tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65509276776251950042024-02-07T01:09:15.898-05:00Green STEM LearningMaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03169378165629266312noreply@blogger.comBlogger133125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6550927677625195004.post-9729692337428797122018-06-13T16:29:00.003-04:002018-06-18T13:08:32.850-04:00Pollinators and Flowers in the Wildlife Garden: What Goes With What?<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-7db5c55e-faa8-fd14-0da2-b294ea81ef74"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This year, June 18-24 is</span><a href="http://pollinator.org/pollinator-week" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="color: #1155cc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">National Pollinator Week</span></a><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Arlington’s Central Library Organic Vegetable Garden and the Wildlife Garden are already buzzing with bees and other insects. This Wednesday’s</span><a href="https://library.arlingtonva.us/explore/gardening-and-urban-farming/about-our-garden-programs/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="color: #1155cc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Library Garden Talk</span></a><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> featured</span><a href="http://vnps.org/potowmack/events/native-plants-101-a-talk-by-laura-beaty-with-an-introduction-by-alan-ford/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="color: #1155cc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Laura Beaty</span></a><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (Virginia Native Plant Society) and</span><a href="https://armn.org/2017/04/30/armn-member-yu-hsin-hsu-receives-bill-thomas-award/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="color: #1155cc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Yu-hsin Hsu</span></a><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (volunteer manager of Central Library’s Wildlife Garden) showcasing both the beauty of the flowers, and also the interactions and relationships between pollinators and native flowering plants. Many pollinators have coevolved in symbiotic relationships with a specific plant over millions of years. A pollinator may need that flower’s nectar and pollen to thrive. At the same time a plant may have evolved defense mechanisms against herbivory. How do these complex dynamics play out in the ecological community of a garden? As a gardener, how can I help to grow these mutual connections between flowers and insects?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Grow a range of flowers for beauty in the garden and to provide essential food for pollinators that feed on nectar. Choose a selection of flowers, so that you have different kinds of flowers blooming from early spring to late fall. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Early Spring Flowers
</span></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline;">For example, in early spring, Golden Ragwort (</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline;">Packera aurea</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline;">), Bloodroot (</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline;">Sanguinaria canadensis</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline;">), and Moss Phlox (</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline;">Phlox subulata</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline;">) flower and have nectar that provides food. Here is a selection of spring flowers for part shade, each flower offers pollinators a nectar reward.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Some of these flowers might provide nectar for early-emerging</span><a href="https://entomology.cals.cornell.edu/extension/wild-pollinators/native-bees-your-backyard/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mining Bees or Ground Nesting Bees</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (often </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Colletes or Andrena </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">species). The bees then in turn pollinate the flowers as they travel from flower to flower. This spring, did you notice any mound-nests of a Mining Bee colony on a piece of bare earth? Mining Bees are solitary, but live in a colony. Once mated, the female Mining Bee is a single mother. She digs a nest on a slight slope, lays eggs, and feeds her larvae pollen. These bees are not aggressive and seldom, if ever, sting. They may fly around and be a nuisance for a few weeks while males (that can not sting) are engaged in mating displays. These Mining Bees do not harm vegetation. They may be pollinating a specific plant or perhaps pollinating a local fruit orchard. Remember to "let them be" as beneficial insects, even if this bee presence surprised you. The US has over 4,000 kinds of native bees, and many are ground nesting. Virginia has over 200 kinds of native bees in addition to the non-native Honeybee. That’s a lot of different kinds of bees. Some bees are ‘generalists’ and feed off several flower-types, some like the Bumble Bee and the Mining Bees are more specific.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This evening in early June, several</span><a href="https://www.slideshare.net/MaryVanDyke/bombus-impatiens-common-eastern-bumble-bee-by-mary-van-dyke" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bumble Bees</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> are choosing to forage on </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Penstemon digitalis</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline;">pink stripes on the petals. Although it is dusk, the bees are still busy foraging. In the photo, a female Bumble Bee worker is visiting a </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline;">Penstemon</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; vertical-align: baseline;"> flower. The Bumble Bee is lured into the flower by the nectar reward. She has pollen grains sticking to her body, and will visit many flowers and pollinate them as she goes.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Bumble Bee feeding on <i>Penstemon digitalis </i>at dusk<br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">in Arlington Central Library Wildlife Garden</span><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Mary Van Dyke</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the late autumn, the queen Bumble Bee mates. The queen overwinters and lays her fertile eggs in the spring. When she emerges in the spring she is hungry, and needs to eat pollen to get strong. The first emerging worker Bumble Bees are female. They collect nectar and pollen and make a bee bread to feed the other larvae, some of which will be males.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Does it seem like the bees visit some flowers twice?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What are the risks and rewards for the pollinator? </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These are topics for more science research: some flowers, such as the Penstemon can resupply nectar every few hours.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Each morning the Bumble Bee decides which flower type to go to, this adaptive behavior is</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flower_constancy" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">flower constancy</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">” or "</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap-lining" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">traplining</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">". </span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Bumble Bees are very selective pollinators, in that they effectively pollinate one kind of plant. </span></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Honeybees are not so selective. If you follow a Honeybee in the garden you will see it likely visit </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">different kinds of flowers, that may be not so efficient for pollination of one species of plant.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">In the sunny section of the garden, the Purple Coneflower started to bloom this week. </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Coneflowers are native to the prairies, and grow well here too. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Coneflower has noticeable external petals, that make an easy flat landing platform for beetles, bees and butterflies. Coneflowers are a composite flower. The Coneflower center, as in other composite flowers of the daisy family, including </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Rudbeckia</i> and Dandelion</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">,</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is made up of lots of different florets. Each of the many flowers in the center has nectar and pollen grains and are a favorite food for pollinators including bees, beetles and butterflies.</span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-ff9f6f20-fab6-7202-f5b9-792beb1e857f"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Over the next few weeks, the Bee Balm, </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Monarda didyma, </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">will be flowering. It is fragrant with scent of bergamot. Bee Balm has beautiful red flowers that we enjoy visually, that also attract hummingbirds and long-tongued bees to visit for the nectar rewards and to pollinate.</span></span></div>
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View of Pergola, Coral Honeysuckle and Buttonbush<br />
Garden Talk, June 2018<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On the pergola, I notice the red trumpet flowers of the Coral Honeysuckle (</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Lonicera sempervirens</i>)</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Coral Honeysuckle is one of my favorite plants in the garden. It has a very long blooming time, and can flower in succession from March to October. The Coral Honeysuckle co-evolved with hummingbird pollination and produces nectar and pollen from about April 15th, when it is ready to be pollinated by the arrival of Ruby-throated Hummingbirds. Coral Honeysuckle is the logo of the Plant NOVA Natives alliance, it is also the host plant for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemaris_diffinis" target="_blank">Snowberry Clearwing moth</a> that looks like a miniature hummingbird.</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If possible, don’t trim flower stems in the fall, leave as many seedheads as possible in place to overwinter, as the stems will likely will be sheltering bees and other insects</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Register your garden as a pollinator garden and "bee one in million" at <a href="https://kidsgardening.org/million-pollinator-garden-challenge/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://kidsgardening.org/million-pollinator-garden-challenge/</span></a></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Pollinator Partnership -</span><a href="http://pollinator.org/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="color: #1155cc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://pollinator.org/</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Guide to Native Plants for Northern Virginia -</span><a href="http://www.plantnovanatives.org/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="color: #1155cc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">www.PlantNOVANatives.org</span></a></span></div>
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Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03169378165629266312noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6550927677625195004.post-38396406603053629012017-03-02T18:41:00.001-05:002017-03-02T18:44:32.229-05:00Egg-cellent and Egg-citing Eggs<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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Check out the <a href="https://www.amazon.com/First-Book-Nature-Nicola-Davies/dp/140634916X" target="_blank">Five Reasons To Keep Chickens</a> with drawings of a Rooster and Hens from </span><i style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/First-Book-Nature-Nicola-Davies/dp/140634916X" target="_blank">A First Book of Nature</a></i><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><i> </i>by Nicola Davies and Mark Hearld:...
