Release v1.8 Dear IntoScience customer, We are pleased to announce the release of IntoScience version 1.8. This major release will include brand new activities covering content on ecosystems. This material will replace the existing Food Chains and Food Webs topic with new interactions, improved images and an all round better experience. We’re also publishing a suite of lesson guides in a new ‘walkthrough’ format. Each guide will step you through an activity page-by-page, with screen captures, suggested answers and descriptions of important actions. These new lesson guides will also give you some tips on class discussions and ways to extend those more eager students. Release 1.8 will also include the usual bunch of bug fixes, and an improved ability to save inquiry points in real time, rather than on leaving a topic. We’ve also made a change to how our system responds to certain errors, making it more unlikely you’ll be inconveniently kicked out in the middle of a session. Sincerely, The IntoScience Team IntoScience is an inquiry-based 3D learning resource aimed at the Australian Curriculum: Science for Years 7 and 8, English science curriculum Key stage 3 and USA and Canadian middle school. To bring you the best content and make IntoScience as reliable as possible, we are constantly making improvements. A release is an update to the online program that includes new content, improvements to existing features and fixes to the inevitable problems that occur as a result of a rapidly changing digital world. If you have any concerns or feedback, about the changes we’ve made, please let us know. Regards, Sasha Flanagan IntoScience Specialist 3P Learning C: (315) 238-5119 Email: [email protected] NEW FEATURES • Ecosystems: a topic exploring the natural world • Downloadable lesson guides • Google analytics implementation, to broadly measure the use of IntoScience • Better error reporting systems IMPROVEMENTS • Improved worksheets and worksheet answers • Improved error reporting systems • Users are no longer immediately logged out when a connection is lost • General optimizations for a more reliable, smoother experience Note: Ecosystems replaces Food Chains and Food Webs IntoScience has been generating content for nearly five years. In that time, we’ve continued to learn a lot about how to make activities as engaging and as educational as possible, and keep the science up to date. The original Food Chains and Food Webs topic had some great interactions, however we felt we could do better. While Ecosystems is an improvement, updating content unfortunately also removes any existing students’ results for Food Chains and Food Webs activities. As we move forward, we’re looking replace more topics with newer and better content, and finding the best way to preserve your students’ results is a vital part of that process. If you do experience any issues as a result of this change, please get in touch with your local representative and let them know so we can improve this process in the future.. Get wild with new activities on ecosystems! These seven activities will introduce students to the complex interactions that make up our natural world. • Levels of ecology Learn that ecosystems are diverse environments distinguished by unique interacting living and non-living components. • Biotic or abiotic? Explore the mix of living and non-living factors that can change over time and make up ecosystems. • Plant food: photosynthesis Discover the process by which plants convert the light energy from the Sun into chemicals they can use as food. • Stored energy: respiration Study the process by which living things release energy stored in food to drive all the chemical reactions required for life. • Energy in food chains See how food chains describe the movement of energy through an ecosystem. • Classifying consumers Understand that food webs are organized by diet and trophic positions. • Strange relationships Know that organisms interact in complex relationships defined by how they affect one another’s health and ability to survive. ALL NEW TEACHER GUIDES Walk through the activities with these new lesson guides Check out every page of IntoScience in these step-by-step guides and worksheets. Answers to the questions are made clear and simple, with short explanations on content and icons to show every interaction. Want to give your students a few fascinating facts to think about? Read out a Talking Point and get them discussing! Icons to highlight actions required Description of each page’s content and purpose Suggested answers to each task Suggested discussion points and extension tasks Locations of inquiry points in the activity
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