Educators: What better way to show the predator/prey dynamic than through a game? In this webinar for 4th–8th grade educators, you'll speak with Smithsonian behavioral ecologist Dr. Rachel Page about her career studying the mechanisms that enable predators to find their prey and those that help their prey avoid them. You'll also get a hands-on walkthrough of a suite of teaching and learning materials featuring Dr. Page's work (s.si.edu…); an online two-player game that simulates the predator/prey interactions between the fringe-lipped bat and túngara frog, a connected data entry activity, classroom materials on echolocation, and much more. Dr. Page is the Principal Investigator of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute’s Gamboa Bat Lab. She investigates the sensory and cognitive ecology of foraging behavior of Neotropical bats and their prey, studies how an animal’s sensory and perceptual systems define the world it perceives around it, and examines how predators integrate diverse sensory modalities to exploit prey signals in foraging. This is the second in a series of three “Smithsonian Teacher Training: How to Be a Scientist” webinars featuring the research and contributions of Smithsonian women scientists. Live Closed Caption and ASL will be available. Webinars will be archived for later viewing. |