Project Learning Tree Environmental Education Activity Guide: Pre K-8
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Recommended grade level:
6-8+.
STV: Biodiversity is an interactive videodisc program that helps students learn about the destruction and preservation of endangered species and land areas. The disc includes 25 minutes of video featuring a National Geographic film, The Diversity of Life, and more than 100 still photographs. Viewers travel from coral reefs to forests to see where human action is destroying habitats, and they see how zoos and botanical gardens are trying to protect plants and animals in artificial environments.
The HyperCard diskette that accompanies the program provides supporting text drawn from National Geographic publications, a glossary, and a feature that allows users to create customized visual presentations. Students can use the software, for example, to arrange video segments and photographs from the videodisc and type in their own narration.
The teacher's guide-—Biodiversity--includes information on key concepts, preview questions that introduce concepts in the video, and bar codes to allow access to the videodisc with a bar-code reader. The teacher's guide also provides directions for several activities--such as researching the origins of medicine in nature, graphing the population of a nearby city over the past 150 years, or gathering information about environmental organizations for an environmental fair. The videodisc includes a Spanish-language track, and the teacher's guide includes the video script in both English and Spanish.
Prices:
Level I kit (includes videodisc), $225. Level III kit (includes videodisc and HyperCard diskette), $325.
Publisher/supplier:
National Geographic Society.
Materials:
Available in kit.
