| Purpose: | To increase the students' descriptive writing skills through observations
To apply botanical nomenclature |
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| Season: | Early fall, spring, summer |
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| Materials: | Leaves from four different common trees (one leaf for each student),
paper, pencil, clipboard, paper bag, Data Sheet(optional) |
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| Procedure: |
- Have each student take a leaf from the paper bag, find the other
students with the same kinds of leaves, and group themselves
accordingly.
- Each group writes describing words for their leaf. Encourage the
students to use precise language.
- Have students put the leaves back together in a pile. Give each
group a leaf description paper made by one of the groups.
- Have the groups read the descriptive words aloud, and find the
leaf.
- Assign designated areas for each team.
- each team chooses one designated tree in the area and writes a
description of the leaves - WITHOUT PULLING THE
LEAVES OFF THE TREE.
- Trade descriptions. each team tries to find the correct tree.
- Estimate the number of each type of tree located at Miller
Springs.
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| Questions: | Which words were helpful in finding the correct leaf or tree? |
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