Manatee ID Card Game Student activity to practice authentic science process skills
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The Manatee ID Card Game is an activity that helps grade 3-9 students develop process skills used by wildlife scientists. The activity accompanies <Blinded for Review>, one of a series of books for grades 3-5. An online activity plan accompanies the cards. The activity supports development of observation, analysis and design processes addressed in the NGSS and Indiana Science Standards across grades K-9.
The cards were developed by faculty and students at <Blinded for Review> based on tools used by manatee researchers in Florida to identify individual animals from the distinctive scars left by boat collisions and other injuries. Identifying animals helps researchers record the movement, reproductive history and health of manatees over time. Learners match photos of manatees with diagrams researchers use to document scar patterns in the same way new researchers learn the same skills. Students then transfer the skills to develop similar cards for identifying other species.
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