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Hybrid Beachgrass Discovery

Lesson Plan: Hybrid Beachgrass Discovery

Links to the materials included in the lesson plan

• Discoveries
  • Coolest scientific discoveries, April 2022
• Key Vocabulary
  • Dunes and beachgrasses (pdf)
• Discovering New Organisms
  • Presentation (ppt)(pdf)
• Life Imitating Art
  • Reading: How the 'Dune' sci-fi drama parallels the real science of Oregon's dunes
• Dunes and Ecology
  • Presentation (ppt)(pdf)
  • Positive and negative impacts (pdf)(doc)
• Hybrid Beachgrass Discovery
  • Video: A Wild Grass Chase State of the Coast presentation [10:32]
  • Beachgrasses of the PNW (pdf)
• Beachgrass Project - Field
  • Beachgrass Project Field Guide (pdf)
  • Teacher Field Trip Guide (pdf)
  • Student Hybrid Beachgrass workbook: Field Trip Edition (pdf)(doc)
• Beachgrass Project - Class
  • Student Hybrid Beachgrass workbook: Class Edition (pdf)(doc)
  • Beachgrass Traits data (xls)
• Career Connections
  • Researcher Bio: Risa Askerooth (pdf)
  • Careers in Science lesson from PBS
• Visualizing Data
  • Student dune profile worksheet (pdf)(doc)
  • Dune profile data (xls)
  • Teacher Notes for dune profile analysis (pdf)
  • Beach profiling method

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