{"id":2772,"date":"2011-01-23T19:39:14","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T01:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/?p=2772"},"modified":"2011-01-23T20:25:57","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T02:25:57","slug":"collaborative-learning-with-plantingscience-org","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/?p=2772","title":{"rendered":"Collaborative Learning with Plantingscience.org"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>As teachers we are always trying to provide \u201creal\u201d research opportunities for our students.\u00a0 I have utilized a unique opportunity involving the study of plants in conjunction with providing students an actual on-line scientist to provide assistance and feedback concerning their own projects.\u00a0 This website (http:\/\/www.plantingscience.org<\/a>) provides teachers the opportunity to get their students matched up with a plant scientist to help guide them perform some project that the students design themselves.\u00a0 Currently there are three major themes used: Germination and Seedling Growth Investigation<\/strong>, Photosynthesis and Respiration Investigation<\/strong>, and Traits, Variation, and Environment in Rapid Cycling Brassica<\/strong>.\u00a0 If these topics fit into your biology curriculum I would strongly suggest that you check out the planting science website.\u00a0 Your students design their own experiments, they upload their results and discussions to the plantingscience website.\u00a0 The novel aspect of this website is that they provide ALL the pertinent background information that a student would need to design and carry out a real scientific experiment.\u00a0 The students usually get an immense amount of collaborative feedback by working on-line with real scientists around the country.\u00a0 I personally have used the Traits and Variation in Rapid Cycling Brassica with 40 students and they all \u201cexperienced\u201d the real aspects of scientific research \u2013 which is sometimes hard to provide.\u00a0 I have had students also perform experiments using the Germination unit and the Celery Challenge.\u00a0 The website provides a window of about 6-8 weeks for the students to complete their research projects.\u00a0 All of these units provide everything needed to enable your students to perform \u201creal\u201d research.\u00a0 The website provides a real location for presenting student research results.\u00a0 The plantingscience website is definitely a website that can provide your students with real research involving real researchers.\u00a0 Below is the on-line help that the students get \u2013 all of this can be used even if you are not using the plantingscience.org website.<\/p>\n

Investigating Plants Safely<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.plantingscience.org\/index.php?module=pagesetter&func=viewpub&tid=17&pid=24<\/a>
\nThinking Like a Scientist \/ Working like a Scientist<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.plantingscience.org\/index.php?module=pagesetter&func=viewpub&tid=17&pid=29<\/a>
\nDesigning Experiments<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.plantingscience.org\/index.php?module=pagesetter&func=viewpub&tid=17&pid=31<\/a>
\nCollecting Data<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.plantingscience.org\/index.php?module=pagesetter&func=viewpub&tid=17&pid=27<\/a>
\nGuide to using Spreadsheets<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.plantingscience.org\/index.php?module=pagesetter&func=viewpub&tid=17&pid=13
\n<\/a>
\nSome research projects that students have completed.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.plantingscience.org\/index.php?module=pagesetter&func=searchextended&tid=2&searchname=searchextended<\/a>
\nKeep in mind that even though a few of these projects seem to be very low-level, the actual pre- and post test results taken from these projects indicate that the students learned quite a bit about designing experiments and carrying them out.\u00a0 Just as in real science we sometimes learn much more from bad experimental designs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As teachers we are always trying to provide \u201creal\u201d research opportunities for our students.\u00a0 I have utilized a unique opportunity involving the study of plants in conjunction with providing students an actual on-line scientist to provide assistance and feedback concerning their own projects.\u00a0 This website (http:\/\/www.plantingscience.org) provides teachers the opportunity to get their students matched
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