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Day 10

What teaching strategy have you learned?

The term ethnobotany,...the concentric human approach to behavior and how it is related to plants and nature. From BRIT professor, I learned to associate nature with human behavior and patterns. We are interrelated in many aspects and the "control" of life is not entirely at the direction of humankind.


One word that describes your experience.

transcendental

Video

Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.

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Day 9

We went the Master Gardeners community garden at the Tarrant County Resource Center.
Master gardeners show us the potential of growing herbs, native plants, even a backyard orchard. We prepared some seed starters for them and after learning different ways of propagation, we are able to make our own cuttings to take home. I forgot my camera today so from the wonderful herbs, like rosemary and dill, I used them in the dishes I made for dinner tonight.

Rosemary citrus infused salmon, garden salad with tomato onion vinagrette, cherry stone clams in tomato and basil wine broth and roasted pecan coffee rubbed bison filets.

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Day 8

Botanical Research Institute site visit

www.BRIT.org

use of ATRIUM specimen database

Day 7

Thomsen Foundation
Global to Local Perspective

1035 Total School Districts
650 Rural Districts
Northern portion of Cross Timbers area

Plant identification

International Call for Sustainability
eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
universal primary education
gender equality
reduce child mortality
improve maternal health
combat AIDS/HIV, malaria, etc
Insure environmental sustainability
develop a global partnership for development

Rachel Carson "Silent Spring"

Ford tractor 1926
Modern tractor John Deere 1964

Physiographic Map of Texas, 1996

HIPPOS
H-abitat, preserving space with greatest diversity within confines of space
I-nvasive species
P-opulation
P-ollution
O-ver harvesting
S-oil

Day 6

Back at Palko....

Group discussion, Kyle created his class website.

Confused? Want to know? How would you incorporate technology into classroom with your students?

Nobelprize.org for games.


Mark Bloom:
The Other Stuff, the BIG Idea!

making connections to the content

Apple Quiz
Video Michael Pollan
The Botany of Desire
Apple Central Asia, Kasastanz, (Russia)
Sweetness evolved for dispersion
Mammals appealled to them
Eaten and discreted by animals
Enculturated in to religion and culture
brought to China and then westward
Johnny Appleseed "Chapman"
1774 20's head west travelled to Ohio River Valley, spreading the plants
homeless traveler who taught people how to seed, grow apples with much knowledge
Sold saplings
why plant from seed? taste appearance is not in seed, each seed will produce a different apple, grafting does a better job at producing a replica, he grew seedlings because of his religious upbringing, God's spirit, don't tamper with natural things that is why he grew apples from seeds. most varieties were bitter, but they used them as hard cider, bringing alcohol to the American West.

Monoculture after 1920's:

How many species? limited to what can be eaten.

Chemicals are overused to rid of bugs from apple orchards.

over 5000 kinds of apples in Geneva NY study orchard, 1989 genes from Kasastanz,

Poverty Lane Orchards

Big Ideas
Diversity/Evolution
Monoculture
Human Control (Does it really change nature?)

Day 3-5

We spent Day 3 at the organic farm. Day 4-5 at the Botanical Gardens.

Day 2

Teacher Share

IPAD apps

MyNature
ScienceHouse
Mitosis
GeneticCode
iCell
myElements
HealthMap
TxTAKS

EyeTransport
3DBrain
EarthWatch
Compass
Apod
ScienceBistro
Green Machine

Seeds
What is the purpose of water?
What is the purpose of air? Light? Temperature? Space?

Day 1

Green Bean Activity

Description and Identification of a green bean from others


Data Collection
mass
length
density
drawing/picture
protractor
trace
texture
width

Why?
Use equipment
Learn vocabulary
Metrics
First Impression
Peer teaching
Notebook

What is the value to teaching?

What is the most important content to teach about fruit?
Content
Photosynthesis and Cell Resp
Function
Where
Life Cycle
Adaption
Distribution
Type

Fruit Activity
Make a list of your favorite fruits.
Lychee nut
mangosteen
grapes

Tray of fruit included:
Bell pepper green segmented with stem, smooth and waxy green skin and hollow, bitter to sweet smell and comes in different varities, dicot, hollow

apple green, hard, small to medium size, with stem, smooth skin, sweet smell, round, dicot, fleshy

lemon wedged, bumpy yellow and waxy skin, luminesce 9

green bean, monocot, longand skinny with furry/waxy skin, pods



All from different families, distinct smell, different skins (some are edible), seeds are internal, differnt color spectrum chlorophylll, all are edible, different taste, excite different taste buds, vines, tree or shrub, organic and biodegradable, different hardness, economical uses

How are they different, disperse seeds? Characteristics of one of the fruits so that someone can go find this fruit from Central Market?

IPAD activity
What energy is transferred to the "eater"?
What major vitamins are provided?
How does this compare to recommended daily allowance?
What major organic molecules are provided?



http://www.xs4all.nl/~pwitteve/fruit.htm for more information.

Reflective Tool for Lesson

Topic Covered Req on FWISD Curriculum FW Big Ideas Reflection/Ideas