"5. Collecting eggs when they are still warm from under the hen is wonderful."</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you are working with older children, maybe one spring, you can incubate fertilized eggs and hatch chicks to give back to a local farmer?<a href="https://4-h.org/find/" target="_blank"> A 4-H Cooperative Extension office in your area</a> might be hosting the Embryology Project? </span></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">Or arrange to go visit a flock of laying hens, and maybe even gather a warm egg or two, at an educational farm near you?</span></div>
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<li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Peterson-Field-Guide-Eastern-Birds/dp/0395936098" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Peterson Field Guide Eastern Birds’ Nests</span></a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, 1998, by Hal Harrison</span></li>
<li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/First-Book-Nature-Nicola-Davies/dp/140634916X" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A First Book of Nature</span></a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, 2014, by Nicola Davies, illustrated by Mark Hearld - see page 52 Five Reasons To Keep Chickens</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">BBC Countryfile greeting card collection - including </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.abacuscards.co.uk/shop/collections-and-trade-shop/card-packs/bbc-countryfile/chickens-in-apple-orchard" style="text-decoration: none;">Chickens in Apple Orchard</a></span></li>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Blown eggs</b> from selection of birds at </span><a href="http://brackenridgeranch.com/" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Bracken Ridge Ranch</span></a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span><br />
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ostrich egg</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Small speckled egg from a Pharoah Quail</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lightly blue egg of an Araucana hen</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Long white egg from an Embden Goose.</span></span></li>
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<b style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Egg nutrition data, information and opinions on health benefits </b><br />
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Check various sources: the American Egg Board, nutritionfacts.org, nutritiondata.self.com and others. Protein, nutrient content is more clear, than some of the health benefits that are still being debated.</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The American Egg Board's Egg-ucation Experts including Lesson Plans for preschool and up at http://www.aeb.org/educators/lesson-plans-and-materials</span></li>
<li><a href="http://www.doodlesandjots.com/2013/03/28/egg-anatomy-printable/" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Egg Anatomy Printable by Ann Treacy</span></a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, 2013 Doodles and Jots,</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">print onto card or 4 mm plastic paper and color and fold up</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">diagram of egg anatomy cross-section</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ostrich - from </span><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ostrich_(PSF).png" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span style="text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wikimedia</span></a></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Quail - from </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.cacklehatchery.com/pharaoh-coturnix-quail.html" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">LINK</a></span></li>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Farm Field Trips in the NOVA Region</b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Educational farms with chickens include </span><a href="http://arcadiafood.org/?q=arcadia-farm-field-trips" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Arcadia Farm</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><a href="https://www.whitehall.farm/field-trips.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Whitehall Farms</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://new.1771.org/educationprograms/" style="text-decoration: none;">Claude Moore Colonial Farm</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mary Van Dyke is Garden Teacher at Brooksfield School, McLean, Virginia</span></div>
Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03169378165629266312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6550927677625195004.post-88510334670071112772017-02-28T21:12:00.000-05:002017-02-28T21:12:03.596-05:00Nests and Dens with Preschoolers<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It is fun to study bird nests and build ‘nests or dens’ with preschoolers. Remember it is <a href="http://www.birdwatchersgeneralstore.com/CollectingBirdNests.htm" target="_blank">not legal to collect birds’ nests</a> whether or not they are still being used (or reused) by birds. Over the years I have simply found one or two old <a href="http://www.learner.org/jnorth/robin/" target="_blank">Robin</a> and Cardinal bird nests in cut-down trees or fallen on the ground. For show n' tell I bring last year's paperwasp nest, a log-cabin birdhouse as well as pine-needle baskets and acorn cap nests with clay eggs made by my daughter. </span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Water Vole Card, Robin's Nest, Log Cabin Birdhouse,<br />Acorn Cap Nest, Pineneedle Basket Nest, Paperwasp Nest</span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />The preschoolers are interested to see the <a href="http://www.learner.org/jnorth/tm/robin/facts_nests.html" target="_blank">mud-building on a Robin nest</a> and the oval nest-shape with wider breast-end and narrower tail-end. How did the parent birds make the nest? Can you imagine the parent birds (mostly the mother Robin) taking turns to sit on the <a href="http://www.learner.org/jnorth/tm/robin/facts_eggs.html" target="_blank">eggs for two weeks</a> or so while they keep their eggs warm in the nest until the <a href="http://www.learner.org/jnorth/tm/robin/facts_baby_robins.html" target="_blank">baby birds hatch</a>? It’s interesting to compare the Robin’s nest with the more loose arrangement of sticks in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_cardinal" target="_blank">Cardinal’s nest</a>.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="American Robin Facts: Characteristics, Life Cycle, Ecology" border="0" data-pin-nopin="true" height="346" hspace="2" src="https://www.learner.org/jnorth/images/graphics/robin/LBirnbaum_01_240.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" vspace="5" width="400" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">American Robin Nest with Eggs by L Birnbaum <br />from the <a href="https://www.learner.org/jnorth/tm/robin/facts_eggs.html" target="_blank">Journey North American Robin website</a></span></td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Many twigs and small branches blew down in the school garden over the winter. We gather them up to tidy the grass. Why not build a larger nest or two together as a group for the stuffed animals and puppets: <a href="http://www.folkmanis.com/prod-67-1-86-1/squirrel-gray.htm" target="_blank">Squirrel</a>, Cardinal, Robin, and Mouse?
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />We gather together twigs and branches. With one group we decide to build individual animal nests, with other groups we discuss more and collectively design and build larger group-nests. </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">One construction is two-story and has a roof. Maybe the children can build a nest-shelter-den that is large enough for them too? How about keeping warm and making a pretend camp-fire. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />While outside we listen to the birds singing spring songs. I see a crow fly over with a twig in its beak. Building nests and dens is wonderful empowering fun cooperative play and learning for children of all ages. Today's garden activity building nests and dens reminds me of the shrub-playhouses, sheet-tents, olive and apple tree-climbing days of my childhood!</span><br />
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Peterson-Field-Guide-Eastern-Birds/dp/0395936098" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Peterson Field Guide Eastern Birds’ Nests</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, 1998, by Hal Harrison</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.birdwatchersgeneralstore.com/CollectingBirdNests.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Collecting Old Birds Nests is Illegal</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Bird Watcher’s General Store</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Virginia <a href="https://www.shopdgif.com/product.cfm?uid=2098097" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Department of Game and Inland Fisheries Wildlife Calendars</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Cardinal Audubon plush bird with sound - <a href="http://www.stuffedsafari.com/Plush-Cardinal-Audubon-Bird-with-Sound-p/wr-18221.htm?gclid=CjwKEAiA3NTFBRDKheuO6IG43VQSJAA74F77JRfGdP4FiIAapTkCYpzjsYK43gImqS1qokVcdx8DNRoC4krw_wcB&gdffi=0e6ca3dd0b78439d88dd8067460e01d8&gdfms=A4558AF9CCA94BD7B6E6E0CFE03F253A" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LINK</span></a></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Robin Audubon plush bird with sound - <span style="font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.stuffedsafari.com/Plush-Robin-Audubon-Bird-with-Sound-p/wr-18222.htm" style="text-decoration: none;">LINK</a>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Journey North - <a href="https://www.learner.org/jnorth/robin/" target="_blank">American Robin project</a></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/First-Book-Nature-Nicola-Davies/dp/140634916X" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A First Book of Nature</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, 2014, by Nicola Davies, illustrated by Mark Hearld</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">BBC Springwatch greeting card collection</span></li>
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<br />Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03169378165629266312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6550927677625195004.post-83215432822190152622016-11-30T18:04:00.001-05:002016-12-01T07:31:08.042-05:00Pinecone Coloring Sheet - and using LucidPress<div style="height: 360px; margin: 10px; position: relative; width: 480px;">
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is my first experiment using <a href="https://www.lucidpress.com/" target="_blank">LucidPress</a>. <br /><br />Here's My Pinecone Coloring Sheet.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is a fun activity as part of a lesson on pinecones, patterns and fibonacci math for preschoolers and up!</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.slideshare.net/MaryVanDyke/my-pinecone-coloring-sheet-greenstem">http://www.slideshare.net/MaryVanDyke/my-pinecone-coloring-sheet-greenstem</a></span></span></div>
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Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03169378165629266312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6550927677625195004.post-75902853167260984412016-11-20T15:45:00.000-05:002016-11-20T20:56:33.796-05:00WOW factor: How to Grow Bulbs Indoors and Out<span id="docs-internal-guid-71a377f9-836b-bc44-f94c-4c804c22d35d"></span><br />
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<span style="color: #003399; font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><span style="font-size: 15.3333px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="background-color: white; font-size: 15.3333px;">Here's the <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/MaryVanDyke/bulb-biology-the-paperwhite-narcissus-flower-project-and-hyacinth-hydroponics" style="color: #1e5faa; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">link to my current lesson plan on planting paperwhites</a></b></span></span></div>
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How about planting some fragrant Paperwhites or Hyacinths to brighten up your class?
