Ecology Lesson Activities

*Note: The Ecosystem Sharing Board is no longer active.

"The science of ecology, the study of the interactions between living things and their environments, circles back to the ancient wisdom found in the rich oral traditions of American Indian stories. Time and again the stories have said that all of the living and non-living parts of the Earth are one and that people are a part of that wholeness. Today, Western ecological science agrees"

— Keepers of the Earth

The three goals of the Ecology Lesson are:

• To teach the basic concepts of ecology by having students develop a model of their local ecosystem and share it on the Ecosystem Sharing Board.*
• To present traditional stories that express an ecological understanding of the world.
• To demonstrate student-developed "Cocoa Worlds", a programming application for children.**

  * The Ecosystem Sharing Board is no longer active.
  ** Cocoa was a program developed by Apple that the company cancelled in 1998.

  

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