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Step Into the Wild With Dr. Patricia A. Hewitt

Step Into the Wild With Dr. Patricia A. Hewitt. An immersion experience for pre- and in-service teachers. Why an Overnight Experience ?. The Clientele Rural and Urban Pre-Service Teachers Lack of Inquiry Experience Lack of Environmental Ethic My Convictions Organic lifestyle

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Step Into the Wild With Dr. Patricia A. Hewitt

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  1. Step Into the Wild WithDr. Patricia A. Hewitt An immersion experience for pre- and in-service teachers

  2. Why an Overnight Experience ? • The Clientele • Rural and Urban Pre-Service Teachers • Lack of Inquiry Experience • Lack of Environmental Ethic My Convictions Organic lifestyle Ethics Toward Nature and Wildlife

  3. Previous Experience & Motivation • Biology Research Assistant • Neotropical Migrant Songbirds • Identification • Nest Monitoring • Habitat Data Collection

  4. Gathering Before the Outing Guinea Pig Group One

  5. Stream Walking Don't fall in!

  6. Questions to Ask What is it? What do you think this can tell us about these woods? What conditions do you think are best? How can we find out more?

  7. Students collecting samples to identify

  8. What Can I Learn? • What Lives Here? • What would happen if this were removed from its habitat? • Where are the best conditions to be found for this specimen?

  9. What tree have I found? • Questions to Ask?

  10. Preparing to Gather Samples • Inquiry Questions? • What kinds of “things” might you find under these conditions? • How can we find out what conditions are present? Is This Thing Safe?

  11. Out on the Pond Do You See Anything?

  12. Sorting Through Specimens • What do you see? • How do we know what kinds of invertebrates might live here? • What other animals might we find? Learning to Use Field Guides

  13. Expected or Unexpected?How do you know?

  14. More Microscope Work

  15. Hard at Work I Know It's Here Somewhere

  16. Samples From The Woodland Pond I See a Fish!

  17. How is this pond different from the other one?

  18. Enjoying the Stream Walk • What might I find here? • What is a riparian area? • How is a riparian area different from other habitats? • What organisms enjoy the conditions present?

  19. Orienteering the Woodland Course • What do I find at each station? • How can identify what lives where? • What makes each part of the forest different from others?

  20. Journal Writing

  21. What Lives Here? • How do habitat conditions dictate the kinds of plants and animals present? • How can man change conditions to make it harder for these species to survive?

  22. Research Says:Teachers Participating in Inquiry Experiences… • Learn more scientific information • Use more cooperative groups • Use more projects in teaching • Teach using inquiry

  23. Learn by Doing Collect Own Data Apply Data to Learning Situations Being a Scientist Using Inquiry Pedagogy Implications

  24. Evaluation Results What They Said: Learned to Look Before this, never considered what I was walking on Never looked at nature quite this way Campout best experience I’ve had Everything was a first for me!

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