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Ecosytems:
Curricular Integration
The following Curricular Integration Ideas were generated to
better serve the Elementary teacher s of the Vancouver School
District.
If you have any of your own Curricular Integration Ideas, please
send them to me (Kris Skrutvold at the following email address:
kskrutvo@vansd.org) and I will post them on the Kit Resources
web-site. (Currently being developed)
Math
Measurement in metric units for observation worksheet and
amount of pollutant added
Language
Arts
Write a short story about life on the riverbank
Use SciencePlus text for extinction game
Write letters to Township road department with questions about
road salt, herbicides, etc.
Journal activities using adjectives describing ecosystem
interdependencies
Write a poem about what it would be like to be a cricket in your
terrarium
Social
Studies
Investigate habitat destruction due to population growth in
and around cities
Career education topics: EPA, GreenPeace, Environmental programs
(health, science, law)
Reading
Selection on Isopods
Research/readings on pollution
Research/readings on extinction and endangerment
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