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Extractions: Handbook Contents Table of Contents How to use this handbook Print and download Contact us Forums Introduction >List of Chapters Modeling as leaders Getting ready Teacher Inquiry Learning ecology Teacher reflection Teacher Plans Providing Resources On-going support Putting it together >List of Appendices Sample Activities Resources Frameworks The modeling strategies we describe include: Your Leadership Team as a Model Form a Lead Teacher/Lead Ecologist team to run your SYEFEST Institute. You don't have to go it alone! In fact, you probably shouldn't. One of the clearest results of SYEFEST has been the incredible value of the Lead Teacher/Lead Ecologist Partnership. The benefits start with very tangible ones for the teachers participating in SYE Institutes. But, the benefits don't stop there. In fact, one of the most surprising results of SYEFEST was the universal benefit experience by the lead teachers and lead ecologists themselves. They report that the experience of working together to train teachers in schoolyard ecology dramatically altered the way they teach - from all subjects in an elementary classroom to upper level science at the university level.
EDUCATION PLANET - 2560 Web Sites For Human Ecology is crucial to grasping how human activities can degrade in several disciplines ofMarine and Estuarine ecology. Using the Child s Environment To teach at Home http://www.educationplanet.com/search/Science/Biology/Ecology/Human_Ecology
Extractions: All Grades Pre-K K-2 Higher Ed Search 100,000+ top educational sites, lessons and more! Home Science Biology Ecology Human Ecology Subcategories: Population Found Human Ecology ' Web Sites. Also for ' Human Ecology 2676 Lesson Plans 126 Books 10 Software Titles 4 Maps ... 53 Supplies Web Sites (1 - 10 of 2560): Urban Ecology Australia - Urban Ecology Australia is a non-profit organisation working to promote and create ecologically integrated human settlements. An ecological city is a city in balance with nature. Cities are at the centre of nearly all human activity. If we fail to evolve
EDUCATION PLANET - 283 Web Sites For Ecology Using the Child s Environment To teach at Home molluscan evolution, systematics, paleontology,ecology, etc Kids Information about and activities for chemistry http://www.educationplanet.com/search/Science/Biology/Ecology?startval=20
Extractions: Science Curriculum/Activity Manuals (listed alphabetically) A Acid Rain: A Students First Sourcebook by EPA (Describes concepts, definitions, activities and experiments for understanding the impacts of and solutions to acid rain. Activities and experiments for understanding the impacts of and solutions to acid rain. Grades 4-8 Acid Rain Teachers Guide (GEMS) (Covers acids, bases, pH, ecosystems, and the effects of acid rain on plants, animals, and lakes; eight 50-minute sessions) Grades 6-10 by Mick Seller (Easy to make science experiments) Grades 2-9 Amazing Air by Henry Smith (Information experiments on air) Grades 3-8 Animals by Janice VanCleave (Experiments and activities for learning about animals) Grades 2-8 Animal Defenses (GEMS) (Activities for teaching predator-prey interactions and defenses of dinosaurs and animals that live today) Grades Pre-2 Aquatic Exotics by Michigan and Minnesota Sea Grant Extension
Ecology Of The Great Lakes the ability and motivation of educators to teach about Great Lakes ecology. stewardshipbybetter understanding how past human activities have impacted http://wupcenter.mtu.edu/education/Ecology_of_the_Great_lakes/
Extractions: ...Click for Menu... ~~ Home ~~ Light a Fire Quotations How to Add Games Email Book Clubs Book Store Calendar Blog Free Web Content Games Jokes Newsletters Postcards Printables Screensavers Suggest a Site Tell a Friend Top Ten Pages Topic Directory ~~ Search this Site Arts, Crafts, Music Computers, Internet Hobbies, Sports Geography Holidays, History Language Arts Math Parents, Teachers Pre-K and K Science, Animals Link to Us From my Mailbox My Bio Ad Rates Write Me Visit My Office Ecology Games This is a large site that is easy to navigate and full of information about a non-profit co-ed youth organization for 6-18 year olds. The organization focuses on Forestry, Ecology, Outdoor Skills and Leadership. It is family-friendly and has some excellent links. Reviewed December 4, 2001 by S. Kent, a reader from Canada who is affiliated with the site. Reviewed December 13, 2000 by James, a reader from Dublin, Ireland who is affiliated with the site.