Or buy Journey North's Red Emperor Tulips and plant outdoors?
You can track and log the tulip's growth and bloom-time as part of an easy citizen science project.</b></span></span></div>
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</span>Observation and inquiry</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> about flowering bulbs can be a great gateway introduction to plants and plant lifecycles throughout K- 5th grade.</span></h1>
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Cut carefully through a spare tulip bulb or red onion in class and you can clearly see that a bulb is modified leaves. You may see the central shoot that will have flowers and if pollinated will produce seeds. </span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Learn about dormancy. The bulb is dormant (not dead) and usually needs to go through a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">real or artificial winter</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to promote growth.</span></span></h1>
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Journey North Tulip Test Gardens - outdoor planting</span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For planting outdoors, growing a </span><a href="https://www.learner.org/jnorth/tulip/index.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Journey North</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Tulip Test Garden is an easy citizen science project for ages K and up. </span></span></h1>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You need to buy Red Emperor tulip bulbs. </span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Red Emperor tulip bulbs may cost a little more per bulb than other cultivars, but buying Red Emperor bulbs allows you to then leverage the educational linkage to the </span><a href="https://www.learner.org/jnorth/tulip/index.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Journey North</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> citizen science project. That is extra teaching value that may be worth the extra cost!</span></span></h1>
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Here’s a movie from </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BRUwqFL3CE" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">APS GreenScene</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> about planting Journey North Tulips with 3rd Grade students from Carlin Springs talking about the benefits - </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BRUwqFL3CE" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">LINK</span></a></h1>
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Growing bulbs in the ground outside<span style="font-weight: normal;"> has advantages, in that the bulb goes through natural winter cycle and will shoot in the spring. </span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">However if you grow bulbs in outdoor planters and containers you need to make sure the bulbs are not too cold - since the bulbs could die if over-frozen.</span></span></h1>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In early January, I wrap the containers with layers of newspaper and cover the layers with burlap and tie securely with string. Will that be enough insulation to keep the bulbs as warm as if they had been in the ground? I will need to unwrap the containers so the plants can continue to sprout later in the spring.
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Why are tulips and daffodils OK when planted in the ground? The bulbs may be dug up by rodents and squirrels when outdoors, but they will at least be kept warm with the earth's geothermal heat provided you planted the bulbs deep enough, and ground is not too cold for them! As with most outdoor experiments there are a lot of variables. It is difficult as a gardener to control for all of them!</span></h1>
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Planting bulbs indoors</span></h1>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For students to plant a bulb each, try Paperwhite narcissus bulbs with low scent (to reduce risk for people sensitive to the smell) e.g. I select the cultivar </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Inbal</i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></h1>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You can buy Paperwhite bulbs before Thanksgiving, and plant them in class before the winter holiday. Then students can take their potted bulb home as a winter gift and look after their plants during the holidays. Or you can aim to store the bulbs in a cool/dark place and then plant them with your class in early January, so students can then take the bulbs home and care for the plants during January and February.
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The 5th grade classes planted their paperwhite bulbs in a big pot or a customized clean milk carton - with drainage holes. Both ways worked in my parallel experiments. </span></h1>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For a class demo, in addition to each student growing a paperwhite at home, you can also grow a "class" Hyacinth bulb on a light window cill or in a very light place at school.</span></h1>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Then move the bulb and vase out to a light window cill. Keep the water refreshed and just below the basal stem.</span></h1>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Grown hydroponically over water, is a wonderful way for students to see the speed of growth and spread of the root system.
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As the plants grow, transfer the hyacinth bulbs from small vase to clean quart size recycled juice jars. Be careful of the delicate root system!</span></h1>
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When your bulbs flower</span></h1>
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Monocots and Dicots</span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All the bulbs: hyacinths, narcissus (paperwhites, daffodils, tete a tete) snowdrops, crocus, amaryllis, iris have “straplike veined leaves" and are monocots.
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Monocots</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> have seeds with one food part, mono-cotyledon. Note the symmetry of the monocot’s flowers - it is symmetry of 3 with 3 or 6 petals or three petals. Grasses are also monocots </span></span></h1>
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Dicots</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> include plants such as beans with seeds with two food parts, di-cotyledon. Early spring flowers such as spiraea, early blooming forsythia, aquilegia, apples and cherries are dicots.
You can see the flowers symmetry will be 5 or 8 (but not 3) and the leaves of dicots are veined.</span></span></h1>
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For this lesson, you can bring in an asssortment of flowers and have students study and sort them into monocots and dicots.</span></h1>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In summary here are some activities for students to do while their bulb plant grows:</span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #7f7f7f; text-align: justify;">As a postscript: </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #7f7f7f; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #7f7f7f; text-align: justify;">The tulips and daffodils in the wrapped containers - did really well. <br />I unwrapped the planters when the weather warmed, and the flowers looked great at the front entrance of the school, blooming in successsion for a really long time in the spring. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #7f7f7f; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #7f7f7f; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #7f7f7f; text-align: justify;">NOTE: I now use <a href="https://terraslatepaper.com/" target="_blank">TerraSlate</a> 'non-wood waterproof paper' in 7 mm or 10 mm to make outdoor signs and labels for schoolyards.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #7f7f7f; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #7f7f7f; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #7f7f7f; text-align: justify;">I am about to redo these bulb-planting class projects with K (Journey North Tulips) and 5th Grade (Paperwhites and Hyacinths). </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #7f7f7f; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #7f7f7f; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #7f7f7f; text-align: justify;">I am wondering if the tulip and daffodil bulbs in the planters have survived over the summer and may rebloom in the spring too?</span></span></div>
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In the autumn, collect easy-to-find acorn caps and fallen leaves around the schoolyard, garden and neighborhood. Play and create transformative works of art. Enjoy the diversity and bounty of the harvest season. This is basic integrative learning and fun creative Nature STEM for pre-K thru adult.</span></span></div>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Acorn Jewels or Acorn Gems</b></span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Acorn Berets</b></span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Use washable felt tip pens to color inside of acorn caps (one color per cap).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Fill acorn caps to brim with white acrylic glue e.g. Elmer's School glue (pour glue into muffin cases - use Q-tips for child to add glue to acorn).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Fill 13 x 9 x 2 tray or pyrex dish one inch deep with a pound of rice</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Carefully place acorn caps to dry upright in the tray of rice - and label each child’s row of acorn caps with a popsicle stick.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Leave for 3 days or so to dry.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Watch the glue dilute the dye from the felt tip pens and then slowly evaporate.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Acorns will transform into shiny colored Acorn Jewels or Acorn Gems!</span></li>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Large deep acorn caps from Red Oak family e.g. Black Oaks</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You need 16 acorn caps for each 4 x 4 memory game</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tight-weave jute burlap 18” x 15“ (e.g. obtainable from </span><a href="http://www.michaels.com/ashland-burlap-runner-tight-weave/10276103.html?cm_mmc=plasearch-_-Google-_-PLA-_-10276103&utm_source=GooglePLA&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Ashland&utm_term=Ashland%E2%84%20Burlap%20Runner%2C%20Tight%20Weave&utm_content=10276103&gclid=Cj0KEQiA-NqyBRC905irsrLr-LUBEiQAWJFYTj58FOBb96SPGYDZOY73noNryXcSl9liGMD75WThd4saAqgk8P8HAQ&gclid=TeSTer-123" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Michaels</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">) 18” x 10 ft roll makes 6 playmats)</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://decoart.com/glasspaint/gloss-enamels" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Deco Americana Gloss enamel</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in 8 colors - White, plus True Red, Bright Yellow, Bright Orange, Lavender, Festive Green, Calypso Blue
I mixed pink from the white and true red</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://decoart.com/cgi-bin/Products.cgi?DuraClear_Poly_Varnishes" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Americanan DuraClear Gloss Varnish</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (2 oz)</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">13 x 9 x 2” tray or dish with about 1/2 inch of rice (a pound of rice) for drying rack</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Organza bag in gold color, 7 x 5 inches for acorns</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Per playing set - make two painted caps of in each of 8 colors, reserve caps and make some spares too!</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After you paint each acorn cup stand it up in 13 x 9 tray with 1 inch deep rice. Two coats of gloss for each cap, plus three coats for yellow and orange, cover each painted cap with a coat of gloss varnish for extra protection.</span></span></div>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Use template to draw outline of "board" on the burlap.</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Acorn caps, use large flat 1 - 2 cm diameter acorns with spiky caps, for example from Sawtooth Oak trees</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Look at a guidebook to Nests and Eggs to be inspired and informed about the diversity of birds eggs color, shapes and patterns.</span></span></div>
