"Exploring Natural History" funded

The Animal Diversity Web received funding from the National Science Foundation's Course Curriculum and Lab Improvement program to develop, implement, and assess the use of our structured query tool for inquiry learning in a variety of undergraduate courses. This structured query tool permits complex queries to extract ADW natural history data, which can then be used to directly test hypotheses in organismal biology. The structured query tool, and exercises designed for it, will be tested in 5 undergraduate institutions in Fall 2007.