Activities, Lessons, Fact Sheets

Activities, Lessons, Fact Sheets

• Animal Pictures For use in having students build a field page guide, or to be cut out and assigned one per student to figure out the food web by tossing a string from the top down to show predation---or from the bottom up to show bioaccumulation.
• Animal Tracks 1
• Animal Tracks 2
• Animal Tracks 3
• Animal Tracks 4
• Birds and Worm activity collection chart
• Bullseye Key to Compound Leaves
• Bullseye Key to Simple Leaves
• Dichotomous Key lesson using Candy
• Dichotomous Key to Trees, Online and Hardcopy
• Key to Macroinvertebrates WITH Pollution Tolerance Index
• Duck Curriculum for Youth from USFW
• Early Childhood Marginalia---an awesome pre-k activity booklet by an MSU professor of Education.
• Elk graph Each student is assigned a numbered chart segment to transcribe to scale. When all segments are complete a puzzle will be assembled to reveal a lifesize elk. Ideally---cut elk apart and hand each student one or two ¾ inch squares to replicate, so they don't know what the final picture will show. Students start with an 8.5 inch square of copy paper. Great math activity---or teambuilder.
• Environmental and Wildlife Law in the US by year extended
• Environmental and Wildlife Law in the US summary
• Forest Products in a Bag-a great icebreaker
• Frog Call chart
• GPS Lesson ideas
• How a Tree Grows-antique drawing and explanation
• Key to Michigan Trees 1
• Key to Michigan Trees 2
• Paper Plate Habitat
• Quick Facts Venomous vs. poisonous, predator vs. prey, is daddy long legs a spider, should you move a fawn or baby bird. Email the WILD Coordinator with cool facts to add.
• School Yard Safari A fun bingo game from Project Learning Tree that gets kids to engage their senses outside.
• Shoebox Track Box-directions for creating a box that will lure in small animals to leave their tracks in cocoa powder or sand.
• Thunderstorm chorus from Project WET Great finale for students or at the end of a workshop.
• Track Casting Directions
• Dichotomous Tree Key-hardcopy and online
• Tree Cookie Creation directions for making your own study sections of the trunk of a tree.
• Tree Cross Section Visual Aid
• Tree Products List
• Tree Ring Story reading pt. 1
• Tree Ring Story reading pt. 2
• Why leaves change color-antique handout