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If your schoolyard has few seedheads in the autumn - then bring some in from elsewhere to increase "findability"</span></li>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">How do seeds travel? Do they float on the wind? Travel by animals?</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Seeds we eat: discuss what did you have for breakfast? coffee, beans, wheat, oats, nuts</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Bring in other seeds for students to study - including a tomato, cucumber, coconut</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Soak pound of lima beans for 2+ hours, demonstrate and give a bean seed to each student. Peel off the seed coat. Can you find the two food parts (cotyledons), and the seed embryo's root and shoot? The food in the cotyledon supports the first growth of the new plant</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Readings</b><br /><i>A Seed is Sleepy, </i>Diana Aston, Sylvia Long, for 3-5 grade </span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Fruit is a Suitcase for Seeds, </i>Jean Richards, for 1-2 grade </span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>One Tiny Seed, </i>Eric Carle for pre-K to 1</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">See my previous blog <a href="http://greenstemlearning.blogspot.com/2016/10/oak-trees-and-acorns-as-teaching-tools.html" target="_blank">Oak Trees and Acorns as Teaching Tools</a> for a discussion of teaching with oak trees, acorn biology and seed viability.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Here in the DC metro area on the East Coast of the US it is often the Year of the Acorn!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">On my walks around the neighborhood, I find that we have many shapes and sizes of acorns - and a large diversity of oak species (</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Quercus_species" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank">genus <i>Quercus</i></a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">).</span><br />
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<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Count how many acorns floated? How many sank? </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">How many acorns are viable? </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What percentage of the whole collection of acorns are viable seeds? </span> </li>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As I am teaching I highlight differences in patterns between the two major families of red oaks and white oaks. Red oaks have pointed leaves usually and white oaks are rounded. Note: acorn caps have spirals similar to pinecones, pineapples and sunflowers: the <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/MaryVanDyke/seeing-math-patterns-in-nature" target="_blank">familiar Fibonacci-like spirals</a> are a familiar pattern of how plants grow.</span><br />
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Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03169378165629266312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6550927677625195004.post-47479570475338310632016-07-01T19:36:00.000-04:002016-07-01T19:36:01.639-04:00Flower and Leaf Pounding<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Recommended flowers: Rose Campion, Coreopsis, Marigold, Lavender, Impatiens, Lobelia, Violets, and leaves from Parsley, Ferns, Japanese Maple</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Prepare for the class by pre-trimming the paper into trim paper into either:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> - bookmark sizes (say 2 ¼ inch x 7 inch) to fit in plastic sleeves</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> - or notecard size (say 3 x 8 inch) to fit in envelopes</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Note: Each student will probably make two or three samples.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Peel off all the tape. Colors from the leaves and flowers will have left a print on the paper.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Remove any flower debris that is still stuck to the paper.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Fabric:</b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Try flower pounding using a firm woven pale cotton fabric such as muslin instead of paper. Place the fabric over the flowers and leaves, and pound directly. Watch the color of the flowers and leaves come through the cloth. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Mordant: </b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Soak the cloth (or experiment with paper) in a salt or soda mordant solution overnight and then dry, before using. The salt/soda solution acts as a mordant for the pigment. Recipe for a yard of fabric is 4 T Alum, 3 T Cream of Tartar, 24 cups of very hot water, mixed together in non-reactive stainless steel or enamel bowl. Put in fabric, stir and leave for 30-40 minutes until cool. Dry in cool dryer or hang out, and iron flat before using.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mallets: $3.99 from Ace Hardware</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bookmark sleeves from </span><a href="http://www.clearbags.com/2-1-2-x-7-1-8-6-mil-poly-hanging-bookmark-sleeve.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.clearbags.com/2-1-2-x-7-1-8-6-mil-poly-hanging-bookmark-sleeve.html</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Other examples online</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Life Labs - The Fine Art of Flower Pounding - pdf from Art in the Garden page 189.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.lifelab.org/wp-content/uploads/Flower_Pounding.pdf" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.lifelab.org/wp-content/uploads/Flower_Pounding.pdf</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.greencirclegrowers.com/project-ideas-1/flower-pounding-note-cards" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.greencirclegrowers.com/project-ideas-1/flower-pounding-note-cards</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://buildmakecraftbake.com/2009/04/how-to-hammered-flower-and-leaf-prints.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://buildmakecraftbake.com/2009/04/how-to-hammered-flower-and-leaf-prints.html</span></a></div>
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Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03169378165629266312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6550927677625195004.post-2071389807791772212016-07-01T12:15:00.001-04:002016-07-01T12:15:14.092-04:00Two New Learning Labs Launch<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Two powerhouse websites, both called </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Learning Lab</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, recently launched to support pre-K-12 education with digital online resources.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The other <a href="https://learninglab.usgbc.org/" target="_blank">Learning Lab</a> is associated with the US Green Building Center and Center for Green Schools.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://learninglab.si.edu/" target="_blank">Smithsonian’s Learning Lab</a> is free, and <a href="https://learninglab.usgbc.org/" target="_blank">USGBC’s Learning Lab</a> is free until August 2016 and then by subscription.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Add both these resources to your teaching toolkits.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Check back as the resources grow. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://learninglab.si.edu/" target="_blank">Smithsonian’s Learning Lab</a> - a Virtual Fieldtrip to </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">Discover Create and Share</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I view the video introduction, c</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">heck out resources, and read threads related to <a href="https://learninglab.si.edu/news/partnering-reading-with-museum-resources" target="_blank">Pandas, Hot Air Balloons and Robots</a>.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
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<li><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 1.38;">How to link these and other reading resources to my K-5 outdoor lessons? </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 1.38;">How can I share these resources with students, parents and teachers? </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 1.38;">How about using the Smithsonian's collections of museum objects? </span></li>
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I click to <a href="https://learninglab.si.edu/news/exploring-essential-questions-with-a-group-of-objects" target="_blank">Exploring Essential Questions With A Group of Objects</a>, and <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">come across a beautiful collection of </span><a href="https://learninglab.si.edu/collections/tools-innovation/R998xYb5Lbjw4bHE" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">tools and innovation</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span><br />
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Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03169378165629266312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6550927677625195004.post-78924568129929463922016-06-02T08:20:00.004-04:002016-06-04T11:25:21.768-04:00Observation: Ants, Networks and Communication<span style="line-height: 19.32px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">By Mary Van Dyke</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; display: inline; line-height: 19.32px;">This afternoon, I take about 100 3rd Grade students out to learn about soil erosion in the schoolyard. We come across small holes and miniature-hills on the playing field. The kids scuff the dust. Thinking? About the heat, soccer? </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; line-height: 19.32px;">Bees? Ants?</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; line-height: 19.32px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At supper this evening, I watch tiny ants carry a part of a skipper butterfly's wing 20 feet or so across the concrete patio. First one ant on its own, then another tiny ant join in. The first ant gives up at a big 1/4 inch high twig. A third ant arrives and takes over, and manages to flip the wing over the twig, and then haul the butterfly wing another 10 feet or so across the concrete. </span></span><br />
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<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; display: inline; line-height: 19.32px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I need to read again EO Wilson and listen to Deborah Gordon on how ants communicate and whether they plan their trips? </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Deborah Gordon has devoted a lifetime to studying ant colonies, their networks and communication.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 19.32px;"> And I recollect a radioshow I heard a few years ago on AI, simple operations and swarm networks.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 19.32px;">It is interesting to watch the ants for half an hour or so on the patio - and I have yet to discover the nest or where they were going. As I clear away supper, I plan to watch the ants again tomorrow.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 19.32px;">The next day, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I find the ant's nest. It's a large colony in crack in the pavement and their main nest is under a flower pot. There is another trophy wing there, but not the skipper wing, and I see a dead fly. I am now intrigued to observe these ants over the summer!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;"><b>References</b></span></span><br />
<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; display: inline; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">EO Wilson</span><br />