Teach Ecology Welcome to the webpage for ecology in the Classroom! Instructor Mary Mulcahy. Linksfor Exercises The Great Fossil Find. Other Evolution activities from ENSI. http://www.pitt.edu/~mnp1/teachecology.htm
Extractions: Home ... Contact Me The University of Pittsburgh recognizes the value and potential of personal publishing on the Internet and so allows and encourages students, staff, and faculty to produce their own personal Web pages; however, the University accepts no responsibility for the content of personal pages.
Biology & Ecology, Www.teach.science www.teach.science, Spring 1998 Science House ecology/ Environmental Sciences, US EPA sExplorers Club has interesting resources and activities for students http://www.ncsu.edu/sciencejunction/terminal/imse/lowres/2/workshops/bioeco.html
Extractions: Science for the Public Sites for Biology and Ecology/Environmental Sciences Biology Digital Learning Center for Microbial Ecology presents the Microbe Zoo , a site for students to explore the connections of microbes with all aspects of life on earth. The Farmer's Bones is an interactive web site (part of the Natural History of Genes) which introduces a lesson in skeletal remains identification. This lesson is appropriate for upper middle and high school students. Approximately 2500 science related web sites which are searchable by category and grade level are available from Frank Potter's Science Gems The Heart: An Online Exploration provides numerous resources to help students learn about the circulatory system. This site, from the Franklin Institute Science Museum, includes movies and sounds associated with different heart problems. Human Anatomy On-line is an interactive site which teaches about human anatomy. This site (from the Insight Reference Series) is appropriate for upper middle and high school.
ECOLOG-L Archives -- December 2001, Week 2 (#26) Please read this message and volunteer to help if you are interested in usingpeerreviewed innovative lecture and lab activities to teach ecology in the http://www.listserv.umd.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0112b&L=ecolog-l&F=&S=&P=3120
Cultural Ecology You will assist in farmer training activities, and teach environmental studies(periodically) to local villagers. ESC has groups in several villages. http://www.cultural-ecology.com/htn-nepal-io.html
Extractions: Buddhist Monastery Just north of the ancient Buddhist town of Boudhanath is Kopan hill, reaching up out of the terraced fields of the Katmandu valley. Dominated by its magnificent Bodhi tree, it was once the home of the astrologer to the king of Nepal. Now, appropriately, Kopan is a thriving monastery of 260 Nepali and Tibetan monks, a place of study for the 150 nuns of nearby Khachoe Ghakyi Ling Nunnery, and a spiritual oasis for hundreds of visitors yearly from around the world. It is also the wellspring of the FPMT, a network of some ninety centres and activities world-wide, themselves expressions of the Buddha activity of Lama Thubten Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche It was to this hill that these lamas first came with their first Western students in 1969. Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave his first public teachings at Kopan in 1971 to a group of twelve Westerners, an intensive one-month introduction to Buddhism that became the model for the meditation courses now held throughout the year at Kopan. Kopan the Monastery The monastery had its beginnings in the Solu Khumbu region of the Himalayan Mountains. In 1971 Lama Zopa, reincarnation of a yogi of the tiny hamlet of Lawudo, fulfilled the promise of the previous Lawudo Lama to start a monastic school for the local children. Rinpoche called it Mount Everest centre.
