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Join us in Peru for our annual Educator Academy in the Amazon, July 1-11. Get the details here: https://morphoinstitute.org/educator-academy/ 
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The Amazonian amphibian produces a chemical camouflage that renders it invisible to its aggressive ant neighbors.
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Golden orb-web spiders (Nephila clavipes) are sit-and-wait hunters that accumulate prey larders on their webs. These larders are sometimes stolen by other spiders. If prey items are removed from their webs, golden orb-web spiders search for them. They search longer when they have lost more prey items as well as when they have lost larger…
The Morpho Institute's insight:
We often see orb-web spiders during our rainforest workshops. Here's a great example to share with students of how the simple act of slowing down and making observations can lead to new questions, new discoveries, and fascinating natural history stories.
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"PEI workshops include FieldSTEM® guides for educators providing frameworks for how to implement rigorous, integrated, outdoor field experiences with students."
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Excited to be adding this great guide from Pacific Education Institute to the resource kit for the Educator Academy in the Amazon! You can get it NOW as a free download https://pacificeducationinstitute.org/work/fieldstem-resources/
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Awesome resource for HS/AP science teachers! Including some pretty great environmental papers that can help connect the Amazon to your classroom!
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February 18, 2015 / Volume XXXVII / Issue I Fantastical insects, glowing fungi, leaf-cutter ant colonies and glorious sights of canopies stretching as far as the eye can see. These are just some of...
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AS MAPS showing the distribution of animals make clear, two main factors limit critters' range: latitude and altitude. Distance from the equator and height above sea...
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While the research in this article was conducted in Phillipine rainforests, it certainly applies to the Amazon. Last summer our Educator Academy participants conducted simplified vertical field studies that asked many of the same questions!
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September 24, 2013 5:37 PM
While the research in this article was conducted in Phillipine rainforests, it certainly applies to the Amazon. Last summer our Educator Academy participants conducted simplified vertical field studies that asked many of the same questions! |
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