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<li><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 19.32px;">Of Ants and Men, aired PBS September 30, 2015</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ants" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="The Ants">The Ants</a></i>, 1990, Harvard University Press, <a class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0674040759" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;">ISBN 0-674-04075-9</a>, Winner of the 1991 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Pulitzer Prize">Pulitzer Prize</a>, with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bert_H%C3%B6lldobler" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Bert Hölldobler">Bert Hölldobler</a></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_to_the_Ants" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Journey to the Ants">Journey to the Ants</a>: A Story of Scientific Exploration</i>, 1994, Harvard University Press, <a class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0674485254" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;">ISBN 0-674-48525-4</a>, with Bert Hölldobler</li>
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<span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; display: inline; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">Deborah Gordon - i</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">nterest in ants, networks, communication and AI</span><br />
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<li><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;">What Do Ants Know That We Don't<br /><a href="http://www.wired.com/2013/07/what-ants-yes-know-that-we-dont-the-future-of-networking/">http://www.wired.com/2013/07/what-ants-yes-know-that-we-dont-the-future-of-networking/</a></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px;"><a href="https://www.ted.com/speakers/deborah_gordon">https://www.ted.com/speakers/deborah_gordon</a></span></span></li>
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Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03169378165629266312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6550927677625195004.post-6366550394102489062016-05-19T10:41:00.002-04:002016-05-19T10:41:46.241-04:00Teaching Future Ranchers, Farmers and Decision Makers? Climate Change and the Water Cycle, USDA curriculum for 6th - 12th graders in the Southwest<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnp6OvBz_X2fGEANXzFHiNcDY-_lC2vGqkbSnFey6ZPj23oH_b_JKFS4Vo_wWUCKbeAx50d99GuZTLwTNNmbh_CqKz9pXmNdcEip2wQ9uUhhK357Bm7HzD6dRUikZmSB92qTWWpO2hh34/s1600/27016923222_5442fb5149.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnp6OvBz_X2fGEANXzFHiNcDY-_lC2vGqkbSnFey6ZPj23oH_b_JKFS4Vo_wWUCKbeAx50d99GuZTLwTNNmbh_CqKz9pXmNdcEip2wQ9uUhhK357Bm7HzD6dRUikZmSB92qTWWpO2hh34/s320/27016923222_5442fb5149.jpg" width="320" /></a><br />
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Reposting from <a href="http://blogs.usda.gov/2016/05/19/climate-change-and-the-water-cycle-usdas-southwest-climate-hub-launches-education-unit-for-6-12th-graders/" target="_blank">USDA Blog</a> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'Georgia Ref', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12.3664px; line-height: 18px;">Posted by </span><a href="http://blogs.usda.gov/author/bweaver/" style="background-color: white; color: #993300; font-family: georgia, 'Georgia Ref', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12.3664px; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none;" title="Posts by Albert Rango and Caiti Steele, Southwest Regional Climate Hub">Albert Rango and Caiti Steele, Southwest Regional Climate Hub</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'Georgia Ref', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12.3664px; line-height: 18px;">, on May 19, 2016 at 10:00 AM</span><br />
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Want to teach relevant, experiential projects on climate change and the water cycle to your teen future farmers, ranchers and decision makers?<br />Here is a new <a href="http://blogs.usda.gov/2016/05/19/climate-change-and-the-water-cycle-usdas-southwest-climate-hub-launches-education-unit-for-6-12th-graders/" target="_blank">standards-aligned experiential learning curriculum for 10 hours of projects on climate change and the water cycle </a>designed for 6th - 12th graders living in the Southwest.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'Georgia Ref', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.7405px; line-height: 18px;">"USDA has created a curriculum for teaching today’s students about climate change and educating tomorrow’s farmers, ranchers, and decision makers. The Department’s Southwest Regional Climate Hub has partnered with the Asombro Institute for Science education to build “</span><a href="http://swclimatehub.info/education/climate-change-and-water-cycle" style="background-color: white; color: #993300; font-family: georgia, 'Georgia Ref', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.7405px; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none;"><em>Climate Change and the Water Cycle</em></a><em style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'Georgia Ref', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.7405px; line-height: 18px;">,</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'Georgia Ref', 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.7405px; line-height: 18px;">” a scientifically rigorous education unit for 6th -12th grade students. Intended for both formal and informal educators, the unit includes 9 activities which can either stand alone or be taught over 10 instruction hours. These hands-on activities are designed to help the students understand the scientific concepts behind different elements of the water cycle, climate change, and how to analyze data and communicate results. "</span><br />
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<br />Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03169378165629266312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6550927677625195004.post-45242252771927227832016-05-06T11:07:00.001-04:002016-05-06T21:13:26.956-04:00Growing Green Community: APS School Garden Meetup at Carlin Springs Elementary School<i style="color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">By Mary Van Dyke for Green STEM Learning</i><i style="color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Between morning showers and an evening hailstorm, on a sunny afternoon the APS School Garden Meetup gathers in the garden courtyard of Carlin Springs Elementary School. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://landsandwaters.org/" target="_blank">Nonprofit partner Lands and Waters grow lettuce with an after school group</a><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-c5f9d6fd-8679-42e8-aa82-a3d374a18746"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In previous years, Carol’s job was also sponsored through the 21st Century Community Learning Centers federal after school grant, although now her position is funded through Arlington Public Schools. <span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 1.38;">In the courtyard we also admire the pond and learn about its history and how it is sustained. Artist, Liz Macklin, shows us some of her photos drawing in after school classes with students. </span>
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This low-cost arrangement is on loan from partners at Arlington’s </span><a href="http://offices.ext.vt.edu/arlington/programs/4h/" style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 20.24px; text-align: start; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">4-H</span></a><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 20.24px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-c5f9d6fd-867f-aa8d-60dd-c6ee9d5e5873"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">The big challenge was not building the grow light system, but how to care for seedlings at school? Young seedlings need attention, and maybe watering once a day. Here at Carlin Springs, Carol invited the Extended Day staff with a group of students after school to take care of the seedlings. The students are growing quick germinating seeds including sunflowers in recycled lunch containers and egg boxes. The system is simple. If the group wants to take it to the next level, they could perhaps get a timer to turn off the lights? Giving seedlings only 18 hours of light a day, and a dark rest period at night would help the seedlings grow to be less leggy. This experiment however, as it is, is already successful. The students and staff are engaged, and delighted with the learning process!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c5f9d6fd-867f-5bca-852f-0926d8525631"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c5f9d6fd-867f-fbd6-6c6a-574da7eb5d4e"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c5f9d6fd-8680-8f83-fcff-c7a70a01333f"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.38;">Pre-K Help Create Their Own Garden</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">We continue outside to pre-K’s new garden. The pre-K class brought the mulch to the garden, bucket by bucket and the stones one by one from the parking lot. What a wonderful teaching in collective team work. </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38;">Carol and Jeff describe other projects they have in mind for this area. Perhaps the area could be developed to include a vegetable patch and even a foraging forest?</span><span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 20.24px;">
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</span>Virginia Native Wildflower Garden partnered with Master Gardeners and Master Naturalists</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">Next we go to see the wildflower area, in the median at the entrance of the school. This area is now being looked after by students with the guidance of Master Gardener Nancy Davis and Master Naturalist, Joan Gottlieb. Together with students and volunteers, they have restored a VA native plant wildflower garden that was planted here several years ago by Master Gardener Judy Funderburk and others. This garden already has a long history and legacy - but it needs many hours of work each year to keep in good health and thriving - or the weeds simply take over. </span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: 14.6667px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; vertical-align: baseline;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c5f9d6fd-8683-614d-457c-f0467d1b8168" style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">Weekend Work Sessions with Families and Volunteers</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38;">We also discuss weekend work sessions at Carlin Spring Gardens. How frequently and how are they facilitated? Carol organizes a couple of work sessions, for families and volunteers in spring and fall on Saturdays. They usually run from 10 AM to 1 PM, then they serve refreshments. The parent organization sponsors pizza and the cost of some plants too. Usually 35 families participate, and Master Gardeners help guide teams. Perhaps one or two teachers will be there to help too, and someone liaises in Spanish-language.</span></span></span></h4>
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Flowers include: roses, iris, pansies, Virginia sweetspire and Stachys byzantina<br />
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Earth Day Every Day is at </span><a href="http://eepurl.com/bY2sFv" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-style: solid; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2c9ab7; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;" target="_blank">http://eepurl.com/bY2sFv</a></div>
