"Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of facts."--Carl Sagan
Critical Thinking Skills ... More
Eco-Village Curriculum ​(32 weeks)​
Eco-Village © ​
Animal Ethograms and Phenology (Ages 8-14)
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Learning Goals
​1) Understanding animal behavior (via ethograms,
sign-reading--tracking)
2) Understanding animal behavior in the context of
larger and more complex ecological interactions
(systems)
3) Understanding animal behavior in the context of
human culture and needs
4) Focus on local terrestrial (and avian) species
(introduced, indigenous, or endemic)
5) Understanding animal’s life seasonal cycles in
relationship to species-specific changes and
development (ontogeny and phylogeny), seasonal
changes, or human intervention (phenology)
6) Data gathering, summary, statistical analyses, and
interpretation
​ LINKS

Jim Halfpenny's: A Naturalist's World



​Ha​​waiian Ecosystems at Risk Project
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1) Sign-reading and Tracking​
​1a. Signs (I, A)*
1b. Movement (E)
1c. Diagnostics (M, L)
1d. Ecological Interpretation (S, C, A)
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2) Stalking ​
2a. Fox-walking (I, C)
2b. Biomechanics A (I, L, C)
2c. Stalking (A, E, I, C)
2d. Weather, Climate, and Tropes (S)
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3) Ethograms and the Observational Method (s)​
3a. Subject and Object (Theory of Mind) (I, C, E)
3b. Observational Methods (M, S, A, E)
3c. Data summary, analysis, and interpretation (M)
3d. Ethograms (S, A)
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4) Dead Reckoning Navigation​
4a. A Sense of Place (I, C)
4b. Dead Reckoning (E)
4c. Navigation Vectors (the easiest way to…for whom?) (M, S, E)
4d. Biomechanics B (S, M)
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5) Phenology
5a. A Season to Be (I, C)
5b. Are there seasons in Maui? (C, A)
5c. The life and seasons of a feral pig
5d. The life and seasons of a feral goat
5e. The life and seasons of an axis deer
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6) End-of-year Presentation/Project: Assisted and mentored
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​*(Type of Lessons: A: Applied; C: Culture; E: Experiential; I: Impressionistic; M: Math;
L: Language; & S: Science)
