March Mammal Madness
March Mammal Madness is an annual scientific outreach tournament consisting of simulated combat competition among animals, informed by scientific literature and communicated through creative storytelling and art. This collection consists of related publications, presentation, and educational materials. Accompanying data is available in the March Mammal Madness Data Collection, and official tournament information at the March Mammal Madness Library Guide.
Image attribution: (A) cheetah by Charon Henning; (B) Tag Team Mutualists warthog and mongoose by Mary Casillas; (C) Thylacine by Olivia Pellicer; (D) red squirrel by Charon Henning; (E) honey badger by Charon Henning; (F) moose by Valeria Pellicer; (G) spotted hyena by Charon Henning; (H) coyote by Mary Cassilas; (I) Andrewsarchus mongoliensis by Charon Henning.
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- All Subjects: Animal ecology
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)
This packet includes:
2019 Bracket
Pre-Tournament Research Lesson Plan (English)
Tournament Lesson Plan & Worksheets (English)
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)
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.