Ecological Field Techniques

Investigating nature with kids and students: Scientific studies research methods

This App contains ecological field studies techniques that can be conducted in wild nature by non-professional researchers - school and university students together with their teachers, single beginning investigators, families, amateurs of all ages.

It includes 40 environmental study lessons (see below) divided by four seasons (Autumn, Winter, Spring and Summer) and covered a wide variety of activities in nature. These activities (lessons) focus on five main themes (subjects) - landscape, botany, zoology, water ecology and environmental monitoring.

The list of all topics with their annotations you can found at https://ecosystema.ru/eng/eftm/manuals/

Additionally, you can order Kindle eBooks and Kindle Paperback books containing all of these manuals at https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B082RYY9TG/allbooks

These lessons promote a wide variety of outcomes which correspond to established educational standards in many countries. The ecological field study activities address content standards in the areas of earth science, life science, biology, ecology and the nature of science. Intellectual skill development includes questioning, data collection, analysis and drawing conclusions.

This App promotes understanding of ecosystems and the protection of the environment through the training of teachers in specific field study techniques, the education of young people in ecology concepts and issues and the sharing of ecological study results between colleagues.

This App is addressed to the middle and secondary level science teachers and students, and for all those who would like to investigate local wild nature, to share ecological and cultural information and work together to help create a better environment.

IN-APP PURCHASES

The free version of this App includes a list of 40 manuals with their annotations and links to 40 instructional videos that illustrate field techniques described in the manuals. You can purchase manuals directly in the application in various options: all 40 manuals ($8.99), as well as manuals divided by 6 topics ($3.99) or by 4 seasons of the year ($6,99).

The list of all 40 field study lessons:

I. GEOGRAPHY:

Orienteering in the forest

Eye Survey of the Field Study Site

Mapping Forest Vegetation

Geological Exposure Description

Minerals and Rocks

Profiling a River Valley Slope

Soil Description

Integrated Study on Landscape Profile

Description of Small Rivers and Streams

Study of Snow Cover

Making a Campfire

II. BOTANY:

Species Composition and Number of Fungi

Making a Herbarium

Flora of Your Local Environment

Vertical Structure of a Forest

Green Plants Under Snow

Ecology of Early Flowering Plants

Phenology of Plant Florescence

Assessment of Ecological Features of Meadows

Vital State of Coniferous Underbrush

Growth Dynamics of Trees Based on Annual Rings

Vital State of a Forest Based on Pine-tree Analysis

Environmental State of the Forest Based on Leaves’ Asymmetry

III. ZOOLOGY:

Forest Invertebrates 1: Forest Litter and Wood

Forest Invertebrates 2: Grass, Tree Crowns and Air

Water Invertebrates in a Local River

Species Composition and Abundance of Amphibians

Making Feeders and Nesting Boxes

Species Composition and Census of Birds

Studies of Bird Populations

Day Activity of Singing Birds

Birds’ Nesting Life

Observation of a Chickadee Flock's

Winter Mammals Route Census by Footprints

Mammal Ecology According to Their Tracks

IV. HYDROBIOLOGY:

Description of Small Rivers

Physical and Chemical Properties of Natural Waters

Water Invertebrates and Assessment of River Environmental State

Study of Plankton

Fauna of Spring Temporary Water Bodies

Species Composition and Abundance of Amphibians

V. BIOINDICATION:

Lichen Indication

Vital State of a Forest

Ecological Features of Meadows

Environmental State of the Forest

Vital State of Coniferous Underbrush

Complex Environmental Assessment of Human Impact on an Area

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