Standard+F+Life+&+Environmental+Science

// **Content Standard**: Students in Wisconsin will demonstrate an understanding of the characteristics and structures of living things, the processes of life, and how living things interact with one another and their environment. // // Students will enhance their natural curiosity about living things and their environment through study of the structure and function of living things, ecosystems, life cycles, energy movement (transfer), energy change (transformation), and changes in populations of organisms through time. Knowledge of these concepts and processes of life and environmental science will assist students in making informed choices regarding their lifestyles and the impact they have on communities of living things in their environment. //
 * Post Standard F Resources here.**
 * Each resource will include a title, link to the resource, a short description of the resource, and grade level(s)**.
 * // Rationale //**

Soleyvic Barahona
 * Standard F:** Life & Environmental Science
 * Title:** Amphibians: Life cycle of Frogs
 * Link**: [|Frogs]
 * Grade Level:** K-3
 * Description:** This website includes activities, lesson plans, worksheets, songs, poems, books that are related to the life cycle of frogs. It is a great resource for teachers to use when teaching about frogs as amphibians.
 * Connection to the Standard:** According to Wisconsin Standard F.4.3. Life Cycles of Organisms: Illustrate the different ways that organisms grow through life stages and survive to produce new members of their type. Students will learn about the life stages of frogs and how they produce new members of their type.

[|Pollination Video]
 * Christy Elmer**
 * Standard F:** Life Science
 * Title:** Bees and Pollination
 * Grade:** K,1st, 2nd
 * Description:** This is an adorable little video by Lucas Miller, the singing zoologist. It shows how a bee pollinates plants and collects nectar for food, very entertaining. Mr. Miller seems pretty enthusiastic about science and makes it fun for kids with his videos and songs.

//Katie Grady// //**Standard F: Life and Environmental Science**// //**Title:**// //Cast Teaching Every Student// //**Link:** [|Life Cycle of Plants]// //([])// //**Grade Level:**////1// //**Description:**// //This website give an example of how a science lesson on the life cycle of a plant was taught in a more traditional setting, as well as how it was adapted to reach the needs of multiple learners. This lesson shows not only the connection to science standards but also the connection to reading/literacy standards in the state of Massachusetts, which could easily be translated into Wisconsin standards. There is also a link given to help locate sources of trade books to use with the lesson.// //**Connection to the Standard:**// //Students are to learn about how living things change over time (life cycles, mutations, adaptations, and natural selection) as part of life and environmental science. Therefore, a lesson that incorporates literature about the life cycle of a plant totally connects to the life and environmental science area.//

//Mary Butler//
 * __Standard F: Science, Life and Environmental Science__**


 * Title:** Earth worms and composting
 * Link:** http://pbskids.org/dragonflytv/show/wormfarm.html
 * Description:** This web site encourages students to think about what happens to the food they throw away every day. The site describes how a classroom can explore composting by building a worm farm and watching how the worms interact with leftovers from the students’ lunch. Students can also collect the worm urine and observe how the urine promotes plant growth as fertilizer. There is also a video which follows one boy’s efforts to compost with worms. This helps satisfy Standard F’s directive to develop explanations for the connections among living and non-living things. Observing the worms gives students an opportunity to discover how the worms meet their basic needs for water, nutrients, protection, and energy, and experimenting with the worm urine helps students investigate how plants respond to changes in their environment.
 * Grade level:** Information from this site could be used with students from K to 8th grade.

Clare Dahl
 * Standard** F. Life and Environmental Sciences
 * Title:** American Museum of Natural History wensite
 * Link to resource**: OLOGY http://www.amnh.org/ology/
 * Description:** HUGE amount of material and fun interactive activities for kids. Games, quizzes, book lists, creative projects that explore topics such as Marine Biology, Water, Earth, Genetics, Biodiversity, and more.
 * Range of appropriate grade levels.** 2-8? All ages.

Annie Partington This website is good for students of all ages because there’s so much about coral reef. Students are able to explore the impact coral reef have on the ocean and the impact we have on coral reef. The new information student’s gain from learning about coral reef will help them make informed choices because their choices influence more than just themselves in life.
 * Standard F**
 * Title:** NOAA Coral Reef Conservation
 * Link: [|Coral Reef Conservation]**
 * Description:**
 * Grades:** I think this website would be great for PreK-12.