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““Transitioning to Transitioning to Digital Learning Digital Learning Communities”Communities”

Presented by:Presented by:Kelli A. BatesKelli A. Bates

21st Century Learners of Today

Hyperlink: 3 steps to 21st Century Learning

21st Century Educators of Today:

• Engage• Essential Questioning

• Explore• Explain• Extend

• Evaluate

ENGAGE

Hyperlink: Mercy, Mercy Me (Ecology)

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONING

• Do all ecosystems stay the same all the time? Why or why not?

• Why are autotrophs essential components of an ecosystem?

• What would happen if you removed any organism from a food web or chain? Be specific.

EXPLORE• Create an ecosystem in a jar or plastic

container

• Synthesize a food web of a particular ecosystem (i.e. freshwater, saltwater); draw the flow of energy; label the main components (1st-order heterotroph) of the food web

EXPLAIN• Develop a symbiosis FOLDABLE of

how organisms, including plants, interact with each other (i.e. mutualistic relationships)

• Create a Succession accordion book on a natural disaster within a given ecosystem

EXTEND• Establish several jars and vary the amount of

water you add to each. One may serve as a desert, pond or other forms of an ecosystem. Identify and describe what the differences in “rainfall” mean to the plant communities that develop in each jar.

• Experiment with different kind of soils. For example, try 3 different kinds of soils and water each as if it were “desert” environment. See what differences, if an, emerge.

EVALUATEBiome Digital Story

• Create a an mini-movie• Select a biome to research • Find 3 types of ecological relationships • List 3 threats to the biome’s environment• Create a virtual food web of organism within

the biome (http://www.ecokids.ca, www.gould.edu.au)

• Include video and/or audio clips or podcasts of the biome

Make today’s VISION….

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