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Fire Management (page title)
Forest and mose on one side, tundra and caribou on the other side of a circle - button size UNIT I:
FOREST AND TUNDRA ECOLOGY
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Reading the Alaska Environment (K-12)
  In an outdoor activity, students closely observe their environment
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      Material Handouts
*Reading the Alaska Environment
*Boreal Forest Observations
*Tundra Observations
*Don't Tear Me Apart or Crush My Home

Identifying Objects (3-8)
  Students learn about dichotomous keys and how they are used to identify plants
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*Plant Key - Summer
*Plant Key - Winter

Blind Walk (K-12)
  In an outdoor activity, students explore the local ecosystem using only their sense of touch and smell
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      Material Handouts
*Blind Walk Student Worksheet
*Don't Tear Me Apart or Crush My Home

Transect Study (6-12)
  Students set up transects near the school to systematically study the local ecosystem.
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      Material Handouts
*Transect Study Field Worksheet
*Don't Tear Me Apart or Crush My Home

Making the Forest and Tundra Wildlife Connection (5-12)
  Students participate in an active game to form food chains of the boreal forest
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      Material Handouts
*Alaska Ecology Cards (2mb)
(see advanced preparation)

Critter Search (K-12)
  Students look for evidence of small animals and their tracks in an outdoor setting
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      Material Handouts
*Critter Search Treasure Hunt Worksheet

The Succession Race (5-12)
  Students play an active game in which they pretend they are plants. As the plants progress through boreal forest succession they encounter conditions which affect them.
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      Material Handouts
*Succession Cards
*Succession of the Boreal Forest After Fire

Boreal Forest Succession (K-12)
  Students observe and record the different stages of forest succession around their school grounds, and illustrate succession in the boreal forest by making field notebooks and a mural
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      Material Handouts
*Succession of the Boreal Forest After Fire

Living on the Edge (5-8)
  Students play a game to create a vegetation mosaic and discuss their influence on wildlife diversity
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      Material Handouts
*Living on the Edge Forest Graph Paper
*Living on the Edge Key
*Forest Mosaic of Yukon Flats
*Alaska Ecology Cards (2mb)


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