More Ideas

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Instruct students to do individual research reports on their

favorite forest animals and make clay models or dioramas.

2.

Invite a person from a nearby wildlife care center to speak to

the class. Speakers usually bring birds of prey or other animals

which have been injured and cannot return to the forest.

3.

Do an in-depth study of beavers or eagles by using the

accompanying reading material with your students. Tell them

to write a first-person story about a baby beaver, or have them

practice listening skills by imagining they are eagles as you read

the Imqgination Field Trip found in this lesson.

4.

Have students investigate their school grounds or yards, or go

on a forest field trip to see if they can identify habitat layers.

Discuss what kinds of wildlife might use each identified layer.

Go on a “wildlife safari” from the soil to the treetops.

5.

Use a computer drawing program such as MacPaint or MacDraw.

Have students create pictorial representations of forest layers.

They could create a key with symbols representing forest

components such as conifers, broadleaved trees, fallen logs,

snags (dead, standing trees), etc.

6.

Use a word processing program to create a Washington Forest

newspaper written by forest animals reporting on forest events.

Examples of articles might be: “Snag Falls to Forest Floor: Eagle

Loses Home” or “New Insect Recipes for Woodpeckers.”

7.

compare forest animals’ adaptations to winter and summer.

Are there differences? Research and chart your findings.

8.

Make animal “crazy” books. Have students draw and label four

animals, one on each page. Bind the book and cut pages in half.

When students turn the page they will see the bottom half of

one animal and the top half of another.

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