When looking for online data that I could integrate into my classroom, I immediately thought of checking the South Dakota Game, Fish, and Park website. The small town in which I live and teach in is surrounded by lakes. Our area tourism guide likes to use the line "20 lakes in 30 miles" to encourage visitors to come to the Glacial Lakes area.
Many students fish and enjoy water sports, yet don't give much thought to the biology and science processes being affected by their activities. I thought creating an activity that would require them to use online data to research non-native species and why the introduction on non-native species is a bad thing would be both revelant and interesting.
Information that I found available on the state website, included pictures of the species and maps indicating where species might be found in the state and for some, nationally. Fact sheets for a variety of non-native species were available as well.
There has been a lot of info recently about farmed trout and trout plants, I wonder if this would be of interest to students in your area? I wish I could remember where I was reading about it...
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ReplyDeleteHow are you getting the pics on your post? I cannot get anything to insert into my blog post. What is your trick?
Thank you for the information about the state website. I know Alaska has a great one too. :) Cyn
Cyn,
ReplyDeleteI have been saving pictures from other websites to my computer, and then click on the "insert image" icon in the blogger editing box. That has been the easiest way I was able to get pictures up. I tried to copy/paste as I would normally would do to use an image, but that didn't work.
I hope that helps!
Make sure you cite the images you put in your blog! One easy way to do this is to use picnik.com to just add the url to the bottom of the image!
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