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Bottle Biology

Take a look at this website. It offers some different ideas on how students can observe their bottles. It does a good job of inventory!
http://www.learner.org/channel/courses/essential/life/bottlebio/ecocol/takinginventory.html

Goldfish Learning Centers

1: Observation Station
2: Draw and Label
3. Scientific Method Station
4. Goldfish Behavior Station
5. Graphing Station on Computer
6. Science Collection Overview iMovie (Each generate 3 Questions about Project)

Technology Integration

Introductions: Multi media presentation
Schoolyard Ecology: Image Gallery Presentation
Bottle Biology Project: Excel Graphs of Student Data/CPS Quiz
Owl Pellet Project: Using technology (inspiration) to create food web diagrams.
Owl Pellet Project: Research for bone reconstruction on skeletal structure of small mammal

School Yard Ecology

http://www.ecostudies.org/syefest/

This is an awesome site about schoolyard ecology programs. I'm going to print it tomorrow and take a look at it. This might be a great way to have outdoor learning centers for the kids.

Inverted Month Calendar

June- Science Apprentice
May- Changes in Matter
April- Properties of Matter
March- Light/Energy/Waves
February- Earth in Space and Time
January-Solid Earth
December-Catch Up and Rainforest Researchers Project
November- Ecology II
September/October- Ecology

Ecology Unit Overview

These are our initial brain storms from our last meeting:

Ecology:
School Yard Ecology
Food Web Project
Bottle Biology (Change objectives and align to standards)

Owl Pellet
Bottle Biology- Source of Food Emphasis
Decomposer Station
Pond Succession

Great Lakes Succession:
Debate about water resources:
Dune Day

Great Lakes Instruction Manuals

I've ordered the four manuals we will need for our Great Lakes Ecology Unit. There is a procedure we need to follow for purchase orders....It is very easy though..:)

General Ecology Week Three

Ted, what do you think? Owl Pellet Week???
Bottle Biology Lab Reports Due this week....

Also, we can blend a couple powerpoint lectures in there if you want to suggest some of the better ones.
HEre we go bob...
Monday: Bottle Biology Construction II
Tuesday: Bottle Biology Demonstrations and Review
Wed: (Hand In Bottle Bio Lab Report) Owl Pellet Introduction and Dissection.
Thursday: Owl pellet Dissection and reconstruction. (Computers available for research on bone type)
Friday: Reconstruction and Food Web Creation. (Food Web using inspiration on computers.)

General Ecology Week Two (proposal)

Monday (9-8) School Yard Ecology (Slide Show with Pictures and outside)
Tuesday (9-9) School Yard Ecology (Outside and wrap up)
Wed (9-10) Bottle Biology Examples and Learning Objective Overview (KWL??? Powerpoint on Basic Ecology concepts.)
THursday (9-11) Bottle Biology Packet Overview
Friday (9-12) Bottle Biology Construction I


KWL Sheet?
Print Packets off Before School Starts
Slide show of interactions and examples???

CPS quiz throughout week to review objectives right away....

Great Lakes Ecology

I found 5 books for $40 that cover all aspects of teaching Great Lakes Ecology. The books are teaching manuals. I think I'm going to order them and that will take care of a lot of our need for resources. What do you think? This would allow us to thumb through and pick and choose a few general lessons for our GLE unit.

Shed Aquarium Site

Interesting Link that I found...I heard it on the radio today. Its called listen to your lakes.org. The address goes to this link: http://sheddaquarium.org/greatlakes/index.html

General Ecology Week One

Bob,
Lets give this a try for writing our lesson plans (general description)...or at least of the first couple of weeks.
September 3-5.
Wednesday: Introductions of ourselves and student profile sheets/questionnaires.
Thursday: Gold Fish Lab (Day one of stations)
Friday: Goldfish Lab (Science Inquiry Lab) Graphing with classroom computers. Day 2 of stations.

(I will throw the standards for these lessons in tomorrow)

This could be a possible center???

http://wupcenter.mtu.edu/education/great_lakes_maritime/2007/Lessons/Invasive_Species_Lisa_Bircher.pdf

Great Lakes Ecology

http://www.great-lakes.net/teach/

Hey Ted.
Check out this website. It has a ton of stuff. I'm billing an hour for finding it and going through some of the material. Click on the teachers corner and look through the programs. The big question is which ones do we want. They come from all different places so we may want to pick one supplier and call and order all of our stuff from them to keep it simple.

Basic Ecology

Just a post trial and just a note that basic ecology page is started.
I am going to try the atom feed and see how that works as well...
Cheers!
Ted