Turkey Vulture Festival Activities A Kerncrest Audubon Society volunteer will teach about how 10 am 5 pm Children sActivities (Nature Crafts Join Herp-ecology volunteers as they conduct this http://www.valleywild.org/TVfest_activities.htm
Extractions: Valley Wild Festivals TURKEY VULTURE FESTIVAL Turkey Vulture Fest Activities Vulture Facts Registration Form ... Accommodations Official Program 9th Annual Kern River Valley TURKEY VULTURE FESTIVAL A printable, ready to fold pdf version of this program is available here September 2 Festival Headquarters at (Signed entrance on the south side of Hwy. 178, 1.1 miles east of Sierra Way) 18747 Highway 178 Weldon, Kern County, California (Signed entrance on the north side of Hwy. 178 1.1 mile east of Sierra Way), Weldon, Kern County, California. The Kern River Valley Turkey Vulture Festival is an annual celebration of the fall migration of Turkey Vultures. For nearly two months, September 1st through October 20th, up to 30,000 Turkey Vultures have been counted each year for the past 9 years. The vulture count includes only the birds that pass over a single point five miles south of the Kern River Preserve. This Pacific Flyway vulture migration is one of the three largest known in North America. The festival offers many special vulture related activities plus special programs on Astronomy, Birding, Bird Research, Children's Activities, Condors, Kern River Preserve land preservation and restoration, Moths, Raptors, and Reptiles.
Extractions: Source: ERIC Clearinghouse for Science Mathematics and Environmental Education Columbus OH. Using the Child's Environment To Teach at Home and School. ERIC/CSMEE Digest. THIS DIGEST WAS CREATED BY ERIC, THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER. FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT ERIC, CONTACT ACCESS ERIC 1-800-LET-ERIC The world of a child is the tangible, real world of the here and now. It is difficult for children to extend ideas from the small, familiar world in which they operate to the larger, abstract world beyond. Even adults envision distant parts of the world based on their own experiences and prior learning. Nevertheless, the global concepts of environmental education, the basic principles of ecology, and the importance of environmental responsibility can be instilled in a child without reference to faraway places. These ideas can all be made concrete right where the child lives and goes to school. BASIC PRINCIPLES OF ECOLOGY One of the fundamental tenets of ecology is that all activities have by-products. In environmental education, it is understood that this tenet applies to all activities of nature, both natural and human-induced. Some of these by-products are called "pollution." Though pollution tends to have a negative connotation, not all pollution necessarily affects the environment adversely (Botkin and Keller, 1982).
CanTeach: Links: Science - Ecology And Environmentalism 12 education resources, among other things relating to ecology. With fifty pages ofideas and activities, four times Preparing teachers to teach Kids About the http://www.canteach.ca/links/linkecology.html
Extractions: Resources Links Discuss Submit ... Science BC Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks Information on British Columbia's air quality, car emissions, climate change, smoke control, parks, crown land, wildlife, managing waste, land stewardship, protecting habitats, managing pesticides, preventing pollution, water stewardship, water quality, watershed management, water licenses and fisheries. Canadian Endangered Species List of endagered mammals, birds, fish, reptiles and amphibians, and plants in Canada. Composting in Schools Includes: Why Composting? Teacher's Page (lesson plans, activities, teacher forum); Ideas for Student Research Projects; Compost Quiz; Science and Engineering (explaining the science and engineering behind composting; includes experiments); Composting Indoors; Composting Outdoors; Weird and Unusual Composting; and, Frequently Asked Questions. Coral Forest Educational material on coral reefs and their surrounding environment, the threats reefs are facing, and the possible solutions to these threats. Also included are maps showing coral reef regions around the world and a teacher's guides for grades K-5 and grades 6-12. David Suzuki Foundation Information on major issues like climate change, the fisheries, forestry, sustainable development and local action.
