Standard+F+Life+and+Environmental+Science


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Racine Zoo -[|Racine Zoo Educational Programs] The RacineZoo offers a variety of educational programs, many of which can be taught either at the zoo, or in your school. The website describes each of the programs,as well as the appropriate age groups, which range from PreK to Middle School. A large number of the standards could be easily touched upon within one visit. - Krista
 * Standard F – Life and EnvironmentalScience **
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Standard F - Life and Environmental Science Wild Nature Survivor Guy [] This is a sesame street episode about a crazy nature survivor guy who pretends to be in the wild while on Sesame Street and tries to find ways to survive from nature. This episode features Elmo and is a fun way to help students learn about nature and how it provides for us. Grades K-1 (Heidi)

[|Zoo's All over!] This website also speaks about Zoo's. I stole this idea from Krista, but decided to look at what the milwaukee county zoo offers. It has the rates and contact information on this website for your students. I chose to use this because I will be in the Waukesha/Milwaukee area for student teaching and *hopefully* long-term teaching. There are great reviews and explanations of what can be used at the zoo. It would depend on what you wanted to do at the zoo, as to what age level I would recommend. With the Pre-K-4, they have opportunities to simply listen to workers and go on guided tours. With the older grades 5-8, I would assign chaperones and have the students engaged in an inquiry based research project that would challenge them to research a specific type of animal of their choice. -ADAM

Strand F-Life and Enviornmental Science [|Identifying Bones] This primary grade level website was very cool and interactive. Itgives you opportunities to identify bones, life cycles, health eating, habitats,food chains and plants. It’s nice to have this on a computer and it’s free particularlyif there is not a lab available or your district cannot provide you with thesetypes of things. This is an easy way to get kids engaged and see what theirprior knowledge is. ~Abbie

Strand F—Life and Environmental Science Science Clips: Life Cycles from BBC.com. Grades 4-5. [|Life Cycles: Plant] This is an interactive activity where students areasked to “take apart” a flower or plant and then match the piece they havetaken to the name, and then asks them to put the plant back togetheragain. Very good for learning the partsof plants, not just the names, but where they go or belong on the plant. They only thing I don’t like is that is doesnot tell what they parts of the plant do, but that could always be another,follow up lesson once the students know the parts.--Janielle

“Growing Plants” [] This is a simple, interactive activity that shows young learners how plants require consistent water in order to grow. This online resource could be used on the SmartBoard as an engagement strategy or a quick closing activity for a lesson about plants. Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten (Amber Unger)
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[] FOSS Web is a site that explains the steps teachers will use as they progress through the Foss Science curriculum. By clicking on a particular module, one can view an interactive web-based activity, Ask A Scientist, teacher resources, and other incredible options. The unit above focuses on plants and animals. I really like the Ask A Scientist section because it helps students get used to asking questions and many of the questions lend themselves to further investigation opportunities. (Christina)
 * Strand F--Life and Environmental Science**
 * Module: Plants and Animals**
 * Grades: K-2**

Meat Eating Plants: 3rd - 6th grade [] - This site talks -about non-standard plants that get their food from alternative sources. Kids tend to find plants like the venus flytrap fascinating because they are so different from other plants. This site would be a great jumping off point for a whole class project where the room adopts a venus flytrap as a pet which they’ll care for based on all the information they can find about it. It will illustrate the differences between plants, animals, and semi-inbetweeners.
 * Mark** says:

Standard F – Life and Environmental Science Oh Say Can You Seed – K-3 []

This book talks about seeds and what they become. It introduces a bean seed, the parts of the seed, how to sprout it, the parts of a bean plant, how it makes its own food, and also explores parts of a flower. This book also has a glossary of new terms used in the book as well as resources for further reading. -Nicole