School Habitat Garden
Friends of Heinz Refuge at Tinicum, PA, helped Widener Partnership Charter School create a school yard habitat. Teachers use nearby John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge as a resource to support their classroom teaching of environmental education. Students engaged in virtual field trip to share their habitat knowledge with students in Trinidad using laptops & Skype.
The school uses the research based FOSS program (Full Option Science System) to teach science. FOSS is correlated to National and State Science Education Standards. The FOSS modules are designed to monitor student progress in content knowledge, conducting investigations, and building explanations. The scope and sequence for our kindergarten included Trees, Fabric, Wood & Paper, and Animals Two by Two. For first grade, the scope and sequence included Insects, New Plants, Air & Weather, and Pebbles, Sand & Silt.
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Famous quotes containing the words school, habitat and/or garden:
“East, west, north, south, or like a school broke up,
Each hurries toward his home and sporting-place.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Neither moral relations nor the moral law can swing in vacuo. Their only habitat can be a mind which feels them; and no world composed of merely physical facts can possibly be a world to which ethical propositions apply.”
—William James (1842–1910)
“He had the oaks for heating and for light.
He had a hen, he had a pig in sight.
He had a well, he had the rain to catch.
He had a ten-by-twenty garden patch.
Nor did he lack for common entertainment.
That I assume was what our passing train meant.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)