Species Managers
Discovery Center
Overview: Using a bird count information have students graph the results and draw some conclusions.

 

Location: Indoors

Learner Outcomes:

1. Students will understand how graphs help us correlate and use information.

Materials

1. Graph paper
2. Pencils
3. Marker or Crayons

Preparation

1. As a whole group go over basic graphing techniques. (X and Y axis, Titles, start at zero, and even increments.)
2. Break students into groups.
3. Give each student two sheets of graph paper and a data sheet. Briefly explain the data to the students
4. Have students graph.
   
   

1. You Will Need:
   1. Graph Paper
   2. Pencil
   3. Markers or Crayons

Do:

1. Tell each group that they are wetland managers, and must develop and maintain wetlands using only the water that they have. The students must maintain the bird count for their refuge. They need to answer if the populations are increasing or decreasing? Have any new species joined? Or have any left?
2. To do this have students take the raw data and in their groups disseminate it and draw some conclusions to these questions.
   Groups will write their finding in their journals and then discuss them as a whole group.
3. As an extension students can go online and compare past years counts.
   

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