Now that students have identified natural resources within their watershed in Maine: A Natural Resource Rich State and My Paddle to the Sea, they will have the opportunity to explore those resources and the issues and questions scientists, natural resource managers, and resource users are asking. Students may have shown interest in or have identified …
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Maine: A Natural Resource Rich State
Students will work together to create a working definition of “natural resource.” Using their definition, students will look outdoors, online, and at home to identify the natural resources in their area and the entire state of Maine. This activity will create a foundation for the rest of the watershed experience and is referred to in …
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Vital Signs Field Work Skills
Doctors and nurses routinely check “vital signs” (temperature, pulse, blood pressure, breathing, etc.) to get a sense of a person’s health. Similarly, scientists use tools to check an ecosystem’s “vital signs” and assess health. Students practice the Vital Signs Fieldwork Skills that will ultimately help them collect high quality data to determine the health of …
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Self-organize around your interests
Self-organization and choice are two powerful motivational tools that get students excited and personally invested in the learning or investigating they are about to do. Use this process whenever you want students to team up to learn or investigate something in which they are personally interested, invested, and excited.
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