Curricular Materials

Part of the River Ecology Curriculum Collection.

These video segments and text passages with discussion questions (listed below) provide a case study of the Cary Institute scientists at work on the river and in their labs. You can watch the video segments and read the passages to help answer the discussion questions. There is also a 7-minute video documentary feature of the Cary Institute scientists’ work.

Passage One: An Unwelcome Newcomer

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Passage Two: Zebra Mussels and the Hudson River

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Passage Three: The Short-Term Impact of the Zebra Mussel Invasion

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Passage Four: Long-Term Monitoring of the Hudson River

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Watch this short documentary on an invasion of zebra mussels in the Hudson River.

The Invasion: A Case Study on the Hudson River

The Invasion: A Case Study on the Hudson River

 

Article Overview Background information about the Hudson River, its inhabitants, and their interactions. Article Graph the Data Graph the Data to pick which factors to view in relation to one another.  Article Make a Scatterplot Make a Scatterplot to help observe patterns in the data.