Sparkling IBSE: Hummingbird seeks Bromeliad, Sonja Eilers and Yvonne Matzick
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Sparkling IBSE:Hummingbird seeks Bromeliad
Sonja Eilers, Yvonne Matzick, Kevin Henning, Doris Elster
Institute of Biology EducationBremen, Germany
Programme• The European project INQUIRE
• INQUIRE for Students Course Bremen
• Sparkling IBSE activities– Expedition to Mount Kinabalu (Yvonne Matzick, Kevin
Henning)
– Hummingbird seeks Bromeliad (Sonja Eilers)
– Which apple variety shall we choose? (Doris Elster)
• Discussion
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The European project INQUIRE
• 17 Partners from 11 Countries coordinated by University of Innsbruck, Austria
• Promotion of inquiry based science education (IBSE) through teacher training courses
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INQUIRE for STUDENTS Course
Flat hierarchical structure in a Community of Learners
Authentic learning environments
Inquiry based science education (IBSE)
Hands-on activities, minds-on –activities with green plants in focus
Reflective Practitioner
– Planning, conducting and reflecting of
– Working with pupils/classes of the lower secondary level
o Thematic focus
– Biodiversity, biodiversity loss and climate change
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INQUIRE for STUDENTS Course at Bremen
:
o Thematic focus
– Biodiversity, biodiversity loss and climate change
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Programme• The European project INQUIRE
• INQUIRE for Students Course Bremen
• Sparkling IBSE activities– Expedition to Mount Kinabalu (Yvonne Matzick,
Kevin Henning)
– Hummingbird seeks Bromeliad (Sonja Eilers)
– Which apple variety shall we choose? (Doris Elster)
• Discussion
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IBSE Activity:Expedition to Mount Kinabalu
Expedition to Mount Kinabalu
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Expedition to Mount Kinabalu
Mount Kinabalu• Located on Borneo in
southeast Malaysia
• Highest peak in the malayarchipelago (4095 m)
• Incredible biodiversity ofplant life with 5000-6000 different species– For example orchids, pitcher
plants and rhododendron
• World Heritage side
• Map of BorneoEndangered species
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Expedition to Mount Kinabalu
Deforestation on Borneo
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Expedition to Mount Kinabalu
IBSE Activity
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• Structured in a station based system
Each station representates a different habitat along the hillside
• The pupils
form expedition teams
„climb“ the hill
get to know and practice scientific methods (Constructing andvalidating hypothesises, microscoping, examine and describeplants)
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Stations
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Station 1
Station 2
Station 3
Station 4
Summit
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Station 1 - Lowland equatorial evergreen rain forests
Staghorn fern
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Station 2 – Lower montane rainforests
Orchids
„Insect seeks flower“ and„Hummingbird seeks
bromeliad“
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Station 3 – Upper montane rainforests
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Station 4 – Subalpine & alpine zone
Rhododendron and azalea
Frost desiccation
Stomata
Summit rat
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Programme• The European project INQUIRE
• INQUIRE for Students Course Bremen
• Sparking IBSE activities– Expedition to Mount Kinabalu (Yvonne Matzick)
– Hummingbird seeks Bromeliad (Sonja Eilers)
– Which apple variety shall we choose? (Doris Elster)
• Discussion
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HUMMINGBIRD SEEKS BROMELIADOverview
• Students will intensivelydeal with “flowers and theirpollinators”.
• They establish hypothesis,design and conduct ownmodel experiments andanalyze them.
• Students draw conclusionson the basis of their modelexperiments.
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Goals
Students…
• learn about settlement into theecological niche as correlation ofbeak length and corolla tubelength
• find out that transport of pollenand pollination of flowers isunintended
• find out how flower constancyworks
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Tillandsia fasciculata
Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Lesser Antilles, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago, Florida, Venezuela
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Aechmea fasciata
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Aechmea nudicaulis
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Hohenbergia penduliflora
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Programme• The European project INQUIRE
• INQUIRE for Students Course Bremen
• Sparking IBSE activities– Expedition to Mount Kinabalu (Yvonne Matzick)
– Kolibri seeks Bromelia (Sonja Eilers)
– Which apple variety shall we choose? (Doris Elster)
• Discussion
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WHICH APPLE VARIETY TO CHOOSE?
Doris Elster
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Which apple variety to choose?
• A school class wants to buy apples for their school trip.
• Which apple variety should they buy?
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Apple variety
Criteria Granny Smith Red Delicious Boskoop Elstar
Taste
Growing conventional
Price [kg] [fill in price] [fill in price] [fill in price] [fill in price]
Material 1
You want to buy one kilo apples at a supermarket. Among the choices are four different apple
varieties. Next to the apple baskets you find some information on each variety that may help
you in your decision making.
Which apple variety to choose?
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Which apple variety to choose?
Criteria Direction Weighting
(1-3)
Granny Smith Red Delicious Boskoop Elstar
Points Score Points Score Points Score Points Scor
e
Taste Individual
direction
Growing Ecological
better than
conventional
Price The
cheaper, the
better
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The following table is a scheme, which may help you deciding on which apple variety to choose!
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Thanks for your attention!
The INQUIRE team and course participants at the University of Bremen
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Where you can get further information
• The INQUIRE Website istranslated into 10 languages. www.inquirybotany.org
• Here you will find IBSE activities, news anddiscussions and theINQUIRE Course Manual.
• About the German INQUIRE activities: [email protected]
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ReferencesINQUIRE (Inquiry based Teacher Training for a sustainable future).
http://www.inquiebotany.org/en [download November 10th, 2012]
INQUIRE Consortium (2011). Pilot INQUIRE Course Manual for Teachers and Educators, University Bremen, Germany.
IBSE Activities (on CD Rom)
Elster, D., Eilers, S., Logemann, S. (2013). Hummingbird seeks Bromelid. Modulbook of INQUIRE team Uni Bremen.
Matzick, Y., Henning, K. (2013). Expedition to Mount Kinabalu. INQUIRE Modulbook of UniBremen.
Elster, D. (2011). Which Apple Variety to Choose? INQUIRE Modulbook of Uni Bremen.
Möller, J., Ritter, U., Elster, D. (2012) Landscape Architecture.
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