Angelo Coast Range Reserve

05 May, 05 AM - 07 May, 05 AM

The purpose of this field trip is to introduce our class of middle school students to the diversity of organisms that live in the wildlands of California, and to the ways that researchers study this diversity. The school class will be led by 2 UC Berkeley graduate students familiar with the site, and assisted by two classroom teachers plus an undergraduate assistant. Activities will be designed to engage the students in inquiry-based learning and to demonstrate field techniques including plant identification and pressing, transect or plot style vegetation surveys, the use of sweep nets and beating sheets to sample of insect diversity, live trapping of small mammals, the use of fluorescent powder to track movements of rodents, track plates, using a black light to attract night flying insects, the use of a bat detector, etc. An additional part of our overall program is to develop a collection of natural history objects (insect and plant specimens, vertebrate sign, and photos of vertebrates and habitats) and data that the students will analyze, curate, and display at their school. Through these field trips, lessons conducted by graduate students in the school classroom, and the students? own work and ownership of the collections, we hope to enhance their experience with and understanding of the study of biology and natural history, increase their appreciation of California?s biodiversity, and, perhaps open some pathways into further study of science. Graduate students leading the trip will provide a detailed schedule of activites in February. Activities will be similar or identical to those the GK-12 project has done in the past and will be adjusted, if necessary, to meet the approval of the reserve steward.

Visit #6580 @Angelo Coast Range Reserve

Approved

Under Project # 4945 | Public Use

UC BNHM GK-12

other - University of California, Berkeley

Reservation Members(s)

Group of 2 K-12 Instructor May 5 - 7, 2005 (3 days)
Group of 6 K-12 Student May 5 - 7, 2005 (3 days)
Group of 5 Other May 5 - 7, 2005 (3 days)

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Fox Creek Lodge 13 May 5 - 7, 2005