Webinar: Student-Designed Ecosystem Experiments in Middle Grades
Teaching Middle-Level and Upper-Elementary Students Ecosystem Concepts with Hands-On Fast Plant Investigations
Student-designed investigations that use Wisconsin Fast Plants® to study ecosystems are powerful, three-dimensional learning experiences. In this webinar, we share a ready-to-teach, hands-on approach for upper elementary or middle school students to investigate ecosystem interactions.
Hedi Baxter Lauffer and Claudia Solís-Lemus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison demonstrate and discuss how to support learners in identifying patterns using age-appropriate data analysis to investigate abiotic and biotic ecosystem variables. The webinar also includes a discussion of teaching options with a variety of time commitments.
Participants receive access to both an editable version of the featured investigation and slides from the webinar.
Presenters:
Carolina Biological—Julie Stubbs, Product Manager for Zoology, Botany, and Microbiology
University of Wisconsin-Madison—
Hedi Baxter Lauffer, Director of Teaching and Learning, Wisconsin Fast Plants® Program
- Claudia Solís-Lemus, Assistant Professor and Data Scientist, Department of Plant Pathology, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery
Additional Reading: Webinar: Adapting a Lesson on Selection to Remote Learning
