Nature Calendar of Events

Dear students,
Check out the links to birding on Cape Cod, Song Bird Migrations, Explore Cape Cod as well as Nature Trails.  These might help you with your nature calendar.  Good Luck.

Course Description

Ecology is a division of Biology that studies the relationship between living organisms and their environment. The name, Ecology , is derived from the Greek word, oikos, meaning house or home.

Ecologists are interested in learning about the factors, living and non-living, that support or limit populations of any species. Ecologists study influences on population growth and decline. Ecologists want to know how man affects the balance of nature.

This course is a project-based field course. You will be expected to participate in off site research, collecting data, making observations, drawing and labeling critters collected and/or observed. It is hoped that this course will teach you an appreciation and respect for the Earth and all creatures large and small living on it.

"Any piece of knowledge which the pupil has himself acquired - any problem which he has himself solved, becomes, by virtue of the conquest, much more thoroughly his than it could else be." 

Herbert Spencer

The GreenHouse Effect

 If you missed class, click on the link below to see the video presented in class.

Greenhouse Effect

Reconnecting

Dear Honors Ecology Students,
It is time to use this blog. Check out the side bar for links to sites that will support your studies. See the new NOAA site for weather info. Post a question or a comment when you have a chance. I will post the weekly homework for your reference on the sidebar.

Check it out!

I have added some sites to help you with tricky info about your biome. For example, there is a new link to info on soils in the tropical rainforest. There is also a link to average weather in your biomes.

Remember that spring is coming in two days. Keep your eyes to the skies. Watch for the birds returning. Check out the osprey platforms. Listen with your ears to the new sounds of birds setting up their territories and attracting their mates.

Biome Project

To help you with your biome project, see the links to essential info under the Favorite links section of this blog.