iBiomes for Schools and Districts
Benefits
Support Eco School Programs
Support your Eco School program all year around while having fun. iBiome games let students learn about biodiversity and sustainability through a unique, play-based, hands-on experience.
Holistic Approach for STEM
Boost your STEM curriculum by introducing students to biology, ecology and environmental literacy. Springbay games prepare students to be champions of the environment.
Involve Students in Sustainability Policies
Help students understand why school boards are committed to the environment and sustainability by giving them an engaging experience. Empower them to live in environmentally conscious ways.
ALIGNS WITH CURRICULAR STANDARDS
For Canadian Science Curricula
iBiome series aligns with Common Core Standards and Next Generation Science Standards.
Help your students establish strong scientific reading skills at a grade 3-8 level.
Introduce your students to ecosystem interaction and dynamics to provide a foundation for future biological concepts.
Focus on Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics curriculum.
Common Core Standards
- RST.6-8: Key Ideas and Details
- RST.6-8.3 Follow precisely a multistep procedure when carrying out experiments, taking measurements, or performing technical tasks.
- Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
- RST.6-8.10By the end of grade 8, read and comprehend science/technical texts in the grades 6–8 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RST.6-8.8 Distinguish among facts, reasoned judgment based on research findings, and speculation in a text.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RST.6-8.7 Integrate quantitative or technical information expressed in words in a text with a version of that information expressed visually (e.g., in a flowchart, diagram, model, graph, or table).
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RST.6-8.4 Determine the meaning of symbols, key terms, and other domain-specific words and phrases as they are used in a specific scientific or technical context relevant to grades 6–8 texts and topics.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.5.2 Determine two or more main ideas of a text and explain how they are supported by key details; summarize the text.
Next Generation Science Standards
- 5-LS2-1 Develop a model to describe the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment.
- MS-LS2-1 Develop a model to describe the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment.
- MS-LS2-3 Develop a model to describe the cycling of matter and flow of energy among living and nonliving parts of an ecosystem.
- MS-LS2-4 Construct an argument supported by empirical evidence that changes to physical or biological components of an ecosystem affect populations.
How Educators Use iBiome Series
Environmental Education
- “Content and focus on ecosystem relationships bridging with human impact”
- “Manipulation of the ecosystem is not something we are able to do in the field without something like the games”
- “Love the pollution aspect, hands-on with technology always captures the students’ attention& engages them”
- “Brings an understanding of the environmental impact of humans”
- “Perfect for ecosystem unit on sustainability”
STEM Programs
- “Help students have another exposure to the science of Biodomes”
- "Understanding food chains/food webs"
- “Help my students learn the complexities of biodiversity that is difficult to replicate”
- “Gives them hands-on practice! To better understand abstract predator/prey foodweb/chain”
- “Help students understand more about ecosystems and food webs”
Flipped Classroom
- “Engagement, matches students’ attention span, interest”
- “A way for kids to show what they’ve learned and present their knowledge in a fun, interactive way”
- “Do what can’t be done in classroom. Students learn through investigation”
- “Bring ecology to life”
- “Give an engaging piece to a topic that can be difficult to bring a hands on aspect to a regular classroom”
- “Active learning! Fun!”
