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Survival Lesson Five: What do we do?

alicemercer — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 03:13:36 +0000

This week we will answer the following questions:

What helps living creatures survive?
Why is the survival of other living things important for humans?
What can we do to help the environment?

Survival Lesson Three: Ecosystems

alicemercer — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:29:27 +0000

This week we will be learning about how living creatures depend on each other, and make up what are called ecosystems:

Go to this site on Ecosystems. Do some Science in Motion and Game activities or one of the Review with Quiz activities (those are longer) until the timer rings;
Then write about what you have learned about how humans can affect the environment.

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Lesson 1b: Biodiversity

alicemercer — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:27:20 +0000

Do one or both of these two activities until the timer rings:

Then look at what you and others wrote last time, and add anything new you learned today in a complete sentence.

Medicine Lesson 4: Medicine from the Rainforest

alicemercer — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:54:42 +0000

This week we will be learning about the importance of rain forest for medicines we need and use. After watching a video on this topic, do this activity, then share what you have learned about this subject.

Image Credit: from pictoscribe’s photostream on flickr