Save The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus. Help Save The ENDANGERED From EXTINCTION!
The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus Rare photo of the elusive tree octopus The Pacific Northwest tree octopus (Octopus paxarbolis) can be found in the temperate rainforests of the Olympic Peninsula on the west coast of North America. Their habitat lies on the Eastern side of the Olympic mountain range, adjacent to Hood Canal. An intelligent and inquisitive being (it has the largest brain-to-body ratio for any mollusk), the tree octopus explores its arboreal world by both touch and sight. Map of estimated tree octopus maximum range, including spawning waters Tree octopuses have eyesight comparable to humans. The reproductive cycle of the tree octopus is still linked to its roots in the waters of the Puget Sound from where it is thought to have originated. Why It's Endangered Tree Octopus hat from 1923(Click to enlarge.) The possibility of Pacific Northwest tree octopus extinction is not an unwarranted fear. How You Can Help.
Super3 Research Process. Questioning Toolkit. Essential Questions These are questions which touch our hearts and souls.
They are central to our lives. They help to define what it means to be human. Most important thought during our lives will center on such essential questions. What does it mean to be a good friend? If we were to draw a cluster diagram of the Questioning Toolkit, Essential Questions would be at the center of all the other types of questions. All the other questions and questioning skills serve the purpose of "casting light upon" or illuminating Essential Questions.
Most Essential Questions are interdisciplinary in nature. Essential Questions probe the deepest issues confronting us . . . complex and baffling matters which elude simple answers: Life - Death - Marriage - Identity - Purpose - Betrayal - Honor - Integrity - Courage - Temptation - Faith - Leadership - Addiction - Invention - Inspiration. Essential Questions are at the heart of the search for Truth.
21CFP - The Fluencies. Bloom's Digital Taxonomy. Thoughtful Learning: Curriculum for 21st Century Skills, Inquiry, Project-based Learning, and Problem-based Learning. Inquiry is based on questions, but not all questions are created equally.
Big questions open up big spaces for information, while little questions open up little spaces. The size of the answer is predicted by the size of the question. Suppose that a bug specialist (an entomologist) comes to speak in your Life Science class. After giving a presentation, the entomologist opens the floor for questions. Note what happens when students ask little questions instead of big ones. In the left column, four different students ask little questions, and they get barely a trickle of information from the entomologist. Students need to recognize simple to more complex questions: Do- and be-verb questions often evoke yes-or-no answers. Note how different types of questions lead to different levels of answers on Bloom’s Taxonomy.
Inquire: A Guide to 21st Century Learning includes a whole chapter on asking questions. Creative questions: Why do we call it Germany instead of Deutschland? Click to Print. Education - K12 Thinking Tools. Five Activities for Fostering Critical Thinking. Being a science teacher trained to appreciate inquiry teaching, content area reading, and conceptual change theory; being an avid reader of science fiction; being a movie and tv fan; and being an explorer of the internet, I have collected a few items that I consider useful for fostering critical thinking.
Many ideas will do triple duty in that they also create teachable moments, and frequently motivate students to learn more. I want to say that they enable more effective classroom management, and in some ways they do. But, I have found that hands-on teaching requires its own set of classroom management skills and so I do not offer the ideas as a panacea for controlling a difficult class. Try this software for creating graphic organizers and concept maps. Mind Map Software Foster Imagination for Writing 1.
Poisson rouge dans un aquarium © Gilles Cohen Source: fotolia.com, a source of royalty-free images for which you pay only $1-3/image. Consider this picture. World Class Education: Watch this video: Critical Thinking. : PBS LearningMedia.