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Discuss deciduous plants and plant structure: twig, bud, bud scale scar, bark and lenticels. Students choose a deciduous plant and complete the drawings and measurements on the worksheet. Wrap-up: share last year’s plant growth and discuss factors that affected the plants’ growth over the last year.
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Students answer questions about a plant chosen from the natural area (including measurements). Wrap up: Discuss students’ answers, prominent plant attributes/adaptations, seasonal changes, etc.
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Discuss different types of poems including stanzas, rhyme, etc. Students can review these poem examples to solidify content or prepare for their own writing efforts.
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Discuss food webs, producers, consumers (primary and secondary), decomposers and examples and evidence of each that we can find outside. Students search for the organisms on the worksheet and describe what they find. Wrap-up: share findings and summarize the food web at work in the natural area.
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Review Alberta’s provincial bird (great horned owl), tree (lodgepole pine), and flower (wild rose). Visit the wild rose shrub and the lodgepole pine and discuss their characteristics. Discuss the great horned owl and adaptations for winter. At each stop, students fill out the worksheet with their drawings. Record the temperature. Wrap-up: share cool facts discovered about Alberta.
