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Phenomenon Mosquito Life Cycle & Mosquito Eater Fish

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Phenomenon Mosquito Life Cycle & Mosquito Eater Fish

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Teacher background information on mosquitos. Contact Tulare Mosquito Abatement District https://www.tularemosquito.com/ to learn more about control.

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Mosquito Fish to control Mosquito population.

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Mosquito Fish to control Mosquito population.

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Biological mosquito control methods protect the public from mosquitoes and the transmission of mosquito-borne diseases. Mosquito biological control agents include a wide variety of pathogens, parasites and predators. A biological control agent used by the District is Gambusia affinis, the mosquitofish. Mosquitofish are small live-bearing minnows closely related to the common guppy. Used in mosquito control in California since 1922, these fish consume mosquito larvae and pupae and can survive in varying water conditions. Because mosquitofish are surface feeders, they are extremely efficient mosquito predators. Mosquitofish have been said to consume upwards of 80-100 mosquito larvae per day, and are capable of quickly populating a source if conditions are favorable. The fish are placed in a variety of permanent and semi-permanent fresh water habitats, including dirty swimming pools, water troughs, and ponds.

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Biological mosquito control methods protect the public from mosquitoes and the transmission of mosquito-borne diseases. Mosquito biological control agents include a wide variety of pathogens, parasites and predators. A biological control agent used by the District is Gambusia affinis , the mosquitofish. Mosquitofish are small live-bearing minnows closely related to the common guppy.

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Ryan Jacobsen, a fourth generation farmer, talked about the history of farming and agriculture in Fresno County, California. He spoke about what makes the... read more

Ryan Jacobsen, a fourth generation farmer, talked about the history of farming and agriculture in Fresno County, California. He spoke about what makes the San Joaquin Valley a good place for agriculture and shared some of the challenges farmers face.

C-SPAN's Local Content Vehicles (LCVs) made a stop in their "2017 LCV Cities Tour" in Fresno, California, from January 7-13 to feature the history and literary life of the community. Working with the Comcast cable local affiliate, they visited literary and historic sites where local historians, authors, and civic leaders were interviewed. The history segments air on American History TV (AHTV) on C-SPAN3 and the literary events/non-fiction author segments air on Book TV on C-SPAN2. close

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Why Do I See So Many Squirrels, but I Can't Find Any Stegosauruses?

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Why Do I See So Many Squirrels, but I Can't Find Any Stegosauruses?

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This resource was created to provide resources to teachers in the transition to NGSS. This resource bank continues to grow and evolve on a daily basis.

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Home Getting Started Tending Your Garden Theme Gardens Grant Opportunities Sustainability Curriculum Kindergarten First Grade Second Grade Third Grade Fourth Grade Fifth Grade Sixth Grade Seventh Grade Eighth Grade Classroom Cookbook Evaluation Organizations Supporting School Gardens Research & Publications Tips From Teachers Feedback & Suggestions

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What does 3 dimensional learning look like?

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Next Generation Science Standards: Introduction to Three Dimensional Learning

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Mystery Science offers an open-and-go elementary science unit suitable for 4th and 5th grade covering Chemical Reactions & Properties of Matter

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Can you spot the trickster insects hiding inside the Smithsonian? Maddie Sofia goes behind the scenes to learn about many-legged mimics.

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Templates, sentence frames, and other resources relating to increasing the use of the domains of language in the classroom.

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Oil Spills Cleanup SPA Scoring Rubric .pdf

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IMPORTANT UPDATE:Effective July 1, 2020, the EEI Curriculum will be migrated to a password-protected SharePoint site. Here are the instructionsfor how to obtain access to the new EEI SharePoint site, for which you will need to have a Microsoft account(available to anyone). Contact us at eei@calrecycle.ca.gov if you need technical assistance with accessing the site.

