Electronic Field Trip
A standards-led curriculum supported by NASA's Earth Science Education Program
(Grades 3 to 8)
Send students into the field with Field Museum scientists as their guides!
Ecosystems are changing rapidly, and plants and animals are becoming extinct at an alarming rate. What can your students do to protect the planet and the animals and plants that live on it? To find out, join Project E.R. (environmental rescue).
Through a broadcast and online curriculum, the Project E.R. e-field trip turns students into stewards of the environment. We invite you and your students to join us on a rescue expedition to ecosystems where Field Museum scientists are working to understand and conserve biodiversity. Students will investigate how to balance the needs of people with those of the broader ecosystems of which they are only a part.
On a Mission to Save the Earth
With Field Museum botanist Patrick Leacock and anthropologist Sibel Kusimba as guides, students become part of a rescue team in the one-hour Project E.R. broadcast produced by WYCC/ PBS Chicago 20. Students journey to three ecosystems where they will:
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efforts;
· Study with Dr. Bruce Patterson how lions in Kenya’s Tsavo National Park behave and interact with their ecosystem; and
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Preserving Diversity
The Project E.R. online curriculum features scientific investigations and online resources. With this standards-led curriculum, students continue their rescue expedition through a series of projects and activities by:
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· Charting the relationships among plants, animals, and people in an ecosystem; and
· Examining how people impact an ecosystem and how they can work to minimize this impact.
Cost
Project E.R., made possible by a grant from NASA's Earth Science Education Program, is available for FREE to all schools and organizations.
PROJECT E.R. PARTICIPATION FORM
Name
Title
School/ Organization
Address
City
State
Zip Code
Phone
Fax
The number of students I plan to involve is _____________.
The Project E.R. e-field trip consists of an online curriculum and a broadcast. The live broadcast will air on Tuesday, May 22, 2001 at 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. (Central).
____I would like access to the FREE online curriculum, and /or
____ I would like to receive the FREE broadcast via:
- __ Satellite (Ku-band). You must have access to a
steerable (not fixed) satellite dish. Coordinates to the live
broadcast will be forwarded to you once you register.
- __ Select PBS and Educational Television Stations. Chicago's WYCC/ PBS Chicago 20 will air the broadcast on Tuesday, May 22, 2001, at 11 a.m. (Central). Visit http://www.fieldmuseum.org/education/broadcast.html for a list of stations planning to air the Project E.R. broadcast and their showtimes.
- __ Webcast. The live broadcast via the Internet is brought to you by Apple Learning Interchange. Set up and webcast information is available at http://ali.apple.com/events/field_er.
- __ Next Generation Internets: We will, in partnership with the International Center for Advanced Internet Research (www.icair.org) at Northwestern University, offer a high quality digital multicast over worldwide Next Generation Internets. It will be available to anyone with access to a multicast-enabled broadband network at: http://fieldmuseum.icair.org.
- __ VHS Tape.
Non-interactive, non-live formats are available for public and private libraries across the nation. - __ Select PBS and Educational Television Stations. Chicago's WYCC/ PBS Chicago 20 will air the broadcast on Tuesday, May 22, 2001, at 11 a.m. (Central). Visit http://www.fieldmuseum.org/education/broadcast.html for a list of stations planning to air the Project E.R. broadcast and their showtimes.
Raissa A. Jose
Project Coordinator, Educational Media
The Field Museum
Department of Education and Outreach
1400 South Lake Shore Drive
Chicago, IL 60605
Telephone/Fax: 312/665-7307
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.fieldmuseum.org
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