BOWMAN GRADE 5 SPRING NATURE WALK
Objectives
The Grade Five Spring Nature Walk explores a forest ecosystem in the Conservation Area near Bowman School.
On this walk students will:
- Explore and record in a forest ecosystem,
- Observe interactions and interdependence in this system,
- Discover the cyclic nature of the food/energy cycle, and
- Realize that an ecosystem is a continually changing process of interdependence between plants, animals, fungi, and non-living things.
Through their experiences on Nature Walks in earlier grades children will have learned how to:
- Observe and discover outdoors,
- Ask questions and seek answers,
- Make connections and draw conclusions.
They will have observed seasonal rhythms and cycles in the schoolyard, and discovered what both plants and animals need to survive and how they adapt to seasonal changes. Children will have built simple food chains and food webs and become aware of the interdependence of animals, plants, fungi, and the non-living environment. The study of a forest ecosystem integrates all these concepts.