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our host is</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Joan Horwitt, volunteer with the Program for Employment Preparedness (PEP) and President of Reevesland Learning Center. This afternoon’s tour is introduced by Margaret Chung, Principal at the Career Center. Ms Chung highlights the collaborative teaching and integrative experiential learning practiced at the Career Center, and their new initiatives in Sustainable Technologies and </span></span></span><a href="http://www.apsva.us/domain/5406" style="line-height: 1.38; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Arlington Tech</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.38; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PEP teacher, Rosemary Donaldson, shows us the work in progress on a new native plant garden to encourage more Monarch butterflies and other pollinators to feed on and enjoy the habitat. Students from the Sustainable Technology program are constructing the garden fence. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.apsva.us/site/Default.aspx?PageID=8777" style="text-decoration: none;">PEP students and volunteers</a></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> planted the garden, including Milkweeds for Monarch caterpillar food and nectar, as well as a selection of native plants to provide flowers with nectar and pollen from spring through to fall. There are now over 100 native plants here. This will be a wonderful showcase for the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.plantnovanatives.org/" target="_blank">Plant NOVA Natives</a> campaign. This year, the garden will be graced by many insect pollinators.</span></div>
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Joan Horwitt, volunteers each week to help PEP students practice life skills including horticulture. The Greenhouse is a great resource to the community. Margaret Chung, as principal of the Career Center, is very supportive of re-energizing use of the Greenhouse. Other staff, including Robert Johnson, Michael Cruse, Rosemary Donaldson and many others, have helped too, creating an environment for integrative learning and partnerships.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You can see many examples of the students’ work in the Greenhouse. There’s a tank of <a href="http://www.cbf.org/how-we-save-the-bay/programs-initiatives/virginia/grasses-for-the-masses" target="_blank">Grasses for the Masses being grown for the Chesapeake Bay.</a> In another area a new tank is being built for aquaponics: rearing Tilapia fish and growing greens.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Joan Horwitt Highlighting Micro-Geen Sprouts</td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Another project that the Career Center students are working on, in partnership with the Reevesland Learning Center, is to make compost bins and inspire others to compost. The compost bins are fairly small and made of timber with a hardware cloth lining. That way the bins keep vermin out, and the compost in. Students fill the bins with a mixture of food scraps from the Culinary Arts Students program and autumn leaves. This gives a good mixture of "greens and browns" (nitrogen- and carbon-materials). The compost mixture decomposes quite fast and at fairly high heat. Even on this cool spring day, the ambient temperature in the greenhouse is 85°, and the compost is probably around 120°. The finished compost is sieved to be fine. The students use their school-made compost and Promix to grow the micro-greens and find their own compost is already a great growing medium!</span></div>
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</span>Contact Joan Horwitt or Robert Johnson (robert.johnson@apsva.us) to order up a compost bin. The compost bins cost $65 each. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Please order yours now so the students can program in to make one for you too!</span></div>
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<li><span style="line-height: 1.38;">Monday April 4, 4- 5 PM, place to be confirmed</span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 1.38;">Monday May 8, 4- 5 PM at Carlin Springs Elementary School</span></li>
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<a href="http://eepurl.com/bS17oP" target="_blank">LINK</a> to March e-newsletter <b><a href="http://eepurl.com/bS17oP" target="_blank">The ComPOST</a> </b>at: <a href="http://eepurl.com/bS17oP" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-style: solid; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; color: #237a91; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;" target="_blank">http://eepurl.com/bS17o</a>
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Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03169378165629266312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6550927677625195004.post-66177599135972648362016-01-27T08:19:00.000-05:002016-01-27T08:30:53.783-05:00Green STEM Learning 2015 and Vision for 2016 in Support of an Environmental Literacy Coordinator for APSHere's the year end report for 2015 for my business Green STEM Learning, including work for clients Jamestown Elementary School PTA and Meridian Homeschool.<br />
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My cover photo shows Jamestown School yesterday. The Weeping Cherry Tree and Vegetable Beds are still under their blanket of snow! In the background, you see the big Willow Oak tree that is at the heart of the school's courtyard, and creates a wonderful shady place for classes to gather on hot summer days!<br />
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<strong> <a href="https://www.slideshare.net/MaryVanDyke/green-stem-learning-report-year-2015-by-mary-van-dyke" target="_blank" title="Green STEM Learning Report Year 2015 by Mary Van Dyke">Green STEM Learning Report Year 2015 by Mary Van Dyke</a> </strong> from <strong><a href="https://www.slideshare.net/MaryVanDyke" target="_blank">Mary Van Dyke</a></strong> <br />
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This spring and summer at Jamestown School, I'll work on some of the projects highlighted in the report. While the snow is melting, it's a good time for me to meet with teachers to plan the vegetable gardens, native gardens and student outdoor projects.<br />
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And for Meridian Homeschool Club this spring, I'll continue working with the older students on their year-long Earth Force/Caring for Our Watershed civic engagement project. A couple of weeks ago, we went outside and measured the trees at the church where we meet. Then we calculated the ecosystem services the trees provide with i-Tree Design. We also identified the invasive plants on the property: there's lots of English Ivy and Bush Honeysuckle. Next stage, the students are making a video for the church congregation and our partner schools in NM and PA. I don't yet know what the students will come up with as a solution to the issues they are finding, as the project is student-directed and we have a few months to go!<br />
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Other projects for 2016, include my continued volunteer advocacy for enhancing sustainability and outdoor learning coordination within the Arlington Public Schools.<br />
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<li>Why not invite the APS School Board to fund an Environmental Literacy Coordinator position? I spent a couple of snow days this week making an aspirational pitch deck for the job - as if the School Board had funded the position. So stay tuned! </li>
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<li><b>Please do write to the APS School Board <a href="mailto:school.board@apsva.us">school.board@apsva.us</a> with your comments in support of the APS <a href="http://www.apsva.us/cms/lib2/VA01000586/Centricity/Domain/29/SAC%20recommendation%2011202015%20%20Final.pdf" target="_blank">Science Advisory Committee recommendations</a> that include for cultivating integrative learning and also funding a <span style="color: #38761d;">Sustainability and Outdoor Learning Coordinator</span> position</b>.</li>
<li>A <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>Sustainability and Outdoor Learning Coordinator</b> </span></span>(aka an <span style="color: #38761d;"><b>Environmental Literacy Coordinator</b></span>) as recommended by the Science Advisory Committee could help to more effectively evaluate programs, and share standards-aligned curricula and best practices through a collaborative and integrative approach that facilitates more creative problem-solving opportunities for students outdoors!</li>
<li>There's other priorities for the School Board, including the capacity issues and needing more seats for students.<br /> </li>
<li>So now's the time to ask for a balanced budget to include for this sustainability and outdoor learning coordinator position.</li>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Mary Van Dyke, works part-time for Jamestown Elementary School PTA</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">as Visiting Horticulturalist, and as a volunteer she has interests in </span><span style="color: #666666;">coordinating outdoor learning </span><span style="color: #666666;">for schools in Arlington.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;">Mary serves on the APS Science Advisory Committee,<br />the APS Superintendent's Advisory Committee on Sustainability<br />and the Advisory Committee of NoVA Outside, <br />a regional alliance of environmental educators. <br />All opinions expressed in this article are the author's own.</span></div>
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Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03169378165629266312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6550927677625195004.post-50473022729970696622016-01-22T12:18:00.001-05:002016-01-22T12:18:35.127-05:00Winter Weather Lessons and Snow Learning<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here are some links to get you and kids learning about winter weather and ideas for learning while schools are shut due to snow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And reposting some other links of snow-related interest:</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.nps.gov/glac/forteachers/upload/Winter%20Ecology%20Teacher%20Guide%202010.pdf" style="color: #58595b; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">NPS: Winter Ecology Teacher's Guide (PDF)</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://sciencefriday.com/video/12/10/2010/growing-snowflakes-in-a-bottle.html" style="color: #58595b; text-decoration: none;">Growing Snowflakes In A Bottle</a> (video)</span></div>
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<a href="http://sciencefriday.com/segment/11/11/2011/cure-winter-blues-with-light-therapy-or-the-beach.html" style="color: #58595b; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cure Winter Blues With Light Therapy--Or The Beach</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://sciencefriday.com/segment/02/11/2011/cracking-the-cool-science-of-ice.html" style="color: #58595b; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cracking the Cool Science of Ice</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://sciencefriday.com/segment/12/04/2009/birdfeeders-and-evolution.html" style="color: #58595b; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Birdfeeders and Evolution</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://sciencefriday.com/segment/01/27/2012/ode-to-ice.html" style="color: #58595b; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ode To Ice</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://sciencefriday.com/segment/02/24/2012/secret-life-of-ice.html" style="color: #58595b; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Secret Life Of Ice</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://sciencefriday.com/video/12/31/2009/snowflake-safari.html" style="color: #58595b; text-decoration: none;">Snowflake Safari</a> (video)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://sciencefriday.com/video/01/27/2012/what-s-so-cool-about-frozen-water.html" style="color: #58595b; text-decoration: none;">What's So Cool About Frozen Water?</a> (video)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://sciencefriday.com/video/02/24/2012/secret-life-of-ice.html" style="color: #58595b; text-decoration: none;">Secret Life Of Ice</a> (video)</span></div>
