Connecting People and NatureTeacher's guide to hands-on environmental education activities for 5th and 6th grade students, written for use at Great Smoky Mountains Institute, but adaptable for use elsewhere. With the objective of connecting people and nature, lessons cover geology, orienteering, stream ecology, etc., plus lessons designed so students work cooperatively to solve physical problems. |
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Creative Expressions 918 | 9 |
Earth Quest 1932 | 19 |
Exploration 3344 | 33 |
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15 Minutes 20 Minutes adelgid adult animals Ask students Ask the students balsam woolly adelgid bark bear birds blindfolds boar brook trout Cable Mill Cades Cove cards challenge circle climax community CONCLUDING ACTIVITIES contour lines Discuss earth earthworms environment erosion explore feel feet flagging tape forest fraser fir Gather the group going grains of soil ground habitat hike insects land lead in procedures leaves lesson little creatures Little Greenbrier living logs look Minutes Explain Mountains National Park move nature plants predators procedures wrap questions rabbit red wolf river rocks schoolhouse sheet shelter signs of wildlife sinkholes Smoky Mountains Smoky Mountains National species station stream survive tagged teachers Tell the students things topographic map trail tree Tremont twigs types valley vegetation walk Walker Sisters Walker Valley winter Woods course