Keystone Weekly
volume 3, issue 26        April 8, 2002

This week's Key Points: *Process Circus Colloquium Scrapbook,* *Web Pick of the Week,* and *Awesome Science!*
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Process Circus Colloquium Scrapbook
http://www.keystone.fi.edu/circolloq.shtml

On February 28, 2002, Keystone participants gathered at The Franklin Institute to engage in a colloquium that focused attention on a variety of process skills central to doing inquiry science.

These educators jumped right into activities designed to highlight particular process skills; reflected on the specific nature of those skills and the roles they play in student's learning; and thought about how to help students develop specific skills by redesigning portions of classroom activities and by purposefully focusing museum visits or online time. Visit the page, and take a look at how they spent their day.

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Get involved! Earth Day is two weeks away, and now would be a great time to plan an earth-centered activity with your students. At the site above, along with lots of information for adults, you'll find a Teacher's Corner section ( http://www.earthday.net/howto/teachers-corner.stm) that offers free resource guides and neat ideas for creating some Earth Day activities, as well as links to existing Earth Day events.

You can also find some more Earth Day educational resources from the EPA here:
http://www.epa.gov/earthday/resources-education.htm

And don't forget the Curricular Companion resources!
Environments, Habitats, and Ecosystems:
http://www.keystone.fi.edu/cc_ehe/index.shtml

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Awesome Science!
How Females Choose Their Mates
http://www.sciam.com/1998/0498issue/0498dugatkin.html

As spring bursts forth all around us, now is an especially appropriate time to examine the scientific mechanisms that seem to guide females' selections of mates. Across the spectrum of creatures, it's more complex that you might imagine. Learn more about why females are choosy, and what it is that they're likely looking for.

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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 9819641.
Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

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