You can subscribe to this newsletter for updates each week about what is on PBS and how it connects in your classroom. Here is a blurb from the science/tech section:
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/
Using best practices from Community Problem Solving (CmPS) instructional methods, EcoInvestigators is designed to get students in grades 3-5 engaged, excited, and prepared to take on and solve environmental problems in their community and beyond. With funding from International Paper, we have developed this program to help teachers use a variety of rich media resources to teach earth system science, explore global environmental problems and challenge your students to take steps to using data to help solve local environmental problems.
This curriculum is in the beta phase and PBS welcomes feedback on the resources and activities provided on the site. http://www.pbs.org/teachers/ecoinvestigators/. If you have suggestions or comments, please send them to djblubaugh@pbs.org.
The ones that we are out of and are not online are: 1- Wonderful, Wacky Water Critters 2- Prairie Wildlife Poster (this is in the process of being reprinted)
Also, there are a couple things that we have that aren't on the Education Connection order form that I added to your order: 1- Mississippi watershed poster 2- Groundwater poster
This web site (sponsored by a text-book company) provides links to a variety of resources about teaching methods and science sites. - Click on Science to go directly to those links.
This collection is meant to be utilized by teachers state-wide. Resources (activity guides, picture books, trade books, videos) can be checked out through a simple request and sent to teachers through the South Central Library System. Books are checked out for a month but are very easy to renew. Resources for all ages.
EEK! is managed by the Wisconsin DNR and supports mostly environmental education and some life and environmental science. The site is an environmental education resource for elementary and middle-school students. Content is written in an accessible format for students and is available in both English and Spanish. This resource could be used to integrate math (population, size), social studies/geography (mapping) and reading.
This resource supports all areas of science and environmental education. ECB is a state agency that supports technology in the classroom. Staff, mostly former teachers, put together "Surf Reports" which are collections of effective web sites on different subject areas. Climate Wisconsin is a new project with short (4 min) videos sharing stories of life in Wisconsin tied to our natural resources. It allows middle and high school students to stop and think "what would happen if the climate changed?" WiStem.org provides a link to another ECB web site that supports Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.
Free video streaming, lesson plans, and other resources from ECB and PBS. Use this web site to find video resources and lessons to support your big ideas. For all grade levels and all science strands.
I am an educator, first and foremost, but I currently work for the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction as the Environmental Education Consultant for the State. I was the founding teacher of River Crossing Environmental Charter School in Portage, Wisconsin.