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Visit to the
City Market in Kansas City by Elementary Science Teaching class

     
Handout       Impressions & Teaching Ideas from preservice teachers
Some assignments from 7th grade science at the Singapore American School (can be adapted to any setting):   Forest Projects   Plant Projects   Tapioca Projects   Eco-scavenger hunt  
Holiday meal (see comments for plants as symbols)   Botanical biography

And more:  Botanical Toys (see the
Lalang   arrow from a Singapore childhood   and
Native American Toys and Games like Cattail1 and Cattail2)
Main    Comment    Links    Print references    Papers   Flours   Corn   Philly The session
A delicious lunch at Thai 2000 where the cooks prepared kang kong we'd brought from the market.
More Teaching Ideas
7th grade scientists  study the "forest" at the Singapore American School.

Read about forests in Singapore in
"Rainforest Rojak" by Dr. S. Lum. Lum donated some native seedlings so we could  diversify our little jungle..

More on nature in Singapore:
NatureWatch
Habitat News
Plants and people on Dragonfly (see My Dad the Ethnobotanist)
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