About the author Reen Gibb currently teachers at Brookline High School in Massachusetts, where she has worked for 20 years. Her teaching experience includes secondary and middle school biology, secondary school physics, and college and secondary school chemistry. Ms. Gibb also teaches in the Education Department at Wellesley College and works as an investigator for a Boston University Science Foundation grant that focuses on using the computer as a virtual laboratory in the chemistry classroom. Students use a world map to locate Madagascar, learn about its features, and compare this diverse mini-continent to their own state. Students also study the mouth structures of several carnivores to understand their adaptations.
Students combine their data and as a class make general conclusions and predictions about the site.