No specific answers to Activities 1.1 through 1.5 are provided here because they are highly dependent on the instructor's and students' choices of biomes, the items they bring to class, the field sites they visit, and so on. Here are a few general guidelines, however, as to what students should take away from the activities in Unit 1:

• Students should recognize their multiple connections to the biome they live in and to the environment (ecological and social) more generally.
• Students should demonstrate creativity in their presentations.
• Students should demonstrate that they have consulted a variety of information sources (depending on the objectives of the class, you may for example give extra credit for using the World Wide Web).
• Students should begin to be familiar with the global distribution of biomes and ecoregions.
• Students should begin to see the connections between flora, fauna, climate, hydrology, and other physical characteristics of the earth (soil, geomorphology, geology).