The New Haven Ecology Project - Common Ground High School the several weeks of planning time before the ecology Camp begins curriculum allowsthe camp intern to develop and teach their own activities if desired. http://www.nhep.com/Internships.htm
Extractions: Common Ground High School Upcoming Events Weekend Programs 21st Century ... Staff Job Opportunities Internships Newsletters Board of Directors How to Register Contact Us There are two SUMMER 2004 INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITIES at The New Haven Ecology Project 1) Summer Camp Counselor/Environmental Educator Dates: Approximately June 7, 2004 - August 13, 2004 Hours: 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM Compensation: Prefer interns who can arrange fellowships, scholarships, or other funding through their school . Check with your school's financial aid office for federal work study money or other scholarship opportunities. Program Description: The Common Ground Ecology Camp is a five-week program between June 28, 2004 and August 6, 2004 that seeks to introduce and involve elementary and middle school children in the world of natural science, agriculture and environmental issues. This type of program, not replicated anywhere else in the New Haven area, provides a strong educational and recreational outlet for urban youth. Hands-on projects and the exploration of the natural world provide participants with a connection to academics, inspire their interest in the sciences and bridge the gap between the end of the school year and the beginning of the next. There is one one-week session for 6-8 year olds, two two-week sessions for 9-12 year olds and one one-week session for 13 and 14 year olds. Summer 2004 is this programs 12
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Extractions: Donate with PROGRAMS: Community Tour Individual Placements Partner Organizations: AfroReggae Escola da Amazônia Fundação OndAzul Projeto Saúde e Alegria Se Essa Rua Fosse Minha General Conditions Insurance Scheduled Programs Role of the International Volunteer ... Breakdown of Expenses INTERNACIONAL VOLUNTEER PROGRAM Partner Institution: Amazonarium and Cristalino Ecological Foundation Project: Escola da Amazônia - EA (Amazon School) Program: Alta Floresta Objective: Increase the number of beneficiaries and help to implant the Community Branch. Locality: Amazon Area, Alta Floresta - Mato Grosso State Program Detailed Information: Partner Institution and Project Activities that can be done by the volunteers Performance Indicators Group Size ... Free Time The EA is a partnership between Amazonarium and the Cristalino Ecological Foundation - CEF , of Alta Floresta in Mato Grosso State of. The
Winter Ecology PREactivities FOR WINTER ecology PROGRAM. Students will be activating prior knowledgeabout wildlife ecology. Then have the students teach the class what they http://my.athenet.net/~bubolz/pre-act WINTER wildlfe ecology.htm
Extractions: pre-activities Winter Wildlife Ecology INTRODUCTION: Food and cover are fundamental everyday needs of an animal. Fulfillment of these needs becomes critical during the winter months when both or either may be in short supply. A basic need of an animal which is in short supply is known as a limiting factor to that animals survival. Three basic needs are: FOOD must be available in quality and quantity to maintain the animals body heat and energy. Without sufficient food, the animal will be weakened and an easy catch for a predator. It might slowly starve or exposure to extreme cold temperatures might kill it because of its weakened state. COVER is necessary to protect an animal while it is feeding, resting or performing other activities of daily living. Protection from the cold and wind is as important as protection form enemies. Cover can be in the form of snow, trees, shrubs, dead grasses and plants, or structures (both manmade and natural). SPACE contains the essential elements for survival. If an animals space is limited the animal suffers from lack of quantity and quality of food and space for shelter. The animal may also suffer psychological damage. Objectives The students will gain an understanding of what effects the weather has on the animals and plants at the Bubolz Nature Preserve during a Wisconsin winter. In small groups the students will search for signs of wildlife at the Preserve looking primarily for evidence of four target animals squirrels, rabbits, deer, and song birds. The students will also have an opportunity to survey the sedge meadow pond to discover what aquatic organisms are present in the water, (weather permitting).
Extractions: Animals and Insects (Resources - Books) Animal Defenses: How Animals Protect Themselves, Etta Kaner and Pat Stephens , 1999, Kids Can Press, ISBN 1550744216, Students can use this book to explore animal adaptations. Grades 3-5. Creepy Crawlies and the Scientific Method: More than 100 Hands-On science Experiments for Children , Sally Kneidel, 1993, Fulcrum Resources, ISBN 1555911188, Perfect guide to teaching scientific process using the life sciences, Grades K-8. Classroom Critters and the Scientific Method , Sally Kneidel, 1999, Fulcrum Resources, ISBN 1555919693, Useful for working with animals in the classroom, offers detailed how-to information for grades 3-8. Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of eating Insects Mosquitoes in the Classroom: Teacher Resource Guide and Classroom Curriculum Tiger Math: Learning to Graph from a Baby Tiger , Ann Whitehead Nagda and Cindy Bickel, 2000, Henry Holt, ISBN 0805062483, Students can follow care of tiger and learn math skills.
