"I feel that different country and different color, it is not different people."
Tohru Sugiura
The Fulbright Master Teacher Program is designed to extend and enhance the exchanges initiated in the FMF Teacher Program. It brings elementary, junior high, and high school teachers from Japan and the U.S. together through visits and on-line activities in spring and summer. These shared experiences enable those educators to help their students develop and conduct collaborative research using the internet during the succeeding academic year. Students in participating schools will join international on-line conferences as concluding activities. The program provides opportunities for teachers and students to explore the possibilities of on-line collaboration, cross-cultural learning and the development of international curricula. It provides them with new ways of approaching education as a whole.
Understanding our relationships with each other and the earth
Understanding the ecosystem
Understanding human impacts and responsibilities
We share our planet with all the other people of the earth.
We are responsible for life on earth.
We are building the future.
We can find ways to work together to help the ecosystem be healthy.
Life depends on naturally occurring physical and chemical processes
There are flows of air, water, sunlight and minerals in the ecosystem which keep life going. These activities produce natural balances through cycles.
Pollution is any addition to these natural flows which is harmful to life processes.
Ecosystem damage is any activity which reduces these cycles in ways that harm life processes.
We are constantly taking things out of the natural ecosystem and adding other things to it, so it is easy for us to pollute or damage the ecosystem even without knowing it.
By learning together we can come to understand what the natural ecosystem needs.
By learning together we can understand our impact on the ecosystem and each other.
By learning together, we can find ways to make our earth a healthier and happier place.
2003-2004 Bugs and Soils Project
Becky in Japan 2003 Includes daily/weekly updates and messages from Becky!
Japanese Teachers in Madison, Wisconsin
Three Educators From Japan Visit Madison and Lincoln School March 2002
Pothole Page Year long investigations of life at a wetland
New Pothole investigations 2002
Last update: June 30, 2003
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