VIRTUAL POND INTERNET ACTIVITY
Estimated Time of Activity: One to two 45 minute class periods
Goals: Process Skills and Content Knowledge:
- Students will be learn how to use the internet to research animals that live in a freshwater ecosystem.
- Students will learn the different parts of the scientific method.
Materials:
- Computer with internet access (computer lab)
- Student activity worksheet. (link coming soon)
Activity Instructions:
- Have students enter website (found on their student activity sheet) into browser – www.naturegrid.org.uk/pondexplorer/pondexplorer.html
- Ask students if there was another way they could have reached the website: Google or Yahoo.com and search for Virtual Pond Dip.
- Go through Pond Investigation section with students – Introduction to the Scientific Method.
- Have them click on virtual Pond Dip.
- Go through Ramshorn snail example as an introduction to filling out the Index of Organisms section.
- Have students choose 3 animals that are found in the clam shrimp ecosystem and make an organism fact sheet (Rotifer, Cyclops and water flea –daphnia)
- Have students create a Pond food web in Power Point using pictures copied and pasted from the Virtual Pond Dip website or through a Google search. Have them finish for H.W. if not completed in class manlig-halsa.se.
Assignments:
- Have students complete their student activity sheets at home if they have internet access. If not, use a second day to complete the activity in school.
- Have students create a Pond food web in Power Point using pictures copied and pasted from the Virtual Pond Dip website or through a Google search.
Assessment:
Students will have to make an organism fact sheet on three animals, found on the website, that have been discussed in the clam shrimp ecosystem.