Personalities in the Woods
The Lafferty Nature Trail Project 
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A Learning On-Line/Project Arrow Activity by Howard Taylor

Answer the Questions, or Do the Projects
Either take notes or try to remember what you see while on the "Nature" Trail walk
(CARL SANDBURG STUDENTS)

1.  List as many things on the trail you can find in the area within one class period?

2.  Organize your things into at least three groups:  living, non-living, geological, ecological-- or even another group if you think of one.   Leave a space or two between each "thing" listed.

3.  Next to each "thing" you listed describe their role in the "nature trail" environment.

4.  Choose two living things from your list and write a description of how each interacts with each other in the "nature trail" environment.  This description could be in story form with pictures to illustrate it.

5.  Choose one living thing on your list and draw a diagram of its life cycle.

6.  Create a food chain using at least three "living" things from your list. 


7.  Look for
decomposition and locate decomposing objects along the trail.  Explain how this decomposition occurs and the benefits of it for the nature trail.

8.  Look for pollution on the trail.  What kind of pollution can you see?  Where does it come from?  What could be done to stop this pollution.  Does this pollution harm the animals and plants that live in the trail.

9.   Choose a tree or geological feature in the woods and tell about how it is important to the trail and the woods.  Why could the feature or tree be described as a "Personality on the Trail."
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