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Program Overview
The Great Explorations in Math and Science (GEMS) series includes more than 50 teacher's guides and handbooks for preschool through grade 10. About 35 of these are appropriate for middle school. The series also includes several assembly presenter's guides and exhibit guides. New guides and handbooks continue to be developed, and current titles are revised frequently. The series is designed to teach key science and mathematics concepts through activity-based learning. The time needed to complete GEMS units varies from about 2 to 10 class sessions.
Teacher's Guide
Recommended grade level:
6-8.
In Animals in Action, students investigate animal behavior by observing live animals. They first observe and describe the behavior of young animals--for example, gerbils, hamsters, guinea pigs, or chicks--enclosed in a large classroom corral. Then they introduce stimulus objects, such as food or shelter, and observe how each animal responds. On the basis of information in Animals in Action, students discuss the humane treatment of animals. Teams of students then design, conduct, and evaluate their own animal-behavior experiments, using small organisms such as crayfish, isopods, crickets, or garden snails. Findings are discussed at a simulated scientific convention.
Background information, easy-to-follow lesson plans for each of the 5 sessions, requiring 45 minutes each, and a small-animal resource guide are included in this unit.
Key to Content Standards: 5-8 (see app. C)
UNIFYING CONCEPTS AND PROCESSES: Systems, order, and organization; evidence, models, and explanation.
SCIENCE AS INQUIRY: Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry; understandings about scientific inquiry.
LIFE SCIENCE: Regulation and behavior.
HISTORY AND NATURE OF SCIENCE: Nature of science.
Price:
$10.50 (ISBN 0-912511-10-9).
Publisher/supplier:
LHS GEMS.
Materials:
Available locally, or from commercial suppliers.
