Teacher Resources

Teacher-Resources [ezcol_2third]

The Paddlefish Project is an environmental science enrichment program networking scientists with stakeholders to address local issues of importance.

It effectively serves as a model for creating behavioral change that benefits the environment by providing elementary, secondary, and postsecondary students, their teachers and professors, volunteers, and event attendees with content knowledge, scientific process skills, and real-world practice to make informed environmental decisions and to take responsible actions. Behavioral change will occur as participants acquire knowledge, apply their understandings while implementing investigations, and as they organize, differentiate, characterize, and evaluate data.

Final Report for Big Cypress Bayou Paddlefish Reintroduction Assessment
Paddlefish Reintroduction Education Initiative

addresses EPA’s educational priorities for community projects
involves preK-postsecondary students and the public
focuses on local issues of environmental importance

Project activities are related to the reintroduction of the American Paddlefish and improving habitat for other aquatic species and terrestrial plants and animals. EPA’s environmental priorities for protecting water are addressed by monitoring surface water quality and analysis of the effectiveness of previous aquatic and land-based habitat restoration work.

Supporting Citizen Science Projects [ watch video ]

Use this Project as a Template

Even though this environmental education proposal is based on CLI’s development and implementation of an experiment for reintroducing the Paddlefish to its native waters, this project can be used as a template for the reintroduction of any native organism to its historic place by utilizing the same approach, the same activities, the same type investigations, and a similar culminating event. In addition, the Paddlefish Project provides a template for community projects emanating from previous, existing, and new scientific investigations of important environmental issues as no other education project has done.

CURRICULUM
– Recommended Curricula

Create an Inquiry-based Lesson
– Convert your lesson to an inquiry-based lesson

Curriculum Links: nature-walk
– inaturalist
– Fishes of Texas
– Reports of River Studies: Texas Parks & Wildlife
– Edmodo
– Growing up WILD
– Aquatic WILD
– Texas Aquatic Science: Learn about Texas aquatic ecosystems from headwaters to ocean
– The Cornell Lab’s Bird Cams: Giving people a truly meaningful opportunity to learn about the lives of birds and share their passion with a community.
– The Cornell Lab’s BirdSleuth (K-12): With engaging, hands-on activities, and authentic scientific research opportunities, BirdSleuth is an ideal way to teach science content and the scientific process. Your students will be at the center of the action, making first-hand observations, collecting data, and sharing what they’ve found with real scientists. Count on us to support inquiry learning in your classroom… linked to the outdoors!
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– Texas Junior Master Gardeners: Explore a fun way to teach children about nutrition: through gardening. A garden provides a site for hands-on lessons about fruits and vegetables, important components of our diet. Gardens are exciting, interactive ways to demonstrate life skills and to develop good habits.
– Junior Master Gardener
– Wildscapes
– Xeriscape
– How to Xeriscape
– Texas SmartScape
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– Texas Nature Trackers: Learn how to gather data about various species found on public lands or on your own property. Collected data is sent to biologists who use the information to gain a better understanding of the status and management needs of various species. The goal of the program is to enable long-term conservation of these species and appreciation among Texas citizens.
Merlin Bird ID app from Cornell Lab of Ornithology
– Texas Stream Team
– Invaders of Texas
– Life Cycle of the Monarch
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Benthic Macroinvertebrates
– Stroud Center
– NC State University
– EPA
– IOWA DNR
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– Natures Playground: Identify Trees, Flowers and Animal Tracks
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– Networking Resources: Campus Resources for Networking
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– Beginners Guide To Gardening With Kids