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Square of
Life
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On the first day of May our
class collected data for the Square
of Life project.
This project was developed by Center for Improved Engineering and
Science Education (CIESE) and Bank Street College of Education.
In this project students select and mark off a square meter of ground, make observations, and then record what plants, animals, and non-living objects they find. Our students also did some journaling while out in the forest. Tom McCall is unique in having a small forest on the school property. This forest includes a meadow area (formerly a house site), and three types of forest: pine, fir, and historic white oak trees. Photos taken by Charlie
Graham and Brandon Hundley
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 Echidna group--located in the oaks Justin, Skyler, Natausha, Karina |
Plants Green long big grass plant 60% of fallen log covered in moss Night shade plant 15-18 weeks--tall leafy woody stems Sticky plants (sticky on both side of the leaf) 2 short grass sprouts 2 seedlings Animals Ants, spiders, white bugs (tiny), 7 potato bugs Animal hole (3 cm wide, 7 cm long) Non-living Fallen tree branch or log Wet, fine grain soil--mud! Numerous sticks and leaves Rocks (small--20 cm and less) Dead moss Roots |
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| Plants Oregon grape Dandelion Grass Weeds Animals Spider, bumblebee, inchworm, little tiny bugs, ants, potato bugs Non-living Fir cones Pine needles Dead oregon grape leaves Dead branches and leaves |
 Oregon Grape group--located near the high meadow Tyson, Matt, Cory, Brian |
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| Kangaroo group--in the pine trees Sketch of their square meter Janeli, Gabi, Jeremy, Taran  |
Plants overgrown weedy grass caterpillar eaten leaf unidentified simple-leafed plant moss big weeds a few daisies lichen Animals Fly, red wasps, pill/potato bug, beetle, ant, spiker, gnats Non-living duff--covered the ground over the topsoil broken twigs dead oak leaf pine and douglas fir cones dead and eaten dandelions half broken nut shell half a peanut shell |
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| Plants Fern (outside square) Animals black spiders, worm Nonliving needle--pine duff--douglas fir sticks cones--pine leaves tootsie pop wrapper bone--from an animal, perhaps a mouse? shell--peanut and hazelnut piece of corn bark (cedar?) |
 Cuscus group--near the bleeding heart plant Cody, Sidney, Jessa, Anthony |
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Koala group--in the forest
Danielle, Cecilia, Tyler, Pato  |
Plants tree with a big root plants/shrubs holly bush with stickers Animals two ants, spiders, potato bug rooster and turkey nearby but not in our square Nonliving Big root pine cones walnut shell stick duff (wet underneath the blanket of pine needles) |
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| Plants Tall grasses 4-5 dandelions with purple/red stem 2 daisies Animals 3-4 potato bugs big nest of spiders--over 100! 6-7 ants Nonliving bare soil decaying leaves |
 Platypus group--in the high meadow Nick, Forrest, Abbie, Aaron |
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 Tasmanian devil group--in the forest Anthony, Joe, Carrie, Ashley Sketch of their square meter |
Plants 2 ferns sticky plant (just picked out of ground) 3 small snowberry plants moss Animals ladybug, mosquito Nonliving pine/fir cones deciduous tree leaves nut shells |
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Clip art licensed from
the Clip Art Gallery on
DiscoverySchool.com
and http://dir.coolclips.com/
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Last Updated 5/05/03 Copyright Dr. Mike Charles © 2003 Pacific University, all rights reserved Direct comments or questions to charlesm@pacificu.edu |