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Crushed up creepy-crawlies are helping scientists catalogue biodiversity and track threatened species.
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Wow - super interesting way to use DNA as a means of understanding biodiversity in an ecosystem like the Amazon. Great classroom connection for HS educators!
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Awesomeness Alert! What a great infographic on "a sense of place" - we will be using this as part of our 2014 Educator Academy in the Amazon for sure!
Leoncio Lopez-Ocon's curator insight,
November 9, 2013 7:17 AM
Poster sobre la enseñanza de la geografía
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Kidscreen
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Hope to see this on a North American channel soon!
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46 Tools To Make Infographics In The Classroom
Infographics are interesting–a mash of (hopefully) easily-consumed visuals (so, symbols, shapes, and images) and added relevant character-based data (so, numbers, words, and brief sentences). The learning application for them is clear, with many academic standards–including the Common Core standards–requiring teachers to use a variety of media forms, charts, and other data for both information reading as well as general fluency. It’s curious they haven’t really “caught on” in schools considering how well they bridge both the old-form textbook habit of cramming tons of information into a small space, while also neatly overlapping with the dynamic and digital world.
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Cool!
Louise Robinson-Lay's curator insight,
November 9, 2013 3:35 PM
creating infographics is easy using these sites. The most important thing is to do quality research first. 
Raquel Oliveira's curator insight,
November 10, 2013 9:26 AM
gosto de ferramentas que facilitem o aprndizado visualmente. Para quem compartilha da ideia, mas nao tem o dom grafico como eu...pode recorrer a algumas estrategias prontas... 
Luís Cálix's curator insight,
November 22, 2013 6:54 PM
Sempre apelativos os infográficos são uma boa ferramenta para trabalho na sala de aula. Esta lista é extensa e apresenta muito boas sugestões. A explorar.
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Avocados should be extinct!
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This is an AWESOME essay and perfect to introduce evolution and co-evolution to MS/HS students! Be sure to check out the video at the end "Ghosts of Evolution"
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Rainforest experts explain the challenges to maintaining one of the planet's essential natural resources • Plus top Amazon facts to share with your students
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Revolutionizing Education in the Colombian Rainforest Huffington Post In 2010, I traveled to this region as a representative of the Amazon Conservation Team (ACT), an NGO providing resources and support for Yachaikury, an experimental school of 150...
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Break the Cycle: Water bottle life cycle
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Great sustainablity resources and activites from ASU's Sustainable Science for Sustainable Schools.
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This morning I woke up very tired. Last night, Julie and I has a creature in our room. We were laying there trying to go to sleep listening to the animals "talking" from a distance. Then we heard a...
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Role reversal in the Amazon - teachers become learners and worlds get rocked during the Educator Academy in the Amazon! http://www.amazonworkshops.com/educators--naturalists.html
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NEXT.cc is an eco web that develops ethical imagination and environmental stewardship. NEXT.cc introduces what design is, what design does, and why design is important. It offers activities across nine scales – nano, pattern, object, space, architecture, neighborhood, urban, region, and world.
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This is an amazing site and resource for educators who want to connect local to global, form and function to design, STEM to the environment, and more!
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Madison Brings The Rainforest To Students
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Awesome classroom project focusing on the rainforest and chocolate!
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A billion people don't have enough drinking water. Desalinating oceans is economically and environmentally expensive. Biomimicry looks at how nature does it. Via Miguel Prazeres
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http://youtu.be/LfUP6ejMnzs To mark the 50th birthday of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) back in March, thousands of leafcutter ants at the Cologne Zoo were enlisted in a novel "Ant Rally" to ...
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AWESOMENESS ALERT! Fantastic and fun, this video clip is a great way to launch an Amazon Awareness campaign in your classroom. (If it works for the World Wildlife Fund, it will work for you!)
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Let's be honest...looking for tarantulas on the ceiling before sitting down to dinner is not considered normal. Nor is checking for frogs in the shower before you shampoo. But as many of our Amazo...
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From running workshops for primary pupils to promoting recycling in school, a secondary in Worthing is using the power of student voice to teach green lessons
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Teach your kids about the rainforest! Visit our Kids' Corner for fun facts, games & activities http://t.co/1IsnAHmXSp http://t.co/BjQwKSha2n
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More good stuff from Rainforest Alliance - games, facts, activities, virtual storybooks, and more!
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Fun facts about this fascinating rainforest understory plant, world wide favorite, and economic commodity
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Kim Thomas talks to three different primaries about how they recreated the Amazon environment in school
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Great ideas from the UK on bringing the Amazon to life in elementary classrooms.
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If you are off the planet with a camera looking down at Earth, the seasons seem like breaths. Via Mike Busarello's Digital Storybooks
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This is just amazingly awesome!
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A range of education programmes are bringing the rainforest to life for students. Kim Thomas profiles her favourite locations and mobile apps
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Love those UK educators! They have always found ways to infuse Amazon awareness into their curriculum. Here's a batch of ideas from across the pond!
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Do you think that nature-and-adventure travel companies should now have official cell phone policies in place? Have you ever had a bad -- or good -- experience with cell phone users on an adventure trip?
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Great question!!! Amazon travelers? What do you think??
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The character of the world's rainforests is changing to reflect a new kind of indigenous species, the monstrous vehicles that are causing their destru
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A field guide to rainforest deforestation implements...interesting!
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Resources for teaching about sustainability http://www.scoop.it/t/sustainability-education Via Roxana Marachi, PhD
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Great curated collection of sustainability education resources
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You bet! Respondents to a recent survey think that taking educational trips -- defined as “trips taken with school or family that incorporated learning activities” -- made them more interested in learning and influenced their career choice. And that's enough to make educational trips seem pretty darn powerful.
Some of the survey’s more encouraging finds:
89% of survey respondents said educational travel had a “positive impact” on their education and/or career.86% said travel made them more intellectually curious. 80% said travel made them more interested in what they learned at school. 59% said travel helped them get better grades. 52% said travel influenced their career choice. 34% said travel made them a better person. 90% said their trips were educational, fun, engaging and/or inspiring.