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SCIENCE / ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION

A Mathematical Journey Through Florida's Watersheds

Mathematics and Science come together in activities that interweave Florida's mathematics strands (Number Sense, Concepts, and Operations; Measurement; Geometry and Spatial Sense; Algebraic Thinking, and Data Analysis and Probability) with topics about Florida's environment (What is a Watershed?; Plants and Animals of the Watershed; Natural Resources of the Watershed; and Human Interactions with the Watershed).  Designed for third through eighth grade students, these activities give students hands-on experiences with real-world situations and tools.  To maximize impact on student achievement, hundreds of FCAT-type mathematics questions and prompts are provided as an integral part of the activities.  This workshop requires a three-hour orientation session to the guide and the associated resource box materials.

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This three-hour training includes an orientation to a two-part project:

An on-line searchable database of children's literature with keys to Sunshine State Standards in Science and Social Studies and teaching strategies from the Florida Curriculum Frameworks

Reading and Writing Naturally Database

A Watershed Education Resource Box which contains literary and informative reading texts, maps, posters, nature puppets, a video tape, an audio tape, and instructional activities designed to interest fourth through eighth grade students in reading and writing tasks.  The teacher notebook contains more than 65 FCAT-type guided practice tasks, 31 FCAT Writing (Florida Writes!) prompts, and more than two dozen other learning activities for students.

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