Reading Response 2 by Jennifer Sweat https://padlet.com/jjchris_1/91hfjcf7dpp Jennifer Sweat en-us 2016-06-09 14:35:53 UTC 2026-03-06 20:46:22 UTC hello@padlet.com Nature deficit disorder:  jjchris_1 https://padlet.com/jjchris_1/91hfjcf7dpp/wish/114224975 When kids stop going out into the natural world to play. 

Kids can tell you about the Amazon rain forest, but not the last time they went in the woods. 

Nature is more of an abstract than a physical reality. 

"Video games draw kids inside, but what pushes them inside is their parents' fear: of traffic, certainly, but also of abduction and abuse – stranger danger. Which is interesting, because in the US at least, the number of abductions by strangers has been falling steadily for the past 20 years. I'm not saying there's no risk out there 

Kids time is much more pressured in today's world with all of their extra curricular activities. 



]]> 2016-06-09 14:37:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jjchris_1/91hfjcf7dpp/wish/114224975 What is a Citizen Science: jjchris_1 https://padlet.com/jjchris_1/91hfjcf7dpp/wish/114226378 The site also provides research (informational text) on the particular species, checklists and observation forms.  You can be involved just briefly, with simple data entry and looking at the results, or you can be involved with complete lessons and engaging units for your students.

https://www.learner.org/


]]> 2016-06-09 14:47:24 UTC https://padlet.com/jjchris_1/91hfjcf7dpp/wish/114226378 Citizen Science in your Backyard:  jjchris_1 https://padlet.com/jjchris_1/91hfjcf7dpp/wish/114226925
Monarch butterflies only lay their eggs on milkweed, and caterpillars only eat milkweed. But humans don’t seem to like milkweed very much and are cutting it down for various reasons. Sometimes humans cut down milkweed in order to build houses, buildings and streets. Sometimes the milkweed is cut down when trees are removed to harvest the wood. In recent years there have been a lot of wildfires that have destroyed a lot of milkweed. Humans cut milkweed down in their own yards because it doesn’t smell very good or they think it is a weed. But these humans don’t realize that monarch butterflies need the milkweed in order to survive, and the monarch butterfly population is dwindling. When adult monarch butterflies migrate from their overwintering grounds in spring, the females begin a search for a suitable place to lay their eggs. 

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