The Protistan Tales of Atlantic White Cedar Swamps WebQuest features a guided exploration of microbial diversity. It introduces students to the extreme habitat of the Atlantic White Cedar Swamp and encourages them to explore characteristics of the microorganisms that live there. The WebQuest applies the personification theme of Aesop's Fables as a means to acquaint students with protists. It challenges them to search for microbial "personality traits" and to implement these traits into a creative storyline. Through the use of on-line images, descriptions, videos, and reference sites, students will carefully research specific protists while independently developing observational skills essential to microbiology. Upon completion of this WebQuest, students should be able to differentiate protists based on physical characteristics and specialized forms of locomotion, describe the microbial diversity of Atlantic White Cedar Swamps, and apply learned observational skills to hands-on laboratory activities.
- Subject:
- Ecology
- Environmental Science
- Life Science
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Alternate Assessment
- Author:
- Carleton College. Based on a Greening the Campus environmental studies colloquium course taught at Carleton College in 1991.
- Monica Bruckner
- Sarah Bordenstein
- Science Education Resource Center
- Suzanne Savanick
- Date Added:
- 02/13/2019