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CHAMELEON CONDOS

Chameleon Condos uses critter habitats to foster and promote science inquiry for elementary through high school classrooms, science fair projects, and homeschooling. Teach using a highly student-engaging activity!

Overview
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The 76 pages include chapters on stimulating interest in science, building the basic 5-bottle condo, variations including the 10-bottle, 9-bottle, 18 bottle a and b, mini-condos, caring for your critters (anoles, crickets, ants and spiders), preparing students for doing investigations, creative problem solving and critical thinking, integrating science into other areas, design and problem solving challenges, and more.
Table Of Contents
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  1. Chameleon Condos: Stimulating Interest In Science

  2. Building the Basic 5-Bottle Condo

  3. Parts List: (for a 5-bottle condo)

  4. Step by Step Directions

  5. Variations to the Condo

    • Ten-Bottle

    • Nine-Bottle

    • Eighteen-Bottle (Version A)

    • Eighteen-Bottle (Version B)

    • Mini-Condos

  6. Caring For Your Critters

    • Chameleons

    • Crickets

    • Feeding Tubes for Crickets

    • Art Colony

    • Spiders

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7. Preparing Students for Doing Science Investigations

8. Creative Problem Solving and Critical Thinking

  • How to Begin

  • Observation Logs

  • SSCS & Critical Thinking in Action – Ant Study

9. Integrating Science Into Other Subject Areas

  • Putting It All Together

10. Design and Problem Solving Challenges

  • New Designs Created by Students

  • New Designs and Creative Design Award

Condo Variation Diagrams
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5 Bottle Variation
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9 Bottle Variation
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18 Bottle Variation
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