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Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03169378165629266312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6550927677625195004.post-6916485599326581732015-12-11T22:30:00.001-05:002015-12-11T22:53:12.253-05:00Biodiversity and Outdoor Learning<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03169378165629266312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6550927677625195004.post-2461248774737725612015-12-11T21:08:00.000-05:002015-12-11T22:20:27.944-05:00Integrated Learning and Teaching in the Moment: Outdoors at Abingdon Elementary School<div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mark and Jordan share a brief history of their school garden, tips on their integrative teaching approach and garden maintenance, and some salient stories. Mark has been at Abingdon Elementary School a couple of years now and this is Jordan’s first year at the school and they are working together to bring experiential learning experiences to the children. A month ago, a teacher and class looked out of their window and saw a fox walking in the woods near the school. The fox then caught a rabbit right in front of the class’s eyes. Mark also found a family of bunnies in the garden. Such a direct and memorable experience for a class can be easily tied by a skilled teacher to the relevant grade-level curriculum for the students: in this case food webs, lifecycles, habitats, urban ecology and more.</span></div>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-90471c51-9429-fdb3-5b3d-a7fea2bc3dd3"><br /><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jordan takes K- 5 students out as often as he can to learn to the <b>Outdoor Science Lab</b> - aka <b>The Garden</b>. </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span></span></div>
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Help is much appreciated from parents and community. Mark as 3rd Grade Teacher takes out his students and also helps with coordinating garden maintenance and reclaimed the garden when he first arrived. This year he organized the very successful community clean-up their Green Apple Day of Service, that was filmed by Green Scene (and highlights service days at Abingdon, Discovery and Jamestown ES).</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvKirA0n4Ak" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">Andy Goldsworthy, the British sculptor and photographer, is famous for his meditative focus on the ephemeral in nature-based art. Think photos capturing instants in a process: melting snow circles in arctic light; leaves in spectral colors placed in a streamflow; rocks balancing.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Photo by Peggy Ashbrook<br /><a href="http://nstacommunities.org/blog/category/earlyyears/" target="_blank">http://nstacommunities.org/blog/category/earlyyears/</a></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Voices from the Land Album from the Readingzone Blog</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Voices from the Land, 2011, 2012</span><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">by Second Graders at Daniels Run Elementary School, Fairfax VA</span><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Displayed at NoVA Outside's School Environmental Action Showcase</span><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">April 9, 2015</span><br style="font-size: 12.8px;" /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Photo by Mary Van Dyke</span></span></td></tr>
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As Goldsworthy says, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"A lot of my work is like picking potatoes; you have to get into the rhythm of it."</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 1.38;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Photo of early work retrieved from <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/wiltshire/content/articles/2005/05/04/andy_goldsworthy_feature.shtml">http://www.bbc.co.uk/wiltshire/content/articles/2005/05/04/andy_goldsworthy_feature.shtml</a></span></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>NoVA Outside - a regional alliance of environmental educators in Northern Virginia</b></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 1.38;">Example of Voices Album at the Readingzone blog </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 20.24px;"><a href="https://thereadingzone.wordpress.com/tag/andy-goldsworthy/">https://thereadingzone.wordpress.com/tag/andy-goldsworthy/</a> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 20.24px; vertical-align: baseline;">and </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 20.24px;"><a href="https://thereadingzone.wordpress.com/2010/10/25/voices-from-the-land-workshop/">https://thereadingzone.wordpress.com/2010/10/25/voices-from-the-land-workshop/</a></span></li>
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Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03169378165629266312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6550927677625195004.post-73523619507078004762015-11-03T13:53:00.000-05:002015-11-03T13:53:03.513-05:00Green STEM Ed: Learning and Teaching<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Reposting of <b>Green STEM: STEM as It's Meant to Be</b> by Laura Arndt and Anne Tweed</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28.8px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Roland Quitugua, a leading scientist in the U.S. territory of Guam, stood before a room of 60 public school teachers, describing his tireless efforts to eradicate a devastating problem on the tiny island in the Western Pacific: the Coconut Rhinoceros Beetle....</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Reposting from: <a href="http://www.advanc-ed.org/source/green-stem-stem-its-meant-be">http://www.advanc-ed.org/source/green-stem-stem-its-meant-be</a></span>Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03169378165629266312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6550927677625195004.post-70619032126167060002015-10-18T18:40:00.001-04:002015-11-10T08:09:14.890-05:00Green Apple Day of Service - at Jamestown Elementary School<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Today is a beautiful crisp fall morning for our </span><a href="http://greenapple.org/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Green Apple Day of Service</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">at Jamestown Elementary School</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">!</span></div>
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<a href="http://greenapple.org/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Green Apple Day of Service</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is an initiative run by the Center for Green Schools at the US Green Building Council to help promote service learning in schools here in the US and around the world. </span><a href="http://greenapple.org/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Green Apple Day of Service</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> - like Earth Day is on a specific day - but you can schedule your event to suit your community. </span><a href="http://greenapple.org/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Green Apple </span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">website has plenty of how-to’s on organizing service events: flyer templates, web advertising, media toolkits, email signatures and yes, merchandizing too. We use the website and flyer to advertise our event - as a native plant habitat restoration in the front entrance area of the school. I look at the checklist to make sure our event planning is on track. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I select the native plants from </span><a href="http://www.plantnovanatives.org/" style="line-height: 1.38; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Plant NOVA Natives</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to be tolerant of the extreme conditions in our school garden and for beauty in the fall and spring as well as summer. </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 20.24px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> We also plant purple and yellow pansies for instant effect and beauty. </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">Some plants I bought at a market, most are donated native seedlings. Let’s hope these new plants will take root, and we and our native wildlife can enjoy their flowers and foliage over the next year or two.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">annual “weed-whacking and mulch” maintenance with the landscape crew as usual, augmented by another Green Apple Day, or</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">apply chemical weed-killers, or</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">mechanically remove the entire soil structure and redesign the whole front area to include a playground, or</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">These are only some of the options to consider: each comes with environmental and social pros and cons and issues. For example, we need to remember that chemical weed-killers are not allowed on school grounds. Inevitably each option comes with a price tag. While we work today we are visited by John, videographer from </span><a href="http://www.apsva.us/greenscene" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Arlington Public Schools Green Scene</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. John interviews many of the people here today about the event. Here is the link to his <a href="http://bcove.me/go853k2u" target="_blank">Green Scene film</a> compiling three schools Green Apple Days of Service - including Jamestown's. I enjoy chatting and meeting people too, and I come away with many impressions, including a </span><a href="http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/emeril-lagasse/dandelion-and-bitter-greens-with-fried-potatoes-and-warm-bacon-dressing-recipe.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pennsylvania Dutch recipe for eating dandelions with bacon dressing</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://bcove.me/go853k2u" target="_blank">Green Scene video Green Apple Days of Service</a> at Jamestown, Abingdon and Discovery ES</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.ext.vt.edu/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Virginia Cooperative Extension</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Article by Mary Van Dyke</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mary Van Dyke is <b>Visiting Horticulturalist</b> at <b>Jamestown Elementary School</b>, Arlington, VA, where she facilitates outdoor learning and the outdoor classrooms. Mary was recently recognized by <b>The Center for Green Schools</b> with their <b>Good Apple</b> award for her work promoting healthy, safe and sustainable learning environments.</span></div>
Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03169378165629266312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6550927677625195004.post-28356644140861483322015-10-05T11:16:00.003-04:002015-10-05T11:16:55.668-04:00Join us for "first Monday" monthly APS School Garden Meetups - today's is at Campbell Elementary School, Arlington, VA <div class="yiv5493649782gmail_default" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443214256372_465234" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; font-size: 18px; line-height: 29.25px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Visit <a href="http://campbellschool.org/campbell-outdoor-classroom/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #6eb43f; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">Campbell Elementary <span class="yiv5493649782class" style="box-sizing: border-box;">School</span>‘s Outdoor Classroom</strong></a> and Gardens and: </span></div>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">N</span>etwork with parents & staff</li>
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<br />This is the second APS School Garden Meetup, following up on the <b style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;"><a href="http://www.mindfulhealthylife.com/growing-green-schools-inspires-school-gardens-and-nutrition-programs/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #6eb43f; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">April 2015 APS Growing Green Schools event</a>. </b><br />Read about the<b style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;"> <a href="http://www.mindfulhealthylife.com/aps-school-garden-meetup-at-jamestown-elementary/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #6eb43f; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">first APS School Garden Meetup at Jamestown Elementary</a> </b>in June 2015.</div>
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<b style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;"><br />SAVE THE DATE: for the next School Garden Meetup at <a href="http://www.apsva.us/Domain/767" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #6eb43f; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Patrick Henry ES</a> <span class="yiv5493649782class" style="box-sizing: border-box;">School</span> Garden, Monday </b><b style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">November 2, 2015, 4- 5 PM</b><b style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;"> </b></div>
