Strawberry Creek Tour - Stop 2: Water Striders
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| Audience/Grade: | High School Junior -Continuing Education 11-Continuing Education |
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Biological Systems and Agricultural Engineering Civil Engineering Construction Engineering Environmental Engineering Geological Engineering Life Sciences Mobile Learning |
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Teaching - Laboratory/Experiment/Field Activity |
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Organization:EH&S, Strawberry Creek Environmental Quality Committee |
| Description: | Stop 2 on the Strawberry Creek tour. Follow the creek downstream around Faculty Glade. Walk past the brick bridge (the formal entrance to the old Student Union) and behind the statue of former football coach Pappy Waldorf. Stand on the small wooden bridge below and look on the surface of still pools for fascinating insects called water striders. They are probably the most obvious animals that you will see in Strawberry Creek, although dozens of other insect species live among the rocks and in the sediment (such as the larvae of midges and damselflies). The website shows videos of the water striders and other insects and fish here. Image caption: concrete and rock retaining wall near Stephens Hall. |
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| Keywords: | Strawberry Creek UC Berkeley retaining walls |
| Is Component of: |
UC Berkeley Strawberry Creek - Online Tour |
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| Use of Resource: |
Strawberry Creek provides a range of educational opportunities for a field trip and could cover integrative lessons on environmental science, trees, hydrology, geological engineering and life sciences. |
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Easy |
| Interactivity Level: |
Medium |
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| Place Name: | Strawberry Creek |
| Place Type: | Landmark-natural |
| Place Location: | Berkeley, California United States |
| West Longitude: | -122.257222 |
| East Longitude: | -122.257221 |
| North Latitude: | 37.871177 |
| South Latitude: | 37.871176 |
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| Publication Date: | February 2011 |
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WWW |
| Cost: |
Free |
| Download URL: | http://strawberrycreek.berkeley.edu/tour/02waterstriders.html |
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IEEE LOM Record |
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EP on the GO
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