[LM_NET] Need your ideas for improving a plant research project (for article)

[Kristin Fontichiaro <font@UMICH.EDU>]

*apologies for cross-posting*

Dear Colleagues --

A few days ago, I wrote asking for help revising a boring war report  
research project for a future article. Thanks to all who have been  
responding! (If you haven't, it's not too late! Submit via  
http://bit.ly/WBTxJ)

Now we're looking for help on revising a boring plant research project  
and taking submissions at http://bit.ly/JNNUi .

****THE SCENARIO***********************************************

A teacher in an urban environment wants to take her kids, who have  
limited life experience with plants or the natural world, to a  
community garden and eventually hopes to get a grant so that the  
school can build its own garden on school grounds.

To prepare for this visit, she would like to introduce her student to  
several vegetables and their life cycle. She has selected vegetables  
that grow in different ways (e.g., corn, brussel sprouts, root  
vegetables like beets or carrots, climbing vegetables like tomatoes or  
beans, etc.)

She would like to schedule time in the media center for kids to look  
up these vegetables and draw them at each phase of their life cycle.

*************THE QUESTION********************************
You agree with the teacher's perception that your urban students' view  
of the natural world and gardening is limited. How can you deepen this  
assignment to promote more inquiry, critical thinking, or problem  
solving? (For example, you could add lesson components, introduce  
social learning strategies, show how technology could deepen the  
lesson, add a scenario or framework, etc.)

***********HOW TO SUBMIT**************************
Submit your plant research makeover ideas -- 100 words or less, please  
-- to http://bit.ly/JNNUi .


Hope you can help!

Thanks,
Kristin


-- 
Kristin Fontichiaro
P.O. Box 2281, Birmingham, MI 48012 USA ~ font@umich.edu
Media Specialist, Birmingham (MI) Public Schools
Adjunct Lecturer, University of Michigan School of Information
font@umich.edu

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