Crayfish in the Classroom

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Crayfish in the Classroom

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Running Time: 3m 48s
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In this video segment from Teaching Middle School Life Science, teacher Tracy Polte talks about experimenting with live animals in her fifth-grade classroom. She explains why she thinks working with animals is valuable for her students, the precautions she takes to ensure safe conditions, and why she thinks it is important that students relate experiments like this one—measuring the speed of crayfish—to something in real life. Polte later reveals another aspect of her teaching style, which encourages students to come up with their own experimental questions, materials, and methods for collecting data.
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You may find it useful to watch this video with a group of your colleagues and then discuss it together.
  • How might providing students with direct access to animals in the classroom enhance their learning experience?
  • What concerns might keeping animals in the classroom raise for you as a teacher?
  • What do you think Polte has done with these students to ensure that their work with the animals is safe and educational?
  • Have you had live animals in your classroom? If so, what questions about animals did your students investigate in your classroom? Which questions were successful? Which were less successful?
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