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Eye of the Cyclops: Adventures In Scientific Exploration
| Grade Levels: | 3 - 8 |
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| Core Subject(s): | Science |
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Eye of the Cyclops features scientific explorations in the ecology of ponds, streams, forests, and backyards. A unique visual style places micro-adventurers with the organisms that inhabit these environments. Interacting with the organisms, the Cyclops crew makes fundamental discoveries about the nature of life. These adventures will excite students with the idea of conducting their own explorations with a hand lens or microscope.
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Backyard Biodiversity
The microexplorers discover that gardens support a community that includes herbivorous and predatory insects, pollinating insects, and a giant earthworm. They get a look at the animal’s internal physiology.
Length: 00:14:16 Usage rights: 3/13/2006 to 2/28/2036 -
Discovering A Forest Microcosm
The microexplorers are channeled into the pond outlet, where they tumble into a rapidly flowing stream and discover a world of aquatic insects adapted for life in flowing water.
Length: 00:12:43 Usage rights: 3/13/2006 to 2/28/2036
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