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Susan Dundee, 7th grade life science
and 8th grade earth science teacher at Renfroe Middle School in
the City Schools of Decatur, wrote and submitted two grants and
developed five lesson plans. The grants were submitted to the Construction
for Instruction Program of the Decatur Education Fund. One grant
was for the construction and placement of blue bird boxes on the
school's campus, while the other was for the construction of a small
pond in the school courtyard. The bird box proposal will supplement
Dundee's 7th grade life science curriculum addressing ecology, animal
behavior, and vertebrate phyla. The pond proposal will allow her
life science students to study the ecosystem of the pond and courtyard
as a part of their study of ecology and animal behavior. The lesson
will benefit from water testing kits borrowed from the Emory University
Department of Chemistry.
For her 8th grade earth science classes, Dundee developed
two lesson plans for the study of meteors and other astronomical
and meteorological events from US history. These lesson plans integrate
historical events like the Perseid meteor shower of 1833, the production
of story quilts by an African American woman during the late 1800's,
and the science of astronomy.
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