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The weird, wild, wacky and wonderful world of carnivorous plants: An enrichment course for children ages seven through nine
Abstract
A course on carnivorous plants is described. This course is offered annually at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater as part of The Young Scholars program for primary school students, ages seven through nine. The Blood Thirsty Plant series by the Garath Stevens Publishing Company is the course text. Class activities include plant propagation by means of seed, cuttings and division, the construction of a sundew model from pipe cleaners, making and eating butterwort bread, the construction of a venus flytrap puppet from a paper plate, the piecing together of jigsaw puzzles that contain images of pitcher plants in their habitats and then answering habitat riddles, and the acting out of the movements of a bladderwort trap through dance.
... Relatively little is known about primary student knowledge of carnivorous plants. Anecdotally, however, educators have noticed student interest in and enthusiasm for learning about carnivorous plants in informal settings (Golembiewski, 2005;Tunnicliffe, 2001). When asked if the Venus flytrap (VFT) is a plant, 36% of first graders in rural southeastern classrooms correctly classified it as a plant (Anderson et al., 2014). ...
In consideration of the potential of drawing and writing as assessment and learning tools, we explored how early primary students used these modes to communicate their science understandings. The context for this study was a curricular unit that incorporated multiple modes of representation in both the presentation of information and production of student understanding with a focus on the structure and function of carnivorous plants (CPs). Two science teacher educators and two first-grade teachers in the United States co-planned and co-taught a multimodal science unit on CP structure and function that included multiple representations of Venus flytraps (VFTs): physical specimens, photographs, videos, text, and discussions. Pre- and post-assessment student drawings and writings were statistically compared to note significant changes, and pre- and post-assessment writings were qualitatively analysed to note themes in student ideas. Results indicate that students increased their knowledge of VFT structure and function and synthesised information from multiple modes. While students included more structures of the VFT in their drawings, they were better able to describe the functions of structures in their writings. These results suggest the benefits for student learning and assessment of having early primary students represent their science understandings in multiple modes.
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Stevens Publishing, 1555 North RiverCenter Drive,
Suite 201, Milwaukee, WI 53212, USA, (out of print).
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1654-4; Butterworts: Greasy Cups of Death, ISBN: 0-
8368-1655-2; Pitcher Plants: Slippery Pits of No
Escape, ISBN: 0-8368-1657-9; Sundews: A Sweet
and Sticky Death, ISBN: 0-8368-1658-7; Venus Fly
Traps and Waterwheels: Spring Traps of the Plant
World,
ISBN
0-8368-1659-5;
Carnivorous
Mushrooms: Lassoing their Prey, ISBN 0-8368-
1656-0.
The Weird, Wild, Wacky and Wonderful World of Carnivorous Plants Workbook
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Wonderful World of Carnivorous Plants Workbook.
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Department of
biological Sciences, Upham Hall, Whitewater, WI
53190 USA, 16 p.
Bladderworts: Trapdoors to Oblivion
- V Gentle
Gentle V., 1996.-The BloodThirsty Plant Series. Gareth
Stevens Publishing, 1555 North RiverCenter Drive,
Suite 201, Milwaukee, WI 53212, USA, (out of print).
Bladderworts: Trapdoors to Oblivion, ISBN 0-8368-1654-4; Butterworts: Greasy Cups of Death, ISBN: 0-8368-1655-2; Pitcher Plants: Slippery Pits of No
Escape, ISBN: 0-8368-1657-9; Sundews: A Sweet
and Sticky Death, ISBN: 0-8368-1658-7; Venus Fly
Traps and Waterwheels: Spring Traps of the Plant
World,
ISBN
0-8368-1659-5;