PS3 2006 Summer Institute Classroom Applications
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	Classroom Applications Explored During the Ecology Summer Institute Ecological Footprint web activity to consider personal choices (go to http://www.earthday.net/)
	Climate Change Calculator: web activity to tabulate CO2 generation (go to http://www.americanforests.org/resources/ccc/)
	Seasonal Partners to select partners throughout week
	Group whiteboarding as informal assessment/modeling thinking (see white board web page)
	Word Wall
	Post individual/group data on class chart
	Science Notebooks
	Create Working Definitions
	Ecosystem Card Sort
	Field Plot Activity
	Assessment Probes (see Ecology Institute Homepage)
	Lego photosynthesis
	Powerpoint photo show of student activities
	CO2 production web exercise
	Carbon Cycle cartoon strip
	Gallery walk to share cartoon strips
	"Before" paragraphs
	Energy in food - burning cheetos, for an example lab see http://www.iscienceproject.com/labs/pdf_labs/High_School/Chemistry_Labs/FLAMIN_FRITOS.pdf
	Food producers experiment
	Scientific writing (claim and evidence)
	Root beer trophic levels (see http://www.usoe.k12.ut.us/curr/science/sciber00/8th/energy/sciber/ecosys.htm)
	Bead activity (trophic levels)
	Oh deer game (limiting factors)
	Migration headache (limiting factors)
	Biomagnification demonstration (jackets)
	Water down the river demonstration (examples of pollutants added to the river)
	Owl pellets (places to order include http://www.pellet.com/, https://www2.carolina.com/, http://www.enasco.com/)
	Car tailpipe exploration (similar actitivy is found at http://www.pbs.org/strangedays/educators/ag_odf_sources.html)
	Water usage analysis
	Food consumption analysis for consumer levels
Last Updated: July 1, 2006