Marine Activities, Resources & Education--Ponds

Contact Information

Phone: 510-642-5008

Email: lhsinfo@uclink.berkeley.edu

Street Address: Lawrence hall of Science, University of California
Berkeley, California 94720-5200

Last Updated: 11-21-2004

Compendium Resource

Reviewer Comments

General Content
"Culminates in an 'Ocean Week'."

Presentation
Needs graphic consistency and index.

Pedagogy
"Teaching strategies need to be modified according to target grade level."

Teacher Usability
"Requires some expensive equipment, such as aquaria."

"Lists excellent resources—how and where to get materials and what to do after using live specimens."

"In the process of being translated into Chinese and Spanish."

"Good background material."

Focus on Communities
"A marine-focused science curriculum."

Offers some connections to human communities.

EE Program/Resource ss Details

Provided by: Lawrence Hall of Science

Description: The Marine Activities, Resources & Education (MARE) teacher's guides are habitat-based curriculum guides. Each grade level focuses on one marine environment and offers background information, science and mathematics activities integrated with language arts, social science, and art, teaching strategies, connections to children's literature, suggestions for development of student portfolios, and additional resources. Draft editions of K—6 guides were reviewed for this compendium. The following guides were reviewed at the K—3 level: Ponds (2001, 240 p. approx.), a study of properties of water, characteristics and life cycles of organisms, environments and organisms; Rocky Seashore (1999 revised, 420 p.), a study of properties of water, tides, waves, rocks, seasons, adaptation, litter, safety, care and respect; Sandy Beach (2001 revised, 341 p.), a study of tides and waves, formation and transportation of sand, food chains and life cycles, litter, pollution and oil spills; and Wetlands (2001 revised, 317 p.), a study of tides, sedimentation, food webs, adaptation, bioaccumulation and habitat loss.

Program/Resource Type: Curriculum

Audience Served: K, 1, 2, 3

Cost: $45

EE Focus: Environmental Sciences, Nature Awareness, Plants & Animals, Water

Academic Focus: History/Social Sciences, Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Visual/Performing Arts

Counties Served: Statewide

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Report Card

Overall Grade
General Content
Presentation
Pedagogy
Teacher Usability
Community

B+
A-
B+
A-
B+
B+

Discipline Emphasis

Science
History/Social Science
Health
Mathematics
Visual/Performing Arts
Language Arts
Industrial/Vocational Ed.
Foreign Language