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Oak leaves as they get older and ready to drop, one of the data points we observe in phenology.
Class Focus
Class Focus
The main focus of this course is to connect the ideas and concepts we learned in our summer program to an inquiry and action project of our choice. The inquiry portion of the class asked us to consider our own investigation and then to follow Dragonfly's QUEST methodology (as describe in the course reader) to design a study, collect and analyze data, draw conclusions and in general, to start learning about how to write papers describing original research. Additionally, there is an action component of this course which asks us to take our findings and ideas and create a way to share that with others.
Connection to my Master Plan
This project connects to my master plan because I was exploring a way to use large data sets to learn more about observations we are making to our local environments. Eventually, I am thinking about creating a course for teachers that will support them to connect to their own communities. Being able to find and manipulate data from a large community science collection will help me to add phenology observations to my own work as well as to incorporate these ideas into classes I teach. Since this project I have incorporated nature journaling prompts considering "How do we know it is spring" or "What do you notice about the different stages of leaf development on this tree?"
IAP Project: Using phenology data from Nature's Notebook look at change over time
IAP Project: Using phenology data from Nature's Notebook look at change over time
Paper: The effect of precipitation on budburst in three common California tree species using data from the National Phenology Network
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Action Project: Teacher Workshop
Action Project: Teacher Workshop
Link to Slides for Teacher Workshop
For my action project, I thought about how I could talk to teachers about the ideas in Nature's Notebook and also to find out from them how they are thinking about using students connections to their environment in their classrooms.
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