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Tammy,
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DragonflyTV
| Investigate This
Where can I find "Investigate This" on the web site? And
where do I find the "results" for graph practice?
DragonflyTV
| Investigate This...Reply
Hi Jan, Find
the “Investigate This” activities by clicking on the navigation
button for “Try This”, on the left side of the DFTV home
page. You will see several kinds of activities, including the “Investigate
This” section, containing four activities to which students
can contribute data. On each of those activities pages, you can
click to “View Results” without submitting data of your
own, and see the graphs of the data that has been submitted so far.
You can also select criteria for changing the graph display, such
as age of the respondents, their gender, or which state they are
from. In this way, the user can investigate whether there are differences
in the results submitted by 9 year olds compared to 13 year olds,
say, or those submitted by girls compared to boys. The graphs change
daily as new results are submitted, so you can look for changes
over time. If you have further questions, feel free to send an email
to dragonflytv@tpt.org.
DragonflyTV | SciLinks
from NSTA
DragonflyTV has a partnership with the National Science Teachers
Association to help you find more science content resources related
to themes in DragonflyTV episodes. Coming to this Web site in April,
2002, you will find SciLinks icons at the end of each Explore DFTV
investigation. When you click on the link, you will find a list
of Web resources related to that show's science theme.
DragonflyTV | Project
starters
Investigation starters can be found in the Do It Get To It
portion of our Web site. There are 12 simple activities there, with
printable instructions. Help your students turn these activities
into genuine investigations. Then invite your students to submit
their findings to DFTV!
DragonflyTV | Teacher's
Guides
Watch the January, February, and March issues of Science Scope
(middle school level) and Science and Children (elementary
level) magazines from the National Science Teachers Association
for the DragonflyTV Teacher's Guides. You'll find summaries of each
episode, starter questions to get a discussion going with your students,
and challenge cards with investigation ideas related to the show.
You can also find these guides on our Web site, downloadable in
PDF format.
DragonflyTV
| We want to hear
from you!
If you're a classroom teacher using DragonflyTV shows, teacher's
guides, or Web materials in your classroom, we want to hear from
you. Tell us what works, and what doesn't, and how we can make DragonflyTV
a better classroom resource. Send a message telling us how DragonflyTV
works for you. We are especially interested in whether you are seeing
a difference in your students' investigations and Science Fair Projects.
Click on the "Post Your Own Message Button" above and
join the DragonflyTV Teachers Network. And watch this space for
other classroom activities provided by DragonflyTV's science content
director.
DragonflyTV | Graph
Practice
The "Investigate This" portion of our Web site allows
your students to collect data and submit it to DragonflyTV. Or,
you can just "View Results" and look at the results received
so far. These are real graphs of real data, and they make great
opportunities for your students to read and interpret graphs. Further,
you can challenge your students to come up with sound conclusions
from the results presented there. You can also sort the results
by age, sex, or location of the participants. This might lead to
its own investigation. Give it a try, and send a message telling
how this graph-reading exercise worked in class.
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