We did the Bird Biodiversity lesson designed by a Socrates fellow last year. The activity was a little lackluster, I don't think the kids were too into it. On the other hand, it is extremely hard to do a hands-on, exciting, activity on biodiversity in a classroom in 50 minutes--it's a hard topic to teach.
I don't agree with the school's philosophy that, regardless of starting point, the teacher should be able to bring everyone to the same level...that's just ridiculous and unrealistic. And so we find ourselves in this situation--do we try to cover the standard, or do we spend a lesson trying to teach them how to take an average, or graph some data?
Next week I'm looking forward to an inquiry based biochemical macromolecules activity--I think the kids are more into "experiments".
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Would you be able to share with me the biodiversity activity you used?
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