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How can we be positive leaders in our community? (SITES (Weaselhead Flats,…
How can we be positive leaders in our community?
SITES
Weaselhead Flats
Douglas Harkness school yard
Ann & Sandy Cross Conservation Area
Pineridge Community
CURRICULUM CONNECTIONS
SCIENCE
Essential Questions: Why are trees and forests important to our communities? Why are trees and forests important for human survival? What can we do to protect trees and forests?
General Outcome:
Describe characteristics of trees and the interaction of trees with other living things in the local environment.
PoS Outcome:
Describe the role of trees in nutrient cycles
and in the production of oxygen.
Activity: Create their own version of the cycles.
Pos Outcome:
Identify general characteristics that distinguish trees from other plants, and characteristics that distinguish deciduous from coniferous trees.
PoS Outcome:
Describe kinds of plants and animals found living on, under and among trees; and identify how trees affect and are affected by those living things.
Activity: Create an interactive forest layer flap book
PoS Outcome:
Identify general characteristics that distinguish trees from other plants, and characteristics that distinguish deciduous from coniferous trees.
Acitivity: Sorting activity and brochure
PoS Outcome:
Identify reasons why trees and forests are
valued.
Activity: Create a KWL chart on prior knowledge of trees and forests. Use a mind map to gather student responses
PoS Outcome:
Describe and classify leaf shapes, leaf arrangements, branching patterns and the overall form of a tree.
Activity: Analyze leaves and needles/cones
Activity: Debate/ research
PoS Outcome:
Identify an issue regarding forest use, identify different perspectives on that issue, and identify actions that might be taken.
PoS Outcome:
Identify human actions that enhance or threaten the existence of forests.
PoS Outcome:
Identify human uses of forests, and compare modern and historical patterns of use.
ART
Essential Question: How can we use art to better understand the trees and forests in our world?
PoS Outcomes
: Students will use media and techniques, with an emphasis on more indirect complex procedures and effects in drawing, and sculpture.
Activity: Create paper sculptures of deciduous or coniferous trees
Activity: Use drawings to show understanding of forest layers and tree characteristics.
TECHNOLOGY
Essential Question: How can we utilize information about the importance of trees and forests?
Activity: Use technology to research important characteristics about an assigned tree.
Activity: Use technology to find information and engage in activities that teach us about the growth of a tree, the human impacts, etc.
MATH
Essential Question: Why is math important when it comes to researching trees?
Activity: Solving real-world problems about trees and forests
Activity: Go on a scavenger hunt to solve division problems to find a word (coniferous or deciduous) and create a drawing of it to show their understand and knowledge.
EXPERTS
Gardener
Arborist - from the City
Environmentalist
Forestry Professors
How can we show positive behaviour towards our environment?
What can we do to spread positivity in my community?
What impact do we have on the world?