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Issue 49 January 2011 Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour Feed back The ASAB education newsletter Feedback ISSN 2042-5724 Issue 49 January 2011 In this issue Dear Colleague 1 Note from the Editor ell, here it is – my final editorial piece for Feedback. The last 2 Forthcoming Events 16 years, and one term, have been immensely enjoyable and rewarding as the ASAB Education Officer and I hope my succes- 3 News and Acknowledgements W sor, Charlotte Evans, enjoys her time in post. When I was compiling the 4 Cartoon – Judy Evans & Why not join ASAB? first newsletter in December 1994, Feedback was a rather modest publica- 5 Animal cameo: southern red wood ant – Dr tion, being just 10 sides of A4 and a monochrome production. Over the Tim Batchelor years the newsletter has grown considerably and we benefited initially by 7 Animal cameo: Roman snail – Sarah having contributions from exceptionally distinguished researchers, includ- Spooner ing John Krebs, Richard Dawkins and Patrick Bateson, writing about how 8 Animal cameo: chaffinch – Nadia Pieretti they got started in animal behaviour. These articles established Feedback as a newsletter of value to teachers. Over the years I have tried to provide 10 Animal cameo: Bloxworth snout – Peter our customary fare of exercises, cameos, news items, articles by a variety of Costen and Dr Michael Dockery contributors, including pupils and students. I hope these termly newsletters 12 ASAB and the ethical treatment of animals have been useful to classroom practitioners. I am personally very grateful in research and teaching – Dr Kate to those kind souls who have sent e-mails to me thanking the ASAB Educa- Buchanan tion Committee for the newsletters and the resources we have produced 14 New resource for AS/A2/Higher and and I`m sure there will other first class resources produced in the coming Advanced Higher – `Investigations into the years. behaviour of ants` 15 New resource for AS/A2/Higher and I would like to take this opportunity to thank a number of people for Advanced Higher – `Foraging behaviour of their involvement with the newsletter and the ASAB education initiative. leaf-cutting ants` Firstly, each of the ASAB Secretaries, Christine Nicol, Mike Hansell, Victoria 16 Exercise - KS1 Animals Brathwaite, Nicola Marples, Iain Barber and Rob Thomas, for their unfailing wisdom, support and encouragement over the last 16 years. To Michael Re- 17 Exercise – KS2 Animals iss for his expert guidance and inspiration during my first year at Homerton 20 Exercise – KS3 Biology College, Cambridge, together with his colleagues Stephen Tomkins and Mag- 24 Exercise – GCSE Biology gie Bolt. To the trustees of the Matthew Eyton Trust for their sponsorship of 29 Exercise – A Level Biology our best selling Biology video/DVD Stimulus Response and its offspring Let`s 32 Exercise – Advanced Higher Biology Ask the Animals. To Judy Evans and Linda Gray who provided so many won- derful illustrations for Feedback – we are very pleased to have the opportu- 36 Exercise - GCSE Psychology 38 Exercise – A Level Psychology 41 Suggested answers to exercises ASAB Education Officer, 43 List of ASAB educational resources Charlotte Evans Association for the Hendre Isaf, Crafnant Road, E-mail: Study of Trefiw, Conwy charlottevirginiaevans@yahoo. LL27 0JZ co.uk Animal 01492 642103. ASAB education website is: Behaviour http://asab.nottingham.ac.uk/ Feedback 49 January 2011 EVENTS nity to reprint Judy`s delightful cartoon on page 17. To the I am delighted to be taking up the reins as the new innumerable teaching colleagues (and often their students) ASAB Education Secretary. The Association for the who attended courses, workshops and conferences we or- Study of Animal Behaviour is the leading academic ganised in the UK, Switzerland and Ireland. To colleagues in society in the field of behavioural biology, and a major the Department of Biological Sciences at Manchester Metro- part of its remit is to promote the teaching of animal politan University who provided help, advice, amusement behaviour and related topics in schools and colleges. and desk space since 1995. And finally to someone who I I have been a keen member of ASAB since I was a imagine very few people are aware of but to whom I owe a student, and I am looking forward to working closely great deal, viz. Mick Hoult. He has designed not only each with our Education Committee members to bring ani- issue of the newsletter since I started at MMU, and encour- mal behaviour topics into the classroom for the next aged the use of colour, but all our teaching resources too generation of pupils and students. – the Hoult wizardry have made both our newsletter and resources especially eye-catching. Fortunately, he will be It is with great gratitude that we mark the