Incorporating Field Experiences Into Your Instruction ( short course )

1. Incorporating Field Experiences Into Your Instruction (short course) November 12, 2010 9:00 to 12:00 Room 342C Kirk Evans Olson Elementary - Allen ISD kirk_evans@allenisd.org 972.971.2004

2. This short course will engage educators in field based experiences. We will use observation tools to make field sketches and record natural observations. Teachers will use a journal to record and organize data. We will conduct a series of outdoor lessons, use children's literature and build on our ecological literacy throughout the course. By participating in these lessons and experiences, teachers will learn how to teach elementary science concepts within a naturalistic inquiry framework. Description Literature Used…. The Other Way to Listen Everybody Need a Rock Your Own Best Secret Place Byrd Baylor & Peter Parnall If you’re not from the prairie…… David Bouchard & Henry Ripplinger Keeping a Nature Journal Clare Walker Leslie & Charles E. Roth Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder Richard Louv Wilderness is …everywhere: ineradicable populations of fungi, moss, mold, yeast, and such, that surround and inhabit us. Deer mice on the back porch, deer bounding across the freeway, pigeons in the park. Spiders in the corners. -- Gary Snyder as quoted in Sierra

3. Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy Planning Framework

4. Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy Planning Framework

5. SCIENCE PROCESS SKILLS Scientific Investigation and Reasoning K.1 - 5.1 The student…. conducts classroom and outdoor investigations..... (K-1 80%, 2-3 60%, 4-5 50%) K.2 - 1. 2 The student …. develops the abilities to ask questions and seek answers in classroom and outdoor investigations. 2.2 - 5.2(2.2 develops) use scientific inquiry methods during laboratory and outdoor investigations. K.3 – 5.3 The students….use critical thinking and scientific problem solving..... making informed decisions K.4 - 5.4 The student….. *K.4-2.4 uses age appropriate tools and models to investigate the natural world *3.4 - 5.4 knows how to use a variety of tools and methods (4.4 materials, equipment, and models) to conduct science inquiry.  -- hand lens, notebooks, rulers, Nature's Window USE SENSES • collect and record--compare and analysis data/information (by observing and measuring…. labeled pictures4.2B) • make observations • observable patterns in nature • observations and investigations • detailed observations and accurate measurements (5.2C) ASK QUESTIONS • compare data and information • communicate observations and provide reasons for explanations using student generated data from simple descriptive investigations (K.2D,1.2E) • make predictions based on observations and patterns (such as the shapes of leaves K.3B) (1.3B, 2.3B) • analysis and interpret patterns • plan and implement • construct reasonable explanations • communicate valid conclusions….. by drawing pictures (3.2F)

6. Systems Cycles Processes Patterns SCIENCE CONCEPTS Living Organisms Structure Functions Energy Materials K. 7 – 2.7 Earth and space. The student knows that the natural world includes earth materials. (rocks, soil, and water that can be observed in cycles, patterns, and systems – 1.7) A. Observe, describe, compare, and sort rocks (components of soil – 1.7A) by size, shape, color, and texture. K.10 – 5.10 Organisms and Environments. The student knows that organisms resemble their parents(undergo similar life processes 3.10-5.10) and have structures and processes that help them survive within their environments. Student Expectations K-5 – Sort, observe, record, compare physical characteristics/structure and function/adapations by – color, size, body covering, leaf shape, shape of beak, hooves on prairie animals, webbed feet, how animals move, what they eat, where they live….. identify parts of plants, observe and record life cycles of insects, chickens, frog or fish, tomato plants, lady bugs, butterflies, beetles, radishes, lima beans….. K.10 – 5.10 Organisms and Environments. The student knows that organisms resemble their parents(undergo similar life processes 3.10-5.10) and have structures and processes that help them survive within their environments. TEKS- K.10 A,B,C,D – 5.10 A,B,C Non-living K. 7 & 2.8 Earth and space. The student knows that the natural world includes earth materials. (rocks, soil, and water that can be observed in cycles, patterns, and systems – 1.7) 3.7 – 5.7 Earth and Space …. Earth consists of natural (useful 4.7) resources and its surface is continuously changing. Once Living

7. Make Deep Connections Develop a Sense of Place Foster Ecological and Environment Literacy (Ecoliteracy) Build Naturalistic Intelligence Understand Cultural Landscape Explore our Ecological Address Outcomes of field based investigations and experiences….

8. Your Ecological Address It is warm behind the driftwood Now, for the wind has gone With the geese. So would I – If I were the wind. --Aldo Leopold A Sand County Almanac If you’re not from the….. You don’t know the….. You can’t know the….

9. Journal Set Up (Notebook) Suggestions from Keeping a Nature Journal, Claire Walker Leslie Place this information in the top left or right corner: -Date -Place -Weather/Temperature -Time of day *Moon phase *Sunrise *Sunset -Other observation like: Fall equinox, Halloween, snow all day, drought TEKS -  • "The greatest gift the journal can give • you is the TIME to roam without purpose, to LISTEN, to WATCH, to REFLECT, TO BE QUIET."   • --Claire Walker Leslie TEKS- Weather, patterns in the natural world and sky,K.8 A – 5.8A

10. He thought of one more thing. “It’s good to walk with people but sometimes go alone.” “That way,” he said, “you can always stop and listen at the right time.” Byrd Baylor The Other Way to Listen Sound Map

11. Color Hunt For most of us, knowledge of our world comes largely through sight, yet we look about with such unseeing eyes that we are partially blind. One way to open your eyes to unnoticed beauty is to ask yourself, “What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew I would never see it again?” -- Rachel Carson The Sense of Wonder

12. Texture - Rubbings It is not half so important To know as to feel. -- Rachel Carson, A Sense of Wonder

13. Everybody Needs a Rock Everybody Needs a rock. I’m sorry for kids who don’t have a rock for a friend. I’m sorry for kids who only have TRICYCLES BICYCLES HORSES ELEPHANTS GOLDFISH THREE-ROOM PLAYHOUSES FIRE ENGINES WIND-UP DRAGONS AND THINGS LIKE THAT – if they don’t have a rock for a friend. Everybody Needs a Rock, -- Byrd Baylor

14. Contour and Gesture Drawing Gesture Sketching Blind/Modified Contour Drawing “The more I sketch….. the easier it is to draw…..” -- Cynthie Fisher Wildlife Painting Basics

15. Lot and Plot Study