assignment
Using selected websites on plants, trees, and aquatic plants, write a cohesive paragraph on your assigned plant with an introduction, at least THREE supporting detail sentences, and conclusion illustrating your research. Your paragraph will be for an interpretive sign at a nature reserve.
NOTE: Make sure not to copy someone else’s (the website’s) work - put it in your own words
Questions to answer:
Instructions:
NOTE: Make sure not to copy someone else’s (the website’s) work - put it in your own words
Questions to answer:
- What is the root system?
- What is the foliage?
- How does it produce food?
- Deciduous or coniferous?
- What can we use the plant for?
Instructions:
- Log into computer
- Open Chrome, log into Gmail
- Open Drive
- Create document
- Click “share” and share with your teacher
- Open a new tab and go to Mr. Tripp’s website to see links for your assigned plant
- Read appropriate website and find important information about your assigned plant
- While reading, take point-form notes on your Google Doc
- Use the “questions to answer” to guide your data collection
- When finished collecting information, write a paragraph using your point-form (jot) notes as a guide for your supporting sentence
- Log out and go to your next session
Grade four links
- Sedge
- Asters
- Bulrushes
- Blueberry
- Bunchberry
- Northern Blackcurrant
- Canada Buffalo Berry
- Choke Cherry
- http://plantwatch.naturealberta.ca/choose-your-plants/choke-cherry
- http://www1.agric.gov.ab.ca/$Department/deptdocs.nsf/all/agdex4143#Choke (at the top click on ‘Choke Cherry’)
- Common Labrador Tea
- Canada Anemone
- Fire Weed
- Saskatoon Bush
grade five links
- Cattail
http://dnr.wi.gov/org/caer/ce/eek/veg/plants/cattail.htm
http://www.nwplants.com/business/catalog/typ_lat.html - Cow Parsnip
http://www.nwplants.com/business/catalog/her_lan.html - Bluejoint Reedgrass
http://www.brettyoung.ca/images/file/PTR-webfiles/native-speicies/bluejoint-reed-grass.pdf
- Marsh Marigold
https://www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/m/marmar18.html
http://www.luontoportti.com/suomi/en/kukkakasvit/marsh-marigold - Northern Bed Straw http://plantwatch.naturealberta.ca/choose-your-plants/northern-bedstraw/ http://www.luontoportti.com/suomi/en/kukkakasvit/northern-bedstraw
- Shrubby Cinquefoil
http://www.nwplants.com/business/catalog/pot_fru.html
http://www.riverpartners.org/resources/riparian-ecology/veg-wildlife-habitat/ecological-tolerances/sandbar-willow.html
- Scouring Rush
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equisetum_hyemale
http://www.illinoiswildflowers.info/grasses/plants/scouring_rush.htm - Shooting Stars
http://www.nwplants.com/business/catalog/dod_hen.html
http://search.eaglelakenurseries.com/11050003/Plant/2303/Shooting_Star - Silverberry (wolf willow)
http://www.pfaf.org/user/Plant.aspx?LatinName=Elaeagnus+commutata
http://plantwatch.naturealberta.ca/choose-your-plants/wolf-willow/ - Duckweed
http://www.fcps.edu/islandcreekes/ecology/duckweed.htm
http://www.aquariumlife.com.au/content.php/390-Lemnoideae-Duckweed - Peat Moss
http://www.bio.brandeis.edu/fieldbio/Survival/Pages/sphagnummoss.html
http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/sphagnum_moss.htm
grade six links
- Trembling Aspen
- Beaked Hazelnut
- Balsam Fir
- Balsam Poplar
- Black Spruce
- Lodgepole Pine
- Jack Pine
- Engelmann spruce
- White Birch/Paper Birch
- White Spruce
- Green Alder
- Larch Tamarack
Photo by tsg1 / CC by CC0 Public Domain