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Ecosystems
One 60-minute staff development program
Eight 30-minute student programs for grades 4-6
The staff development program provides the basis of the content, teaching
methods and procedures used in the student telecasts. Key concepts, strategies,
and outcomes for the Ecosystems module are reviewed. Teachers become
familiar with the materials and organisms essential to the activities.
Tip for setting up and maintaining the classroom aquarium environments
are presented.
This program series
provides students with the opportunity to investigate ecosystems
with an emphasis on human impact on the environment. Students
investigate systems and interactions as they explore predator-prey
relationships, energy transfer in ecosystems, energy resources,
habitat and pollution.
Fast Plants
One 60-minute staff development program
Eight 60-minute student programs for grades 4-6
An overview of the module is presented in the staff development program including
kit materials and use, information specific to the set up, and the growth
and maintenance of Wisconsin Fast Plants™. Teaching strategies emphasize
question posing and experimental design.
In the student programs,
students use Fast Plants to explore the growth and development
of a flowering plant through its entire life cycle. As the
Fast Plants develop, the students design and conduct experiments.
When flowers appear, students pollinate them with "beesticks" and
then observe as the plants complete their life cycle and produce
seeds. The content includes: Planting Fast Plants, Seeds & Germination,
What If?….., Experimental Design, Pollination, Variation & Diversity,
Life Cycles and Assessment & Investigation.
Life Cycles
One 60-minute staff development program
Five 30-minute student programs grades 2-3
The staff development program introduces teachers to the Life Cycle module.
Student activities and effective teaching strategies are reviewed. Life
Cycles is designed for primary students and explores and compares the
life cycles of several plants and animals.
In the student programs,
students observe and compare caterpillars and mealworms and
then observe how they progress through metamorphosis during
the student programs. Rapid-cycling Wisconsin Fast Plants™ are
grown providing hands-on experience with a plant‘s entire
life cycle. Observing and comparing plant and animal life cycles
first hand provides students with an excellent opportunity
to observe, compare, discuss, describe sequence, and make predictions
based on data. Language and communication are emphasized. The
content includes: plants & seeds, mealworms & caterpillars,
growth & development, life cycles and making comparisons.
Reading
Basic to Success K-3 | Teaching
Writing, K-3 | Windows On My World
4-7
Algebra Grades 1-8 | Geometry
Grades 1-8 | Number Grades 1-8
Physical Science | Earth
Science | Life Science
History | Geography
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