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Learning
Chart
This chart represents
what students will learn and actions they can take in the learning
process with these
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Inquiries Essential Questions
- What
is an ecosystem?
- How
do ranchers maintain healthy ecosystems?
- Why
do ranchers care about the environment?
- What
is a rangeland?
- How
do rangelands affect water quality?
- Where
does my food come from?
- What
is grazing?
- Who
grazes?
- What
do grazers eat?
- How
much can grazers eat?
- What
does grazing do to the plants?
- Where
does grazing occur?
- How
does grazing affect the ecosystem?
- Do
livestock and wildlife graze the same?
- How
do livestock and wildlife live in the same ecosystems together?
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- How
much grazing can occur each year?
- What
types of recreational uses can occur in conjunction with
grazing?
- How
long can/have rangelands been grazed?
- How
do grazing and ranching impact me?
- Why
can cows, sheep, and big wildlife species eat so much grass?
- How
does overgrazing wear out rangeland resources?
- How
do ranchers know what the conditions of their rangelands
are?
- How
does ranching benefit wildlife?
- How
much land area is covered by rangeland in America?
- How
do plants get energy to grow?
- How
do the parts of an ecosystem rely upon each other?
- What
are important skills to exercise when working with people
who have a different viewpoint than yours?
- What
are the parts of a plant?
- What
are the components of soil?
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Basic
Principles Fundamental Concepts
Principles
- Each
ecosystem hosts a variety of plants and animals that are
uniquely suited to that environment.
- Sustainability,
or a renewable balance between man and nature, is necessary
for a healthy ecosystem.
- People
interact with and impact their environment in both positive
and negative ways.
- Healthy
rangelands depend on maintaining the water, soil, plant,
and animal resources.
- Active
management by ranchers maintains healthy ecosystems.
- Livestock
grazing is compatible with wildlife use and recreation.
- The
aspects of an ecosystem (soil, water, vegetation, animals,
etc.) impact and rely upon each other.
Concepts
- Selectivity
- Land
use / multiple use
- Photosynthesis
- Conservation
- Grazing
- Ranching
- Ecosystems
- Natural
resource ecology
- Recreation
(e.g., Hunting, Fishing)
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- Sustainability
- Erosion
- Monitoring
- Consensus
- Cooperation
- Coordinated
Resource Management (a facilitated meeting of the
minds)
- Livestock
/ Wildlife
- Connectivity
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Methodological
Skills
- Plant
identification
- Stocking
rate calculations
- Management
plans
- Consensus
& cooperation
- Plant
dissection & anatomy
- Water
sampling
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- Aquatic
invertebrate identification
- Flow
rate calculations
- Soil
texturing
- Coordinated
Resource Management (CRM)
- Go
on a nature hike
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Representative
Topics - Variations in Difficulty
- Plant
identification
- Observe
wildlife
- "Plant
Anatomy Pictionary" game
- Go
fishing
- Write
a story/poem/play about a ranch near where you live
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- Make
edible soil (dessert)
- Interview
a rancher
- Tour
a ranch
- Ruminant
biology
- Add
your own ideas:
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