Terrariums Around the World

Hi Everyone.

I teach 9th Grade Environmental Life Science at a small school in Pennsylvania. Our class just finished a unit on ecosystems and decided to research, build, and observe terrariums. We would like to include other students to join in our terrarium project. Building a terrarium is a fun and educational way to apply key concepts about ecosystems. If you are interested in joining our terrarium project, send me an email and I will provide you with more information. This is our first attempt to collaborate with other classes and we are looking forward to it. We are expecting to make some mistakes along the way...but that's how we'll learn! The Terrariums Around the World website should be ready in about two weeks. Our thought is that each participating class will have their own page to share information, pictures, video, and data about their terrarium(s). Our hope is that students will comment and discuss the various terrarium themes, building materials, plants, and observational data on the site. We look forward to hearing from you.

Have a great day!

Marion Jacob and the 9th Grade Environmental Life Science Class

Tags: Environmental, Science, Terrariums

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Permalink Reply by Jill B on February 2, 2011 at 11:56pm

Marion, I teach gifted 5th graders and would love to participate. We are just starting our unit on ecosystems and will be designing a bio dome that will include a terrarium. This sounds like something my students would love.

Permalink Reply by Marion McDevitt Jacob on February 4, 2011 at 10:29am

Hi Jill,

I'm so glad you're interested. Things have been crazy at school this week because of the weather, but I wanted to thank you for your interest. I will get back to you over the weekend when I have more time.

Have a great day!

Marion

Permalink Reply by Aaron Maurer on March 3, 2011 at 7:04am

This could be something that might be of interest to my 4th and 5th grade gifted students. We are spending 4th quarter on an independent research project and this could be something that we tackle as a class. Please let me further details and project expectations when you have it up and running and I will share with my students to see if interested.

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