forthcoming carrying on as our designer. retirement of Dr Michael Dockery as ASAB Education Officer after 17 years of dedicated service. In recogni- As you will be aware, Dr Rob Thomas recently became tion of his very important contribution to the work the Secretary of the ASAB Education Committee and of ASAB, in July 2010 he was awarded the prestigious below is a piece from Rob, introducing himself. ASAB medal; one of only sixteen people to have re- ceived this accolade. Michael has been an inspiration to countless students, and his good humour and great experience will be greatly missed. We wish Michael Michael Dockery well in his retirement and hope that he will keep in touch with developments over the coming months My home e-mail address is: [email protected] and I and years. am happy for anyone to use this who wishes to maintain contact with me. Michael’s retirement begins at the end of December, and he is currently ensuring a smooth transition of duties to our new Education Officer, Charlotte Evans, who began her post on December 1st. Charlotte is a Forthcoming Events qualified teacher with strong interests in animal be- haviour. Her first few days in the post involved at- 2011 tending the ASAB Winter Conference at London Zoo, where we ran a stall promoting the wide range of 24 Jan – 4 Feb RSPB School Bird Watch ASAB educational resources to the conference del- egates. We extend a warm welcome to Charlotte and 14 – 21 February BTO National Nestbox Week hope that her time with ASAB will be both enjoyable and fulfilling. 11 – 20 March National Science and Engineering Week As we are both new to our posts, Charlotte and I will value your ideas and feedback on what ASAB can 13 - 20 March National Wildlife Week provide for teachers and students. Please email us at [email protected] – we look forward to hear- 2 April - 2 May National Pet Month ing from you. 27 – 29 April ASAB Easter Meeting, Anglia Ruskin Rob Thomas University, Cambridge 2 Feedback 49 January 2011 NEWS Humble apologies! In the last newsletter I inadvert- server of suspect incoming mail bounced it back to me. So ently attributed two images (Figure 1 and Figure 3 page 39) in future we shall have to refer to the bird, and other mem- in the Advanced Higher Biology exercise to Dr Ullas Kodan- bers of closely related species, by their scientific names: the daramaiah – in fact the two images were provided by Niklas species are listed below, with the apparently offensive word Wahlberg and Adrian Vallin, for which we were very grate- missing of course! ful. I apologise to both. blue – Cyanistes caeruleus coal – Periparus ater On 5 October 2010 John Cheverton died a few days great – Parus major after a severe stroke. John was a teacher at Oakham School crested – Lophophanes cristatus in Rutland for 21 years and had been the Head of the Biol- willow – Poecile montanus ogy Department for many years before taking up a special marsh – Poecile palustris post of Senior Scientist at the school. He was an extremely bearded – Panurus biarmicus courteous and helpful man with a wonderful sense of hu- long-tailed – Aegithalos caudatus mour. He was also an inspirational Biology teacher and was always prepared to share his considerable expertise with colleagues. John had a PhD in behavioural ecology and Two new resources will be available by the time served with distinction on the first ASAB Education Com- you receive this issue of Feedback. By an amazing coinci- mittee and, together with other teachers and academics dence they both look at the behaviour of ants. One is by Dr on the committee, did much of the groundwork that lead Liz Evesham (Mill Hill School, London) which is titled `Inves- to the creation of the post of ASAB Education Officer. He tigations into the behaviour of ants`. Liz provides some gen- also organised one of the first ASAB conferences for Biology eral background details about four common species and teachers which took place at Oakham School and this pro- then suggests both a field and a laboratory investigation vided the model for several others we organised in the next which could be carried out with British ants. The second decade. John will be greatly missed by all who had the good resource `Foraging behaviour of leaf-cutting ants` is by Ri- fortune to know him. We extend our sympathies to Siân, his chard Bottrill (Wilmslow High School, Cheshire). After pro- wife, and their family. viding some background details on leaf-cutting species, the resource focuses on the foraging preferences of leaf-cutting I noticed in our first newsletter in December 1994 that the ants. Sixth form students collect data by observing DVD cost of joining ASAB was £25, which included a film footage of the ants’ behaviour which they will need to copy of the monthly journal Animal Behaviour.
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