Karin's+notes+for+preliminary+planning

Younger students : (3rd and 4th grade) first week homework based memos - use the conservation kids magazines that Kim has. some researchers: - Marie Curie, Margaret Mead - - What's a researcher? - What a county? - how to read a map? - which county has a bigg - How do you do a check up on a county? - How to find a city in the county? (what's the biggest city in a given county) - Guided searchers with mentors (find a news article about the weather in the county) - some parental concern - ask parents to sit with students for 'open ended' search - Draw from previous memos on countries <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px;">- What resources are at the DEC,

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px;">Final goals for these students: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px;">- each memo acts as content for a final five page paper <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px;">- powerpoint something. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px;">- a 'county show' - video of interesting NY county information.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px;">some Memos to make: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px;">- waste <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px;">- where does waste in your county go? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px;">- landfills, wastewater treatments, super funds site. - this is one memo <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px;">- power supplies - <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px;">- energy production and use in one county. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px;">- should have some consistent look to our memos.