activity, students guess answers to clues about invasive species on a bingo-like game-board, and serves as a great introduction for students and teachers alike.
Students conduct a "blitz" by quickly rotating through hands-on specimen stations and answering the BioBlitz questions. Then, students are assigned one invader to research more thoroughly and present to the class.
Students sharpen analytical, logic, and problem solving tools by thinking critically about how human activities spread invasive species and how to control them.
Students practice geographical skills to map the routes of invasive species from their native habitat to some of the regions to which the exotics have spread.
Students pretend to be “invasion investigators” and investigate the appearance of a mysterious new snail in their local creek. Student research the identity and ecology of this new mysterious snail, and design experiments to understand its impact.
Students will develop and apply reading, language arts, and science processes to analyze comics, and demonstrate writing skills in creating their own comic about a local invasive species.