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Comment on A Picture of Health: Ecosystem Health Continuum by Allen Jerome

Allen Jerome — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 04:17:24 +0000

Very interesting discussion. I am an aerospace engineer working on fuel combustion. So far fuel efficiency with no consideration to the environmental impact of the fuel used to be the prime concern in our research. The department of environmental engineering used to do separate research to control pollution. Last year we took an initiative to do combined research with environmental engineering department to do research on increasing fuel efficiency having environmental impact as a consideration.

Comment on Community Connections to a Maine Watershed by cledlorrorb

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Comment on Oh Deer: Resource needs of plants & animals by Susan

Susan — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:33:32 +0000

One suggestion to prevent kids from “cheating” and switching their resource symbols is to make dying fun. Let the students get animated with their deaths. And help them make the connection between death and becoming a resource for the next round.

You can also add your own scenarios: there is no water for one round or everyone is water. Mark this information down on your tally sheet and ask the students what happened to the populations these rounds and why.

Comment on Get to Know Your Watershed by Susan

Susan — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:16:44 +0000

Another great way to show the connection between contour lines and elevation is to make a fist and draw lines on your hand connecting elevations around your hand and knuckles. (You’ll end up with 4 mountains for each knuckle) Then when you flatten your hand, you’ll have a topographic map of your hand.

Comment on Connect the Species by Sue Kistenmacher

Sue Kistenmacher — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 17:24:17 +0000

I like the activity- “connect the species”!

Here is an extension idea: A Council of Beings- each student adopts or becomes an organism in the watershed, learns all about it, its habitat, life cycle, interactions,needs, etc.(Species Investigation)
Then on Council day, they present a poster with a picture they have drawn, tracks, facts, anything to help prompt their presentation to the group, plus they dress in (homemade) costume of the organism (not elaborate, just whatever they can cobble together from stuff at home).
(I got this idea from Cloe Chunn)

Comment on Be a Watershed by meredyth

meredyth — Tue, 17 May 2011 22:20:35 +0000

I love how this activity gets kids up and moving. Its a great start to this watershed experience and so many other lessons too.

Comment on Ecosystem Health: Checking the Vital Signs of a Maine Watershed by Taylor

Taylor — Tue, 17 May 2011 12:51:40 +0000

After reading through many of the watershed experiences I came across Ecosystem Health. I think this is a perfect way to keep checking vital signs all over Maine. Every community around the state is different with their own watershed structures and issues. Getting students out in their local communities and exploring whats in their backyards is a great way for students to gain respect and a sense of town pride. Growing up as a kid in Maine I found much of my own passion for the outdoors just searching through my backyard and local watershed features. Teachers should take advantage of whats outside the classroom and know that their students can really make a difference in improving the overall health of local ecosystems.

Comment on Oh Deer: Resource needs of plants & animals by Christine

Christine — Mon, 16 May 2011 19:30:33 +0000

I like this activity because it reminds us that we can learn through games and play. I also like that at the end of the activity you reflect and make meaning through graphing. What a nice balance of too cool for school (playing a game) and so school it’s cool (graphing!).

Comment on My Watershed Habitats by Andy

Andy — Mon, 16 May 2011 19:22:37 +0000

I think this is a very valuable activity because it gives students relatively unstructured time to explore outside and see what they can notice. Often we feel as educators that we need to justify allowing students to be out of the classroom by giving them very structured activities and assignments. It is also really important, however, that students of all ages be given time to sit and think and explore without detailed assignments. Maybe tools like magnifying glasses could help enhance the students’ observation and engagement.

Comment on We’re Going on a Species Hunt by sarah

sarah — Mon, 16 May 2011 19:16:24 +0000

Great idea to give the students the task of figuring out how to figure out how do the research!

When the investigation is complete, I would think it would be really important to reflect on two things: what lives here and why, and how well did our plan work. Some plans that didn’t work in one habitat might work really well in another, and some that work really well in one habitat might not work at all in another.

It might even be fun to have two groups of students with two different ideas of how to collect the data in one habitat both get to use their ideas and then reflect on their data. Which method worked better for what species?

Sounds fun and provocative!