Product Description: Be it rural green or urban asphalt, the schoolyard is a host to a multiplicity of life. Students, grades 3-6, become schoolyard ecologists, learning key ecological and biological concepts as they investigate their most immediate environment...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Students become animal behaviorists, conducting a series of observations on the behaviors of classroom animals. Investigations include how do animals move? What do they prefer to eat? How do they respond to light and sound? Teams of students generate and test hypothesis then hold a scientific convention to discuss their findings...read more

Product Description: Book by Barrett, Katharine, Bergman, Lincoln, Dornfest, Gigi, Lipner, Linda, Willard, Carolyn (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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This unit introduces students to field biology techniques by using a sampling and mapping system to quantify and compare the movements of hamsters and crickets in the classroom. Students observe and record the animals movements. They learn how animals react to stimuli. They graph the results of their experiments, draw conclusions, and compare their findings.

Product Description: In this compelling and unique series of life-science activities for grades two through six, student groups set up and observe living, desktop models of a pond. Over a period of weeks, each group studies and adds one type of organism at a time to a small tank, transforming the containers into aquatic habitats...read more

Product Description: Book by Barber, Jacqueline, Barrett, Katharine, Beals, Kevin, Bergman, Lincoln, Diamond, Marian C.

Product Description: Book by Barrett, Katharine, Bergman, Lincoln, Dornfest, Gigi, Lipner, Linda, Willard, Carolyn

Product Description: Book by Barrett, Katharine

Product Description: Book by Barrett, Katharine