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Unicellular Fungi
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Wenatchee, WA
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Here are the results of a wildlife survey taken in an indoor YMCA game room setting. The ages were diverse, 1st - 8th, and that is why there is a second figure. It was a simple and fun survey to do. It was an oral survey but could be done written. The answers were good, bad, both, and neither, and this allowed children to process their values on terms they could understand. It also allowed them to differentiate between an animal that they thought was truly bad/good and one that they thought had both qualities, such as a bee that might sting you but also pollinates plants.
The information was then used to plan activities in a science room. For instance, bats were given their own lesson plan because so many children thought bats were bad. I used videos from ARKive (AWESOME resource) and and art project. Anyway, just sharing as it might be something that educators here might want to reproduce or tweak for their own needs. |
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
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What a great service you are doing. Did you already do the follow-up activities or are they still in the planning stages?
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Wisconsin
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Interesting that the mean of values did not change much as children got older. Disappointing in a way; I would have expected that increased knowledge would create a greater appreciation of the value of animals. I would also have expected the 'neither' and 'both' categories to increase with age.
Clearly I don't know anything about kids!
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
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~smile~ From one thing that I read a while back, students (or people in general?) don't give up misconceptions easily.
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Unicellular Fungi
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Wenatchee, WA
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By just exposing the kids to the ARKive video of the cute white bats that live under leaves, and video of other species catching mosquitoes, their attitudes started to shift. Also, they heard me tell them how important and awesome bats are - something they had never heard before. Hard to say though the long term attitude shift though if they then hear only negative stuff about them or a only hear a general disregard for nature. |
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Unicellular Fungi
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Wenatchee, WA
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WG Hospitality & UAOKA recipient
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
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And I'm sure the experience had a great impact on you as we'll. keep up the good work. ![]() Quote:
By the way, growing up I always liked ladybugs (I miss the two-spotted ones I grew up seeing). I never though of them as biting, but I think I have been bit as an adult by the many spotted Asian ladybugs that infiltrate the house it the winter. I'm just wondering if they really do bite--even though that doesn't make them bad.
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Heron
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: c. Mississippi
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Its nice to see folks engaging youngsters in outreach activities. Even though I work for a wildlife research org, I participate in outreach activities 3x a year or so. One of my favorite is the Starkville Science Club; a science based outreach program for 5th and 6th graders. I always do bird necropsies with them. Their favorite part is to cut open the stomach to see what they eat!
Maybe it's been posted on WG before, but have any of you read "Last CHild in the Woods" by Richard Louv? |
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Official Plant Nerd
Join Date: Dec 2008
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You done good River!!! What else ya got up your sleeve?
![]() -- kchd> I read it..... so have others.... Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder (Louv)
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