Science and a Sense of Place

BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR/ SCIENCE IN A SENSE OF PLACE-

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My goal is to incorporate the Brain and Behavior Institute and Science and a Sense of Place into one project. The project will be on Bullying and Violence and I want to create it as a Service Learning Project, I guess I better warn my colleagues! I hope to work with the SS, math, computer and health teachers. I want the students to include stories about bullying and I hope thier stories about bullying change after this program.

Francis D. Pastorius Elementary School is located at Chelten Avenue and Sprague Street. It is in an urban setting and goes from kindergarten to seventh. I wanted to do a blog on resources in the neighborhood because many of our students are not exposed to the many treasures in their own community.

It is not a secret, neighborhoods change and I think that my students would find it interesting to see how their neighborhood has changed. I have below two maps that shows how the immediate neighborhood change from 1871 to 1895.

http://www.recycleworks.org/kids/decomposers.html

I have been fascinated by the process of decomposition for several years. Last week, deceased Tammy Faye Baker, appearing on Larrry King Live, said that they reason she wanted to be creamated*(this should be cremated) was because she didn't want the bugs to eat her! I decided several years ago, and have instructed my funeral director that I want to be buried in a pine box- so the bugs will eat me!

Kids for Science

Great sites with topics such as: Kids for Trees, The Garden, Weather & Atmosphere, Terrestrial Ecosystems & Habitats, Fun With Physics, and more!

http://www.kids-courier.com/kids_learning/science/science

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Water Cycle

Information about water and other environmental issues - see Thirstin

http://clasnews.clas.ufl.edu/clasnotes/clasnotes/9906/woolard.text.gif

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