Focus on Michigan Forests
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GradesK-8Biology
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Provided by Michigan Project Learning Tree
What it is
- 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.
Teaching tips
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.
From the scientist review
This resource presents background for activities to engage students in learning about Michigan’s forests. The information, with sources cited, is clearly organized and features numerous pictures and illustrations. This resource does not address climate change but is otherwise informative about forest background. This resource is recommended for teaching.
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