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Conservation Tales eLearning Corner
- 4th grade
- science
The Conservation Tales project created the eLearning Corner to support teachers during the COVID pandemic. This collection includes activities that can help teachers and students practice inquiry-based science from home. The collection includes links to web sites and downloadable activities for doing science at home.
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Earn Your Stripes!
- 4th grade
- science
Researchers and conservationists who study tigers use specific parts of tigers to use the unique pattern of stripes on each animal to identify individuals. In this web activity, you can learn what features these scientists look for. You can use this to create your own notes about tigers at your favorite zoo or animal sanctuary to help you identify them, too!
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Elephant-Friendly Shopping
- 6th grade
- science
One of the threats to the survival of elephants in the wild is the conflicts between farmers and elephants who damage farm fields, orchards and vegetable gardens. To reduce this conflict, conservationists are trying to promote multi-crop farming to reduce the space needed, and strategies to repel or keep out elephants using safe, natural methods. In this webpage, you can learn how you can support these methods by purchasing the types of produce that is grown through these methods.
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Identify a Butterfly!
- 3rd grade
- science
Can you tell the difference between a male and a female monarch butterfly? In this online learning activity, you will learn to identify these butterflies. Then you can use that to help identify them around your home. The activity includes a quiz to see how well you have learned this scientific skill.
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Restoring Our Coral Reefs – Mini-Documentary Video
- 7th grade
- science
View this video to learn how scientists at Mote Marine Laboratory study, protect and restore coral reefs in the Florida Keys. This video, produced by Faith Oakley, is a companion video from the Conservation Tales Florida Keys series of books. The books support learning for grades 3-8 to teach about conservation and science practices.
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Preparing to View the 2024 Total Eclipse Safely: A Video Article
- 3rd grade
- science
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J is for Jane
- kindergarten
- science
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Identify a Butterfly!
- 3rd grade
- science
Can you tell the difference between a male and a female monarch butterfly? In this online learning activity, you will learn to identify these butterflies. Then you can use that to help identify them around your home. The activity includes a quiz to see how well you have learned this scientific skill.
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Fish Go To School? An ADI Lesson Plan
- 8th grade
- science
Download the "Fish Go To School?" Lesson Plan, a science unit for middle and high school classrooms. This lesson is developed in the Argument Driven Inquiry (ADI) format to help learners practice doing science as scientists do! In this lesson, students learn about research being conducted at Ball State University in the Animal Behavior Lab, led by Dr. Jessica Ward. Students view short video clips describing how the researchers study the way fish embryos can learn to identify and avoid predators while still in the egg. Learner reflect on ideas that lead to their own plan to investigate this phenomenon, then collect and analyze data, create scientific arguments that they present to peers, revise and submit to the teacher. Downloadable Files include the Teacher Materials, a Student Packet, and a set of Powerpoint slides teachers can use in the classroom. All three of these files include links to three videos that students will view at key steps in the investigation. The lesson is aligned with Next Generation Standards (NGSS).
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Save the Ocean! A Coral Game from Conservation Tales
- 5th grade
- science
This game lets learners simulate the coral restoration work done by Mote Marine Laboratory's International Coral Reef Research and Restorations team to rebuild coral reef ecosystems in the Florida Keys! Select a coral species, and help "fragment" the corals to grow more. Then help grow them in an ocean nursery, and eventually plant them on a coral reef! Play them game on the web, or install the Figma app to play the game there! This game is based on the Conservation Tales team's collaboration with Mote, and reflects the real science practices used in the field
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Fish Go To School? An ADI Lesson Plan
- 8th grade
- science
Download the "Fish Go To School?" Lesson Plan, a science unit for middle and high school classrooms. This lesson is developed in the Argument Driven Inquiry (ADI) format to help learners practice doing science as scientists do! In this lesson, students learn about research being conducted at Ball State University in the Animal Behavior Lab, led by Dr. Jessica Ward. Students view short video clips describing how the researchers study the way fish embryos can learn to identify and avoid predators while still in the egg. Learner reflect on ideas that lead to their own plan to investigate this phenomenon, then collect and analyze data, create scientific arguments that they present to peers, revise and submit to the teacher. Downloadable Files include the Teacher Materials, a Student Packet, and a set of Powerpoint slides teachers can use in the classroom. All three of these files include links to three videos that students will view at key steps in the investigation. The lesson is aligned with Next Generation Standards (NGSS).
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