A Nature Walk is a fantastic way to get students interested in their environment. What types of flora and fauna can you see? How does this flora impact your life? Do you affect the flora and fauna around you? Plants may seem like immobile, sedentary, boring organisms but when you stop and take a look you see the adaptations of defense, offense, and even camouflage that make plants very interactive in their habitats. Today, being a warm February day in Texas, I took my students outside to collect some data.
Three types of adaptations of local plants, 3 different types of leaves: using a picture classification sheet for reference and to collect various types of leaves. Tomorrow we are going to create a dichotomous key with the various samples we collected throughout the day. An active, mobile learning experience that continues into a dichotomous key and classification activity. Plus, we got to walk around outside where they got to blow off some steam and get some exercise at the same time.
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