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Fieldwork: is biodiversity higher in unmanaged areas? (and extended writing)

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Question types: calculation, short answer, multiple choice, true or false, table completion.

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In our school-grounds fieldwork (illustrative data, not measured), the mean number of plant species per quadrat was 3.3 at Site A (mown grass) and 8.3 at Site B (unmown grass by the hedge). Which site had more plant species on average?

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Plan a fair plant survey, then use quadrat results from a mown and an unmown patch to calculate means and ranges, spot an anomaly and describe what the fieldwork found.

18 slides.

Lesson outline

  1. Hook
  2. Do Now — Retrieval
  3. Keywords for This Lesson
  4. Teach — the enquiry process
  5. Teach — the random quadrat method
  6. Task — Match the kit and the risks
  7. Teach — today's data
  8. I Do
  9. Task — Calculate the means for Site B
  10. Teach — mean plant species per quadrat at each site
  11. Hinge Check
  12. Task — Describe two differences between the sites
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