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Teaching Phenology in Plants (Flowering) through Climate-related Examples

Overview

As a high school or undergraduate Biological Sciences teacher, you can use this set of computer-based tools to help you in teaching the phenology of plants, and phenological events in plants such as flowering.

This lesson plan allows students to understand phenology and phenological events in plants and animals. Further, the activities help students to determine the possible relationship between climate and phenological events such as flowering in plants. The exercises stimulate thinking about the possible impact of climate change on these periodic life-cycle events.

Thus, the use of this lesson plan allows you to integrate the teaching of a climate science topic with a core topic in the Biological Sciences.

Learning Outcome

The tools in this lesson plan will enable students to:

  1. Define phenology
  2. Enumerate various phenological events in plants and animals
  3. Analyze data on life-cycle events in plants to determine trends
  4. Interpret data on life-cycle events in plants
  5. Discuss the possible link between climate and phenological events in plants
  6. Discuss the potential impact of climate change on periodic life-cycle events in plants

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