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Test Your Pets!
- Level: Middle School
- Topic: Animal Behavior
Description:
Teachers who own classroom pets are quite familiar with the upkeep responsibilities that accompany domesticated animals. However, many teachers overlook the unique opportunities that pets can provide to enhance science education in our classroom. This lesson is a low-tech physiology inquiry designed for use with classroom pets, specifically small rodents (e.g., mice, hamsters, gerbils). This particular inquiry examines the relationship between energy expenditure and weight gain, an issue with which all students are somewhat familiar. The protocol that has been outlined is loosely structured, providing room for class discussion and guided facilitation.
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Research Host:
Barbara Horwitz Ph.D.
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- Hardin Middle School
Hardin, MT
- 1999 Explorations in Biomedicine
- Summer Research Teacher
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- University of California-Davis
Davis, CA
- 1999 Explorations in Biomedicine
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| Criteria useful for reviewing
student-centered learning activities
include:
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In this
activity..
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| An inquiry level of 4 or 5 | 4 |
| An integrated Internet component | N/A |
| Assessments for content knowledge | Yes |
Assessments for process skills | Yes |
| Addressed the "ABC" rules for humans
and/or animal use | N/A |
| Use of multiple learning
styles and opportunities for all students | Yes |
| Proper safety precautions and
warnings | Yes |
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The Frontiers in Physiology
programs are developed and sponsored by the American
Physiological Society with additional funding from the
National Center for Research Resources (Science Education
Partnership Award #RR15251) at the National Institutes
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