Agendas

Pre-Institute Meeting - June 7
IES SYEFEST Summer Institute – 10-day Tentative Schedule
IES SYEFEST Summer Institute – Daily agendas
School Year Sessions - Agendas

Worksheets and Instruction Sheets

Institute and Project Tasks
Field Equipment List available for open inquiries for Day 1
Institute Worksheet #1. Craft an argument for schoolyard ecology. Write a statement to your principal justifying schoolyard ecology for your class in the 1994-5 school year.
Institute Worksheet #2. List the resources you would like to acquire to support your schoolyard ecology teaching.
Institute Worksheet #3. SYEFEST STUDY - Marked Twigs.
Institute Worksheet #4. SYEFEST STUDY - Board Islands.
Institute Worksheet #5. SYEFEST STUDY - Airborne Particles & Organisms.
Institute Worksheet #6. Eco-Inquiry Lesson 1.4 Field Study Plan.
Schoolyard Ecology Teaching Resources Treasure Hunt form.
Institute Worksheet #7. Plan for Guided-Inquiry Lesson for Ecology Day Camp Kids on Day 7.
SYEFEST Book Review worksheet.
Institute Worksheet #8. Goals for the Coming School Year.
Institute Worksheet #9. Plans for Institute Task I.
Institute Worksheet #10. Plans for Institute Task II.
Instruction Sheet - Completing Institute Task I.
Institute Worksheet #11 - Reflections on Assessing Student Learning in Schoolyard Ecology.
Institute Worksheet #12. Planning for the coming school year.
Institute Evaluation form.
Stipend Request form.
Supplies Reimbursement Request forms.
School Year Worksheet #1. Planning for the Student Schoolyard Ecology Portfolios.

Copies of Completed Worksheets, etc.

Photocopies of lists of questions generated in question posing exercise on Day 1
Copies of each pair's or individuals completed Worksheet 1.
Copies of each of the three teams' completed Worksheets 3-5.
Copies of the completed Schoolyard Ecology Teaching Resources Treasure Hunt forms for St.John's school
Copies of each teams' completed Institute Worksheet #7.
Copies of completed book review worksheets.
Completed copies of each teams' Institute Worksheet #8.
Copies of completed Institute Worksheets #9 and #10.

Handouts

Table relating schoolyard ecology to NY state curriculum framework for mathematics, science and technology Handouts from Day 4:
Pitfall traps and pooters
Plaster casts of tracks and buried dead mice
How to press leaves
How to dry fall flowers
How to make spore prints
Making an insect collection
Sample blanket permission slip for schoolyard wildlife activities
Student safety rules
Materials from early version of Eco-Inquiry for food web concept map: organisms and other ecosystem components to cut out, and a sample ecosystem concept map
SNAP bibliography of useful resources (from Jacques Chaput, a SYEFEST teacher)
Insect Ecology Materials (Day 5, Laura Rogers-Castro, Connecticut DEP, Kellogg Environmental Center, Derby, CT):
Simple Experiments with Insects
Simple Insect Experiments with Pitfall Traps
Key to Common Adult Insect Groups
All About Ants
Types of Ants
Ant Detective Worksheet (Ranger Rick Copycat Page)
Bees Wax - The Newsletter for ESA's Youth Members, June 1994 Issue
Questioning in the Inquiry Process (Appendix B from something of Linda's)
Handouts about organisms in the classroom from Science and Children (Day 7):
Newts
Earthworms
Spiders as Classroom Pets
Crickets
Praying Mantises
Terrestrial Isopods
Centipedes and Millipedes

Handouts (Day 8):
Articles Linda passed out.
SYEFEST Resource Directory
Making a Sweepnet
Handouts for plant identification:

Peterson's tree and shrub field guide's Tree Key in Leafy Condition
Dichotomous Key for Frost Valley's Trees (Frost Valley Env. Educ. Center, NY)
Summer key to fifty trees (NY Coop. Ext. Pub. Know Your Trees)
Ridgewood [NJ] Public Schools Key to the Commoner Trees and Shrubs of NE America
Copies from Eco-Inquiry about assessment - pages 22-2, 38-40.
Handouts for School Year Session 3:

Grant application form and directions for earth preserve action grants
Understanding arthropod classification and identification, G. Dunn, Young Ent. Soc.
Copycat Pages from Ranger Rick: Observe an insect, insect trivia, insect bingo, insect picture pages
An inexpensive carrion beetle trap (design from Don Hall, one trap was given to each teacher)
Where insects spend the winter, Al Singer.
Secrets of the spider world, G. Dunn, Young Ent. Soc.
1994-95 Buggy Bookstore catalogue
Insects: Masters of Survival brochure from the National Park Service
Handouts from School Year Session 4:
Plans for house for Tree Swallow, Eastern Bluebird, Great Crested Flycatcher
LaMotte's Topsoil Tours featured in Science Activities
How to Do the Experiment, from Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology's Project FeederWatch program for a national experiment called Seed Preference Test
Sample "Dear Parent," letter about preparing children for outdoor winter studies
SYEFEST Activity - Animal Antifreeze - from Hope College SYEFEST
SYEFEST Activity - Seed Predator Detectives - from Hope College SYEFEST
Snow Terminology (English, Eskimo, Russian, Chipewyan)
How to Measure the Insulative Value of Snow (A. Cvancara, Exploring Nature in Winter)
Studying and Preserving Snow Crystals (A. Cvancara, Exploring Nature in Winter)
Mammals in Winter Chart (J. Lindelbach, Hands-on Nature
SYEFEST Activity - Terrestrial Hi-Lo (from Gainesville workshop)

SYEFEST STUDY Handouts

SYEFEST STUDY Handout and Worksheet 3 - Marked Twigs - a two-way comparison of growth, herbivory and transpiration.
SYEFEST STUDY Handout and Worksheet 4 - Board Islands - a study of colonization of microclimate "islands" of different sizes, shapes and/or locations.
SYEFEST STUDY Handout and Worksheet 5 - Airborne Particles & Organisms - sticky samplers in the schoolyard.
SYEFEST STUDY Handout ... Making Your Own Key.
SYEFEST STUDY Handout ... Buried Bags.
SYEFEST STUDY handouts ... Berlese Funnels (for School Year Session 2)

Readings

"Ecology" introductory section from Helen Ross Russell's Ten Minute Fieldtrips.
Eco-Inquiry
Lasting Lessons
Environmental Management Council directory

School Site Plans

Two versions of site plan for LaGrange Elementary School
Arlington Elementary School site maps (2)
Gayhead School site map
Site Plan for Traver Road Elementary School.

Miscellaneous

Participant List
Maps to the 7 schools with locations highlighted in yellow
IES Continuing Education Program fall '94 schedule.
Certificate of Completion.