All posts from Holly Pousett

  • Choose a tree or a shrub and collect measurements including: height, circumference, and length or buds/leaves. Students tally plants of the same species found in the garden and graph their results. Wrap up: compare students’ answers and discuss the different types of plants found in the garden.  

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  • Students explore the schoolyard to find tallys of different types of plants. Students must then convert the tallys into decimals. Wrap up: Discuss findings, conversions from tallys to decimals, the relationship between decimals and fractions, etc.

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  • Students explore and discover what types of plants and animals exist within the schoolyard’s ecoregion. Wrap up: Take up students’ answers as a class, discuss why your ecoregion may differ from other ecoregions.

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  • Students explore the school’s natural area to find 3 different plant specimens and answer the questions on the activity sheet. Wrap up: Discuss different specimens found, recurring features/adaptations, what other plants might grow at or near the school, etc.

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  • Discuss erosion, evidence of erosion and causes of erosion. Students search for and describe erosion in the schoolyard. Describe the location of the erosion. Wrap-up: tour the schoolyard. Students share one example for each type of erosion.

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