This open educational resource is a fun and engaging high school-level lecture including lecture notes on animal parental care highlighting reptile behaviors. We use survivorship curves to frame the lesson, having the class brainstorm on what animals fit in each survivorship curve, along with different species of reptiles that exhibit interesting parenting behaviors. At the end of the lecture, we highlight diverse scientists in the field to make the lecture more inclusive and welcoming.

Creator

• Yi, Haohao
• Lee, Stephanie
• Wix, Anna

Subject

• OER

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Keyword

• reptile behavior
• animal parental care
• survivorship curves

Advisor

• Bakermans, Marja

Year

• 2023

Date created

• 2023

Resource type

• Presentation

Major

• Environmental & Sustainability Studies
• Robotics Engineering
• Biology & Biotechnology

Rights statement

• In Copyright

License

• Creative Commons BY-NC-SA Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

Last modified

• 2023-05-02