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Rainforest CLASSROOM
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Inspire your students with the instrucational resources.
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By encouraging students' wonder and recording their "I Wonder" questions, teachers can view those questions holistically and use them to develop lessons and projects that will harness student curiosity.
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WondWorking in the field always makes research more challenging, and doing atmospheric science deep in the rainforest is especially tricky. Ben Langford describes how mosquito repellent, gaffer tape and children's balloons helped keep his project on track.
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Wonderful feature on the rewards and challenges of taking science out of the lab into the field. Great teaching resource for science career lesson!
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There are a lot of great tools out there that have more than one use. One of my favorite tools is Google's Tour Builder, a Google Maps infused interface that allows the user to create tours. But di... Via Beth Dichter, JoAnn Delaney
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This would be a fantastic tool for our educators to use to create a video tour of their Amazon experience!
Beth Dichter's curator insight,
February 14, 2014 10:15 PM
Have you explored Tour Builder (from Google)? Evan Scherr states "Tour Builder gives students an interactive way to present their learning in a way that is a lot more engaging than a PowerPoint or Prezi presentation." This post provides four on how you might use Tour Builder in your classroom, as well as an example that you may check out. These examples include * Creating a multimedia letter based on historical events (or perhaps a book) * Using Google Trends and Google Maps. The suggestions here is to look at a trend based on a specific word and find out where it is is popular and is not popular and explore the reasons for this. * Exploring a favorite city, where each student adds their city to the map * Use it to have students create Lit Trips In addition to these suggestions he includes additional ones in other academic areas and shares the many types of multimedia that may be integrated into a Google Tour. 
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February 18, 2014 2:14 AM
Taking presentations to the next level!!! #21stCenturyClassroom |
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Find information, strategies, protocols, and tools -- including resources and downloads from teachers and schools – to promote curiosity and engage students in asking questions, thinking critically, and solving problems.
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Forget white coats and sterile laboratories, many scientists have a deep, personal relationship with the natural environments that become their subject matter.
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Help throw off the stereotype of scientists and share these great images with your students as alternatives!
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How to wrangle Orchid Bees in the Amazon Rainforest
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Science in the rainforest? YOU BET!
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