The California Education and the Environment (EEI) Curriculum contains a wide array of resources to support your transition to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). The EEI Curriculum uses the environment as an authentic, engaging, and highly effective context in which students can more readily see the relevance of science and engineering to their lives. Although the EEI Curriculum was based on California's 1998 science content standards, it contains diverse instructional resources that, if thoughtfully integrated, can enrich lessons and units of study focused on California's NGSS.

California's new Science Curriculum Framework provides several examples of how the EEI Curriculum can be integrated into NGSS-focused instruction.

New! Inventory of EEI Curriculum Resources Spreadsheet

The EEI Curriculum includes a vast array of readings, photos, maps, information cards, and activities on topics ranging from air to water. While the EEI Curriculum wasn't written for NGSS, you can "harvest" EEI resources for your NGSS lessons. Access this Google Sheet and search for resources to add to your NGSS units of study. For example, if you teach 5 th grade and are looking for a reading about rivers, you could add a filter to search for units at reading level 5. Then add another filter to look for readings. Then search for the term "river." Likewise, you could search for all resources related to the word "woodland" by searching on this term. Keep in mind that photos in a 1 st grade unit may still be useful for high school teachers and vice-versa so feel free to search beyond your grade level. This spreadsheet currently includes resources from the EEI science units. We will add resources from the history/social science units by fall of 2019.

EEI/NGSS Correlation Spreadsheet

Now you can search for EEI Curriculum content to support NGSS Performance Expectations (PE's). Access this Google Sheet and sort by: NGSS grade level, PE, EEI Unit, or unit reading level. The spreadsheet includes a brief EEI unit description and hyperlinks to the EEI unit webpages and correlation guides.

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Next Generation Science Standards Correlation Guides

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The California EEI Curriculum is a natural fit for supporting the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). In the summer of 2013, we created a focus group of K-12 teachers and administrators who advised us on the content and format of our correlation guides. We are now posting drafts of the correlation guides upon their completion.

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Springdale Elementary Science [NonDistrict] - 3rd Grade

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K-5 Performance Expectations by Grade Level

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K-5 Performance Expectations by Grade Level

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NGSS Performance Expectations by Grade Level K-5

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3rd Grade Science Course | New Jersey Center for Teaching and Learning

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Thank you for being a big part of this community. To better support the initiatives around open educational resources in the state of Michigan, all resources on the Michigan Virtual Learning Object Repository (LOR) are being moved to #GoOpen Michigan(link is external) on September 30th, 2018. During the transition, our LOR will be moved to an archived state, not allowing new user registration or new content to be added. An email with more details was sent to registered users of the LOR in September. To make use of the great resources on the platform, we encourage you to create an account and add your own new resources to the #GoOpen Michigan platform(link is external).

Phenomenal Science is a regional collaboration between the Science, Mathematics, Technology center at CMU and the Great Lakes Bay ISDs to develop K-5 Science Units through professional learning.

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Include a complete curriculum for K-5 three-dimensional science instruction

Meet the Michigan Science Standards

Be free to all educators

Integrate science and engineering practices, and English Language Arts and Mathematics

Phenomenal Science is sponsored by Michigan Virtual University®, Michigan STEM Partnership and is supported by the Great Lakes Bay ISDs.

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Wildlife trail images and animal descriptions

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Wildlife trail images and animal descriptions

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The Zooniverse is the world's largest and most popular platform for people-powered research.

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There are thousands of species of insects in our world, and each are adapted to survive in their habitat. In this activity, students will learn what an insect is and what some of their adaptations are. Then they will put their knowledge into play by "creating" an insect that is adapted to live in their assigned environment.

Learn about what macroinvertebrates live in your school yard!

How does an animal's shape and color affect what habitat they live in?

Could eating insects be better for the environment than eating other sources of protein, like beef?

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Stay curious-every Thursday at NightLife. Sign up for event updates and exciting announcements.

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Learn about adaptation by creating an insect that can survive in a specific habitat!

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Engineering the Playground SPA - Student Version (3rd grade Engineering).pdf

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