Seal Web: Your Guide to Interactive Mapping in the Examination of our Mammal Friends Throughout Our Region
 

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Each Author Has a Different Perspective, But The Same Goal

 

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New York State - Bureaucratically closest to the local school districts, teacher, and students.
a. Age Groups - 3 general groups: Elementary, Intermediate, and Commencement
b. Topics - 5 Physical Setting and 7 Living Environment topics on Science as a portion of 7 Integrated Math, Science and Technology standards

National Resource Council - 3 age groups; 7 science topics
a. Age Groups - K-4, 5-8, and 9-12
b. Topics - Inquiry, Physical, Life, Earth and Space, Technology, Social Perspectives, History

Association for the Advancement of Science - 4 age groups, 12 topics, subtopics
a. Age Groups - K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
b. Topics - Science, Math, Technology, Physical, Living, Human as Organism, Humans in Society, A Designed World, A Math World, History, Commonalities, Human Mind; each with subtopics

National Council for Geographic Education - no age divisions, 18 topics on 6 essential elements of Geography
a. Spatial Maps - organizing spatial information for analysis
b. Places and Regions - physical characteristics and human perceptions for grouping
c. Physical Systems - processes and human movements
d. Human Systems - ecosystems, culture, economics, cooperation and conflict,change
e. Environment and Society - society in a physical world of resources
f. Uses of Geography - interpret the past, predict and plan the future

Ocean Literacy - An Effort to Include the Oceans in our Understanding of the Planet.

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Ocean Literacy

 

 

 

Copyright 2010, David Stolarz, Graduate Center of The City University of New York Program in Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, 08/15/2010, Supported by the National Science Foundation GK-12 Fellows Program