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Lesson Plan: Animal Patterns of Reproduction

December 15, 2019 Sam Long
Image shows nine animals species that exhibit sexual dimorphism or unique reproductive strategies: elephant seals, seahorses, mallad ducks, Indian peafowl, Mormon cricket, honey bee, magnificent riflebird, clownfish, and slipper limpet.

Image shows nine animals species that exhibit sexual dimorphism or unique reproductive strategies: elephant seals, seahorses, mallad ducks, Indian peafowl, Mormon cricket, honey bee, magnificent riflebird, clownfish, and slipper limpet.

In this lesson, students learn briefly about the reproductive strategies nine different animal species. Student use a tally to track what strategies are most common - for example, male competition, female mate choice. More unique patterns like sex-changing clownfish and touch-mediated sex development are included within the nine species.

When I taught this lesson, students learned about each species through short video recordings of teachers in our school describing the species. For more general use, I changed the lesson as posted on this website to have students do online research instead of watching the videos.

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In lesson plans Tags reproduction, animal species, sexual selection, sexual reproduction, lesson

[HS and College] Inclusive and Accurate Approaches for Teaching Sex and Gender in Biology

December 10, 2019 Sam Long
Image of a presentation slide with the rainbow-colored Project Biodiversify logo containing an atom, a DNA double helix, a single-celled organism, a plant, and a winged insect. Title reads “ESA 2018 WK 44: Inclusive and Accurate Approaches for Teach…

Image of a presentation slide with the rainbow-colored Project Biodiversify logo containing an atom, a DNA double helix, a single-celled organism, a plant, and a winged insect. Title reads “ESA 2018 WK 44: Inclusive and Accurate Approaches for Teaching Sex and Gender in Biology.” The bottom of the image lists three presenter names: Alex Webster - she/her/hers - @alxweb, Ash Zemenick - they/them/theirs - @mtn_ash, and Sarah Jones - she/her/hers - @joness943.

Project Biodiversify team members Alex Webster, Ash Zemenick, and Sarah Jones presented this workshop at the 2018 Annual Meeting for the Ecological Society of America (ESA). The slides contain comprehensive information about the benefits of teaching inclusive biology, and how to adapt existing curricula using an iterative process. Extensive examples are given for sexual reproduction, sex determination, and sexual selection.

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