Focus on Michigan Forests
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Provided by: Michigan Project Learning Tree|Published on: December 12, 2024
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Synopsis
- This resource includes teaching tips for younger students, background information, and activity ideas for students to learn about Michigan's forests.
- Students can learn about old trees compared to young trees, decomposers, animal adaptations, animal habitats, leaf characteristics, tree characteristics, and tree rings.
Subjects: Biology
Authors: Michigan Project Learning Tree
Region: Michigan
Languages: English
Teaching Materials
Positives
- The Have a Successful Field Investigation page is a great resource for new educators to familiarize themselves with outdoor classroom management strategies.
- The illustrations provide additional insight for students and teachers.
Prerequisites
- These resources are listed as activities; however, the steps for the activities themselves are not in this resource. This resource strictly contains background information and worksheets.
- To do the activities in the classroom, teachers can use the activity descriptions as inspiration or purchase speciifc lessons from their site.
Differentiation & Implementation
- Before starting the activities, using the materials list as inspiration, students can do an upcycling project with cardboard to create personalized clipboards.
- Students can discuss how climate change and human activities impact Michigan's forests.
- For many of the activities, teachers can use the green words for a word wall or for weekly vocabulary words.
- Students can choose an endangered or threatened species to research and write a report about.
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