2022 March Mammal Madness Tournament materials

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This item includes:

1) The official bracket files for the 2022 MMM tournament

2) A screen-reader enabled bracket file

3) 2022 March Mammal Madness Educational Materials Packet – in English

4) 2022 March Mammal Madness Educational Materials Packet – in Spanish

5) March Mammal Madness,

This item includes:

1) The official bracket files for the 2022 MMM tournament

2) A screen-reader enabled bracket file

3) 2022 March Mammal Madness Educational Materials Packet – in English

4) 2022 March Mammal Madness Educational Materials Packet – in Spanish

5) March Mammal Madness, Middle School Lesson Plan : Ecosystems & National Parks

6) March Mammal Madness, High School Lesson Plan : Ecosystems & National Parks 

Date Created
2022
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Sports-Style Summaries of Species Encounters in March Mammal Madness 2018-2021

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Since 2018, MMM team members have written sport-style summaries following the live "play-by-play" narration of simulated combatant encounters on social media. These summaries, highlighting key adaptations, human impacts, and other scholarly information, have been provided to educators to describe tournament

Since 2018, MMM team members have written sport-style summaries following the live "play-by-play" narration of simulated combatant encounters on social media. These summaries, highlighting key adaptations, human impacts, and other scholarly information, have been provided to educators to describe tournament outcomes to their learners who do not follow the battle narrations "live" on social media.

Date Created
2022
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Effects of Early Life Experiences on Development and Adult Outcomes in Wild Olive Baboons

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Exposure to social and ecological adversity during sensitive windows of development often leadto disadvantageous outcomes in adulthood such as reduced social connectedness and shorter lifespan. Consequences of early life adversity can persist across generations. The mother is a crucial component

Exposure to social and ecological adversity during sensitive windows of development often leadto disadvantageous outcomes in adulthood such as reduced social connectedness and shorter lifespan. Consequences of early life adversity can persist across generations. The mother is a crucial component of the early life environment for mammals and plays an important role in shaping offspring development. The mechanisms underlying the associations between early life adversity, adult outcomes, and transgenerational effects are not well established, and the complexities of how early life environments shape the ways offspring prioritize different dimensions of development are only beginning to be understood. This dissertation leverages longitudinal data, detailed behavioral observations, fecal hormone sampling, and noninvasive estimates of infant body size to assess how early life experiences shape development and adult outcomes in a wild population of olive baboons (Papio anubis) in Laikipia, Kenya. Four dissertation papers address: 1) the relationship between a mother’s early life adversity and her maternal effort, physiology, and offspring survival; 2) how the maternal environment shapes the ways developing offspring allocate resources among play, behavioral independence, and growth; 3) the role of interaction style in mediating the relationship between early life adversity and adult female sociability; and 4) the relative importance of female competition over food, mates, and male caretakers. Results of these papers show early life adversity can have lasting consequences on maternal effort and physiology, which in turn shape offspring developmental trajectories. Females who experienced early life adversity were less likely to develop an interaction style that was associated with sociability. Finally, the energetic costs of lactation were the primary driver of female competition, and in light of findings in chacma and yellow baboons, this indicates evolution has finely tuned female baboons’ responses to the social and ecological pressures of their local environments. To better understand the complexities of early life experiences and developmental trajectories, it is important to leverage longitudinal data and create comprehensive models of the maternal environment and infant development.
Date Created
2021
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Integrative Approaches to Dispersing Science: A Case Study of March Mammal Madness

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Public engagement is increasingly viewed as an important pillar of scientific scholarship. For early career and established scholars, however, navigating the mosaic landscape of public education and science communication, noted for rapid “ecological” succession, can be daunting. Moreover, academics are

Public engagement is increasingly viewed as an important pillar of scientific scholarship. For early career and established scholars, however, navigating the mosaic landscape of public education and science communication, noted for rapid “ecological” succession, can be daunting. Moreover, academics are characterized by diverse skills, motivations, values, positionalities, and temperaments that may differentially incline individuals to particular public translation activities.

Date Created
2021
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2021 March Mammal Madness Educational Materials

2021 March Mammal Madness Educational Materials
Description

This packet includes:

 2021 Bracket Common Name 

2021 Bracket Latin Binomial 

Bracket FAQ (English) 

Pre-Tournament Research Lesson Plan (English) 

Tournament Lesson Plan & Worksheets (English) 

Visual Arts Lesson Plan (English) 

Language Arts Lesson Plan (English) 

Guide for Youngest Players (English)

JUMBO Bracket for Youngest Players (English)

2021 Bracket Common Name

This packet includes:

 2021 Bracket Common Name 

2021 Bracket Latin Binomial 

Bracket FAQ (English) 

Pre-Tournament Research Lesson Plan (English) 

Tournament Lesson Plan & Worksheets (English) 

Visual Arts Lesson Plan (English) 

Language Arts Lesson Plan (English) 

Guide for Youngest Players (English)

JUMBO Bracket for Youngest Players (English)

2021 Bracket Common Name (Spanish) 

Pre-Tournament Research Lesson Plan (Spanish) 

Tournament Lesson Plan & Worksheets (Spanish) 

Visual Arts Lesson Plan (Spanish)

Language Arts Lesson Plan (Spanish) 

JUMBO Bracket for Youngest Players (Spanish) 

Date Created
2021-02
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March Mammal Madness and the power of narrative in science outreach

Education and Outreach: March Mammal Madness and the power of narrative in science outreach
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March Mammal Madness is a science outreach project that, over the course of several weeks in March, reaches hundreds of thousands of people in the United States every year. We combine four approaches to science outreach – gamification, social media

March Mammal Madness is a science outreach project that, over the course of several weeks in March, reaches hundreds of thousands of people in the United States every year. We combine four approaches to science outreach – gamification, social media platforms, community event(s), and creative products – to run a simulated tournament in which 64 animals compete to become the tournament champion. While the encounters between the animals are hypothetical, the outcomes rely on empirical evidence from the scientific literature. Players select their favored combatants beforehand, and during the tournament scientists translate the academic literature into gripping “play-by-play” narration on social media. To date ~1100 scholarly works, covering almost 400 taxa, have been transformed into science stories. March Mammal Madness is most typically used by high-school educators teaching life sciences, and we estimate that our materials reached ~1% of high-school students in the United States in 2019. Here we document the intentional design, public engagement, and magnitude of reach of the project. We further explain how human psychological and cognitive adaptations for shared experiences, social learning, narrative, and imagery contribute to the widespread use of March Mammal Madness.

Date Created
2021-02-22
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2020 March Mammal Madness Educational Materials

Open Educational Resources from 2020 March Mammal Madness Tournament
Description

This packet includes:

2020 Bracket Common Name

2020 Bracket Latin Binomial

Pre-Tournament Research Lesson Plan (English)

Tournament Lesson Plan & Worksheets (English)

Visual Arts Lesson Plan (English)

Language Arts Lesson Plan (English)

2020 Bracket Common Name (Spanish)

Pre-Tournament Research Lesson Plan (Spanish)

Tournament Lesson Plan & Worksheets (Spanish)

Date Created
2020
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