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March 29, 2005

Turkey display

Jennifer Brown spotted this tom displaying for the female this morning at about 8:30 by the glass house.

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Turkeys and Ducks

On Friday, I saw a male turkey displaying, the female turkey and her 7 young from last year, and a male and female mallard duck swimming on one of the little ponds in the rain garden. It was quite a display, but none of my pictures turned out.

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March 23, 2005

3 male turkeys

I spotted these 3 male turkeys displaying near the 1 female and 7 yearlings who were eating in the rain garden. I think we are nearing mating season.

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March 22, 2005

Sharon Transplanting Wild Indigo

Today hort volunteer Sharon Pederson helped us transplant hundreds of prairie and woodland seedlings. These seedlings will be planted by students in the busy April and May months.
Thanks Sharon!

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Can you find the turkey?

This turkey couldn't find the door to get in the Glass House yesterday.

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March 21, 2005

check this website

The Environmental News Network has a pretty good website: www.enn.com
Take a look!--Jon Lawrence

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March 18, 2005

Wood Duck

Jennifer, Eddie and I saw a male wood duck in Deer Creek yesterday near the gravel bar North of the Cabin.

Posted by Malinda Slagle at 02:26 PM | Comments (1)

Butterflies

I saw an eastern tailed blue butterfly and a question mark yesterday in the North Woods.

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Spring Beauty

The first native wildflowers are blooming! I spotted spring beauties blooming yesterday for the first time this year in the woods yesterday.

Posted by Malinda Slagle at 02:23 PM | Comments (1)

Belted Kingfisher

Hort volunteers Katie Swallie and Pauline Ashton spotted a belted kingfisher perched in a tree overlooking Deer Creek across from the creek overlook adjacent to the South Prairie. I saw one yesterday as well in the North Woods area.

Posted by Malinda Slagle at 02:22 PM | Comments (0)

More Vultures

Volunteer Ray Potter spied these two vultures above the North Prairie.

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March 17, 2005

Filters for evaluating field studies

In the fall, Eddie and I came up with a list of "Filters" or criteria for evaluating LREC programs. I've added suggestions that you all have made.

Does the field experience…

· Develop skills and/or knowledge needed for students to develop an Enduring Understanding (or attain unit learning goals)?

· Interest and engage all students, including the hard-to-engage students?

· Challenge the bright student?

· Incorporate inquiry process skills? --o Student-generated questions --o Relevant investigations --o Meaningful data is recorded and interpreted --o Incorporates measurements and calculations --o Students reflect and communicate

· Consist of seasonally appropriate activities?

· Consist of grade appropriate activities?

· Make effective use of LREC resources?

· Provide a meaningful component to a multi-visit and/or multi-year sequence of field experiences?

· Require the teacher to take an active role?

· Include a student assessment component?

· Have a “rainy-day” back-up plan?

· Allow for exploring time?

· Include fun?

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March 15, 2005

Vultures

We saw two turkey vultures circling overhead in the North Prairie this morning.

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March 14, 2005

Prairie plant emergence

This new growth was sighted in the unburned south prairie. Can anyone identify these plants?

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Joe's Reception

LREC volunteers and staff enjoyed catching up with Joe.

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Tree Leaf Quiz

Do you know your trees? See how many trees you can identify from the line drawings that make up this on-line tree quiz from About.com.
http://forestry.about.com/b/a/151374.htm

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