Serengeti Basics
The primary migrating mammal the park was established to protect.
What is the wildebeest?
The two competing philosophies about the nature-culture relationship that influenced conservation decisions (one where humans are "apart from" and one where they are "a part of" nature).
What is the nature-culture relationship?
The protected area in the Serengeti system that generally excludes humans from living or taking resources (except tourists).
What is the National Park?
This is the unique phenomenon the Serengeti ecosystem is best known for, involving millions of large mammals.
What is the great mammal migration?
The key unanswered question about the migration that will be investigated in the next lesson.
What is "Why are the animals moving (migrating)?"
The overall goal of Lesson 2: understanding the complex factors and the debate over the nature-culture relationship using the Serengeti as a model.
What is the conservation plan/effort/philosophy?
The name of the reading used to find out the reasons for the park's founding and who was involved in the decision-making.
What is "A Brief History of the Serengeti"?
The part of the system surrounding the National Park that allows activities like living, hunting, or grazing livestock.
What is the reserve or conservation area?
This is what happened to the boundaries of the protected areas over time as scientists learned more.
What is they changed/they were adjusted?
The plan for the next lesson is to look at data, videos, and identify these to connect to predictions about why the animals move.
What are patterns?
This essential document was co-constructed by the class, defining the plan for protecting an ecosystem.
What is a conservation plan?
The main thing, besides protecting the great migration, that the park was established to protect animals from.
What is overhunting?
The main influence that caused the park boundaries to change over time, as scientists gained better understanding.
What is the annual migration route (or the migration of the wildebeest)?
This is what the class developed using their scavenger hunt findings to explain how the park and reserve system was designed.
What is a consensus model (or a model and explanation)?
The two main objectives of the Lesson 2 investigation, which involved reading history and this other activity.
What are the reading the history of SNP and the scavenger hunt?
The Lesson 2 activity where students gathered information from various sources (readings, video, images) at stations organized by categories like Habitats and Biodiversity.
What is the information scavenger hunt?
The belief that humans are fundamentally separate from and must be removed from natural environments in order for them to be preserved, which motivated some early park decisions.
What is the view that humans are "apart from" nature?
These three main things (besides tourists) are allowed in the surrounding reserves/conservation areas but generally not in the National Park.
What is living, hunting, or grazing livestock?
This tool was started by students to summarize key ideas about the Serengeti and connect them to their Conservation Profile from Lesson 1.
What is the Progress Tracker?
The lesson where the class co-constructed community agreements, built a Driving Question Board, and generated initial criteria for conservation.
What is Lesson 1?