Spring Woodland Activities
Goals
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HABITAT - Develop an
awareness and appreciation of:
-- the
vast variety of plants and animals within a woodland
-- how
plants and animals are part of an intricate web of life
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CLASSIFICATION - Trees with needles/ trees with leaves,
Animal groups,
Vertebrates/ Invertebrates
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ADAPTATION - Camouflage,
migration
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Activity:
List animals that live in a Massachusetts woodland.
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Activity:
What animals need to survive.
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List food, water, shelter, and space. Ask the students to describe why animals need these things and how a woodland
provides them.
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Activity:
Read a book about a woodland animal.
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Activity: Describe
a woodland.
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Ask the students to list the types of plants that they
expect to see in a woodland.
Have the students describe the woodland plants in a poem or
story. (Make sure deciduous and evergreen trees are included.)
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Activity:
Design a woodland food web
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Activity:
Research a woodland animal and write a short story based on that animal's
life.
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Activity:
Write lyrics for a woodland song, based on a familiar melody.
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Activity: Make
a woodland mural, assign each student a local plant or animal to make and
research.
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