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Changing Landscapes Journey back to the time of Lewis and Clark and investigate how landscapes can change over time. In this lesson, students will use naturalist skills of drawing and mapping to explore landscapes from the past to the future. Resources to enhance further learning are available at Explore Your World With Lewis and Clark.
Grades 4-8. Other subjects: Science, Art, Language Arts.
Landscape of Lewis and Clark Discussion and Drawing (40 minutes)
Present and Future Landscapes Map (40 minutes)
Lewis and Clark Journal Excerpts: Landscape Map Lesson Details
Grades 4-8. Subjects: History, Science, Art, Language Arts.
Explore Your World With Lewis and Clark
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Be a naturalist! Explore the natural world! Use your five senses to observe the world around you. Students will learn to develop their skills as nature detectives through senses investigations, journaling and drawing in a micro-mapping project.
Senses Investigations (45 minutes)
Micro Maps (45 minutes)
Grades 4-8. Subjects: Art, Language Arts, Mathematics, Science.
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Leafy Spurge If you're standing in a patch of leafy spurge in late summer, you might hear a popping or crackling sound. This is the plant's artillery ... Discover how leafy spurge spreads and how its biological control agent, spurge hawk moth, works to try to keep the plant in check. Can the spurge be contained? Students will participate in the Leafy Spurge Bonanza to answer these questions.
Leafy Spurge Bonanza (50 minutes)
Create a Fantasy Plant (30 minutes)
Grades 4-8. Subjects: Art, Language Arts, Science, Mathematics.
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Yellow Starthistle. Look closely at the Yellow Starthistle -- the base of each flower is guarded by long, sharp spines that poke out in all directions. Seen from above, these spines look like the points of a star. Each spine is almost one inch long and as sharp as a sewing needle. That's starthistle's way of saying, Don't touch me! Students will take a closer look at this plant and other noxious weeds through back to back drawings. Students will also learn ore about plants and the plant life cycle through flower dissections.
Back to Back Observations (30 minutes)
Plant Life Cycle and Flower Dissection (40 minutes)
Grades 4-8. Subjects: Science, Art, Language Arts.
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Leafy Spurge and Spotted Knapweed Lesson Plans With Radio Plays. Twenty activities correspond with the CD and mp3 radio plays, The Meanest Flower That Blows! Each radio play builds on content from the one before it, setting the stage for the play that follows. One activity accompanies each 2 to 3 minute play. Ten plays are about Spotted Knapweed and its biological control insects. The ten remaining plays are about Leafy Spurge and its biological control insects. Written scripts for each play are available at Interesting Facts where you can listen to the plays online. Grades K-3. Subjects: Science, Language Arts, Mathematics, Geography, Literature.

Leafy Spurge Radio Play Lesson Plans
1 Snap-Crackle-Pop. Seeds in Air, on Water, on your Clothes.
2 Icky Stuff: Safety First With Noxious Weeds.
3 Cork-like and Wax-like Plant Defenses. Science Project Lesson Plan.
4 Chow Down. Mapping Investigation.
5 No Home on the Range: Play Migration Headache.
6 Meet the Beetles - Before and After.
7 Red-headed Stranger - Before and After.
8 Flying Flies - Before and After. Tip Gall Midge Points of Attack.
9 Bug Barf - Before and After. Hawk Moth Norn Worm Stored Poison Lesson Plan.<br.> 10 Defense Systems and Medicine. Exploring Plant Chemistry.

Spotted Knapweed Radio Plan Lesson Plans.
11 Pineapple. Spotted Knapweed Identification.
12 Spoons: Seeds and their Travels.
13 Pirates and the Backcountry.
14 Serious Conversation.
15 Pulling Weeds Quiz Show.
16 Sulfur Moth Collection.
17 Ranch Land Money Rodeo.
18 Bike Tires. Clean off the Seeds.
19 Snout Beetles and Scientific Name.
20 Weed Spread in Time.
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