Jim’s posthaven

For Earth Day my environmental science class each got one minute to talk about what most impacted them in the discussions a research we have done on climate change. Here is the video. I am very proud of their work and thought that their presentations were artfully done stories.

Here is the lesson I did in Environmental Science this week. I liked it but I also thought I should put it out for comment, because it did not work exactly as planned. My thoughts in no particular order:

• I also wish I had a better way of collecting pictures than twitpic.com. Here is a link to the pictures.
• I had an absent student add the last eight items after the fact for his credit. I really liked some of his ideas.
• I was happy that I had enough kids with cellphone plans that allowed picture messaging for free that I had students in pairs.
• My eventual goal is to have students pick a park or place and have them put together these for the parks department so that anyone can go on the scavenger hunts. To do this I need to figure out a public place to post photos and a way of getting the directions to people via text messaging.

Wetland Scavenger Hunt

Find any of these things along the boardwalk through the wetland. Use your phone to take a picture to document your find. Send the picture to username.XXXX@twitpic.com with the subject being the category of the find and the text being your team name. First and unique finds will be worth two points each, other finds will be worth one. The best team will get five points of extra credit on this. Everyone else's score will be out of the best score minus five points.

Lesson Based On

 http://dnr.wi.gov/org/caer/ce/eek/teacher/wetlandsheet.htm