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SCIENCE AND TECH FRONTLINE World: Rough Cut: Panama: The Last Medicine Woman Video Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12 Meet one of the last traditional medicine women in Panama, a Kuna Indian who prescribes plants for patients who come to see her with problems, and compare her work with the Smithsonian's search for medicines among the same plants. http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/rough/2007/03/panama_the_last.html ZOOM: Science rocks: Coloring Flowers Activity Grade Range: PreK, K-2, 3-5 Turn white carnations green for St. Patrick's Day or experiment with a variety of colors while learning how flowers get the water they need. http://pbskids.org/zoom/activities/sci/coloringflowers.html NOVAscienceNow: Mass Extinction Video and Lesson Plan Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12 Travel back in time and geology to discover how ancient volcanoes may have been the cause of mass extinction during the Permian period. http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/oer09.sci.life.evo.massextinct/
SCIENCE AND TECH
FRONTLINE World: Rough Cut: Panama: The Last Medicine Woman
Video
Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12
Meet one of the last traditional medicine women in Panama, a Kuna Indian who prescribes plants for patients who come to see her with problems, and compare her work with the Smithsonian's search for medicines among the same plants.
http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/rough/2007/03/panama_the_last.html
ZOOM: Science rocks: Coloring Flowers
Activity
Grade Range: PreK, K-2, 3-5
Turn white carnations green for St. Patrick's Day or experiment with a variety of colors while learning how flowers get the water they need.
http://pbskids.org/zoom/activities/sci/coloringflowers.html
NOVAscienceNow: Mass Extinction
Video and Lesson Plan
Grade Range: 6-8, 9-12
Travel back in time and geology to discover how ancient volcanoes may have been the cause of mass extinction during the Permian period.
http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/oer09.sci.life.evo.massextinct/
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