Teachers and parents across the country are seeking meaningful ways to educate students at home.
BSCS Science Learning is responding to this need by releasing seven new citizen science lessons that middle and high school students can do independently, or as a class when technology allows.
Each lesson includes do-at-home inquiry activities using data from citizen science projects hosted on FieldScope. Students interpret graphs or maps, or both, and figure out what the data means. In the process, students become increasingly confident in working with data and using visualization tools. As a bonus, each lesson presents an optional opportunity to get outside and participate in a citizen science project!
These seven student-directed activities were transformed from a new set of citizen science lessons that BSCS developed for classrooms. We call these new classroom materials Invitations to Inquiry--and they will be freely available soon. Stay tuned for the official launch this spring!
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