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Come to network, exchange best practices and learn about Patrick Henry ES’s Habitat and focus on Service Learning “Helping Hands”</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;"><br />Please join us for <span class="yiv5493649782class" style="box-sizing: border-box;">School</span> Garden Meetups </b></span><b style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">at other <span class="yiv5493649782class" style="box-sizing: border-box;">schools</span> in Arlington over the year.</b><br clear="none" style="box-sizing: border-box;" />We are meeting most months on first Mondays.</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Please contact <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">GrowingGreenSchools</strong></span><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;">@gmail.com</strong> to host a <span class="yiv5493649782class" style="box-sizing: border-box;">School</span> Garden Meetup or for further info.</div>
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Kirsten Buhls, <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;"><a href="http://www.ext.vt.edu/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #6eb43f; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Virginia Cooperative Extension</a></strong></div>
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Jessica Haney, <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;"><a href="http://www.mindfulhealthylife.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #6eb43f; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Mindful Healthy Life</a></strong></div>
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Elenor Hodges, <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;"><a href="http://www.arlingtonenvironment.org/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #6eb43f; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Arlingtonians For A Clean Environment</a></strong></div>
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<span style="color: #282525; font-family: Open Sans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 29.25px;">Mary Van Dyke, </span></span><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;"><a href="http://greenstemlearning.blogspot.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #6eb43f; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: inherit; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span class="yiv5493649782class" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Green</span> STEM Learning</a><br /><br /><b><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 18px; line-height: inherit;">Reposting from </span></span><a href="http://www.mindfulhealthylife.com/event/school-garden-meetup-at-campbell-elementary-in-arlington/" style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: inherit;" target="_blank">Mindful Health Life</a><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 18px; line-height: inherit;"> and the APSGreenSchools listserve </span><span style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 29.25px;"><br /></span></span></b></strong><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, san-serif, Roboto; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.25px;"><br />To join the APSGreenSchools listserve to receive future notices about the APS Garden Meetups and other area events and to share green schools information in the Arlington VA community - please send an e-mail to: </span><a data-rapid_p="2" href="mailto:APSGreenSchools-subscribe@yahoogroups.com" id="yui_3_15_0_1_1444057137636_1003" rel="nofollow" style="color: #324fe1; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, san-serif, Roboto; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.25px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">APSGreenSchools-subscribe@yahoogroups.com</a><span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, san-serif, Roboto; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.25px;"> with the name of your Arlington Public School (APS) or affiliation/interest group</span></div>
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Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03169378165629266312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6550927677625195004.post-86671052163296358192015-09-14T09:22:00.003-04:002015-09-14T09:24:52.171-04:00Use All the Senses: Observation 101<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Back-to-school and introducing the basics of inquiry-based science. <br />How to build students' skills of awareness and observation using the senses whether you are indoors or out?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Introduce the senses, including the five senses: sight, hearing, taste, touch, smell and others such as the ability to sense electro-magnetic fields and non-visible light and radiation. Talk about the anatomical adaptations that allow us and other animals to sense our environment and various types of energy.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">Have students list numbers 1 through 10 on a sheet of paper and walk around gallery-style to sniff the jars and describe and guess what is the scent they can smell in each jar</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 22.08px; white-space: pre-wrap;">How do you </span><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 22.08px; white-space: pre-wrap;">feel</b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 22.08px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> outside? Is it warm or cold today?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 22.08px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Play a </span><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwBQ0686r6g-b1ZGUGRzLU5JaU0/view?usp=sharing" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 22.08px; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank">sensory scavenger hunt</a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 22.08px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to </span><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 22.08px; white-space: pre-wrap;">look for, see, observe </b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 22.08px; white-space: pre-wrap;">and </span><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 22.08px; white-space: pre-wrap;">identify</b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 22.08px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> animals and plants in the schoolyard</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Shut your eyes and <b>listen</b> - what do you <b>hear</b> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">now we’re outside? </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A plane, the wind rustling leaves, people chatting, crickets, squirrels, birds?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This week I facilitated a lesson on Using the Senses with two groups of homeschool students. The students enjoyed the tactile and scent activities, and listening to the sounds inside the classroom and outdoors. Out in the playground we also found several spiders and several vines. The students learned to identify and distinguish between English ivy, Poison ivy, Wild Grape and Porcelainberry and had lots of fun finding acorns. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Next week we’ll study ants!</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span><br />
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<strong> <a href="https://www.slideshare.net/MaryVanDyke/gardening-with-and-for-kids-use-all-the-senses" target="_blank" title="Gardening With and For Kids: Use All the Senses">Gardening With and For Kids: Use All the Senses</a> </strong> from <strong><a href="https://www.slideshare.net/MaryVanDyke" target="_blank">Mary Van Dyke</a></strong> <br />
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<li><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A First Book of Nature</i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> by Nicola Davies</span></li>
<li><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwBQ0686r6g-b1ZGUGRzLU5JaU0/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Sensory Scavenger Hunt</a></i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> by Arlington Regional Master Naturalists</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="https://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/amaze.html" target="_blank">Amazing Animal Senses</a> on the Neuroscience for Kids website https://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/amaze.html</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></li>
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Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03169378165629266312noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6550927677625195004.post-62356363937123536832015-08-22T16:52:00.000-04:002015-08-24T23:18:54.021-04:00Need to Claim and Tame Your Schoolyard Garden?<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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Gone away for a few weeks and come home to find your garden has turned into a </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungle" style="text-decoration: none;">jungle</a>?
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Have you set up a community garden in your schoolyard?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This year at Jamestown Elementary School, we do not have family community buy-in to water or weed during the summer months. The schoolyard maintenance crew continues to visit every two weeks to mow and trim the grassy areas. The custodians in their spare time, water and harvest the vegetables: including beans, pumpkins, kale and lettuce. In late August, the PTA will hire a contractor to trim and mulch the week before school begins. The rest of the gardens will need to be reclaimed and tamed again when school begins in September. I am planning a couple of community schoolyard maintenance sessions with Master Naturalists and the PTA for early October and in the spring. Maybe a Master Naturalist will take on to maintain a native plant meadow? These Saturday sessions will help engage some families to help on other garden learning projects too, and be part of our strategy this year to involve more staff and students in learning outdoors.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">While in the garden, I take time to enjoy the outdoors and sunshine, and I pick green and red tomatoes to ripen indoors on a window cill. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I water the pots of strawberries, herbs and basil, and harvest potatoes and gourds.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">Then I pick a bunch of beautiful native flowers for the table. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6666669845581px; line-height: 20.2399997711182px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">While working I listen to the birds, see a tiger swallowtail butterfly, and get stung by a wasp!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">But now I know where wasps are nesting. I cook the potatoes with basil for supper.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">Next week I’ll start to reclaim and tame the schoolyard. </span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">What will be the main "weeds" this year?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">What will be in flower? </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">What vegetables, fruit and herbs will be ready to harvest?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">What animals and birds will be there?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">Who will be interested to learn in the schoolyard?</span></li>
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<b style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">Reference:</b><br />
<a href="http://www.slideshare.net/MaryVanDyke/weed-identification-for-schools-2014" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank">Weed Identification for Schools</a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Mary Van Dyke</span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">Next blog:</span><br />
<span style="color: #999999; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">A Guide to Nature Through the Seasons</span><br />
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