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Educator Innovations in Use - ID Video & Quiz Tutorials

7/16/2020

by Stephen Bucklin, Environmental Educator
Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy

Responding to the COVID-19 situation Stephen and his colleagues at the Pittsburgh Parks Conversancy are creating materials for remote engagement and learning about urban streams and ecosytstems. Here are some of the materials they are creating, like a stream food webs activity to publish on the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy website for students and teachers to use.

This video outlines the Macorinvertebrates.org quiz feature and encourages students to draw each organism and observe their features before using the ID key to identify them.

This video highlights the ID key and walks students through how to use it to identify living organisms and then highlights the Ephemeroptera page. (featured at ~11:03)

We also created a zoomable Stream food web diagram with high resolution images from the site with an associated Ecosystems Investigator worksheet

Educator's Innovations in Use — Drawing to Notice & Learn

7/16/2020

By Carol Fischer, Weave Lake Elementary School

Weaver Lake Elementary a STEM school in Maple Grove, Minnesota is using the Macroinvertebrates.org web as part of their course curriculum. The school is located near a lake adjacent and for our value added project, we study the macros that live in our lake. We also take the temperature, clarity readings as well as the pH. Not only do they identify macros, they draw them referencing Macroinvertebrates.org photographs, and then they make a clay creation of a macro they have designed. Then we write a science fiction story about their macroinvertebrates."

In November we have a STEM in Action night for our parents to come and see what our students are doing.

—Carol Fischer, STEM Teacher
Grade 4

Drawing to Notice - 4th Graders Illustration

Educator Innovations in Use - ID Video & Quiz Tutorials

Educator's Innovations in Use — Drawing to Notice & Learn

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