Journal

=Your journal should include seasonal changes (phenology) for each quarter, notes, and writings that you are asked to do.=

Phenology Links:
[|Phenology Map] [|Weather Data] [|Journey North]

Plant Taxonomy
Plant Collecting (5) Permanent Label (8) Floral Structure (5) Scientific Names (5) Types of Conifers (4) Types of Leaf Arrangement (4) Journal question: How can learning the flora of an area give you knowledge about the fauna that lives there? (you may have to look up the meaning of the words)

Climate Change
AINL Bayfield Ice Cover Freshwater in the Great Lakes Native Culture and Climate Change Journal question: How are local people, such as Native Americans, being affected by climate change?

Orienteering and GPS
Compass Rose Latitude and Longitude of our school Bearing and distance worksheet Geocaching worksheet Journal question: Discuss how mapping/orienteering/GPS can be used in every day life.

Climate Change part II
Video, "Climate Change and Steroids" Videos, see next line: [|7 Climate Videos] Video, see next line: [|Loss of Ice video]

Journal question: Complete one of the "carbon footprint" calculators (there are 4 different ones on the "Climate Change" page). Give your results and discuss some of the factors used to determine it. Extra Journal Question: Go to this site: [|Exploring the Environment] Under "Teacher Pages," open one of the six units and summarize what is there. (ID:teachclimate; PW:wjucet2012 )

Elk/Wildlife
Video, "Rocky Mountain Elk" Video, "The Un-endangered Species" Guest speaker: Laine Stowell, elk biologist

Journal: Discuss pros and cons of the reintroduction of elk near Clam Lake and Black River Falls areas. Extra Journal Question: Go to this site: [|Why the World Won't End] Explain why the world will not end or go dark this month. (If it does, you don't need to do this one! ;)

Water Cycle
USGS water cycle diagram definitions of 8 water cycle terms

Journal: How does the water cycle affect you on a day to day basis? Give at least 3 ways.

Phenology Journal
Keep track of seasonal changes as they occur. Changes in the weather, animals and plants, etc...

Sand County Almanac
"Green Fire" notes

Forestry
Matt Schultz talk-forestry Matt Schultz talk-timber cruise

cruising/scale silviculture stick clinometer board foot breast height clearcut cord dominant trees even-aged stand forest fragmentation industrial forester marking timber canopy understory pulpwood regeneration sawlog tree <span style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,arial;">skidder <span style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,arial;">stumpage <span style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,arial;">thinning <span style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,arial;">uneven-aged stand
 * [|Forestry terms:]**

<span style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,arial;">Videos: <span style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,arial;">"How Forests are Managed" <span style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,arial;">"Wisconsin's Forest Communities"

<span style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,arial;">[|"Tree Measurement" video]

<span style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,arial;">[|"How to Fight Forest Fires" video]

**You also need to write a paragraph on the two following:**
Pick a quote from Sand County Almanac and describe what it means to you. It may be the same quote you used on our earlier assignment.

Describe a timber cruise either from your own experience or from Matt's talk.

Invasive Species
VT: "Stop the Invasion"

[|"Why You Should Care About Invasive Species"]

Owl Pellets
VT: "Barn Owls"

GPS
GPS: eTrex button overview, 4 main screens

Water Sampling
VT: "Water Sampling" Macroinvertebrate Identification Water Quality Measurement (4)

**You also need to write a paragraph on two of the following:**
Using an example of a specific invasive species, write about why we need to control them.

Watch at least two of these and make comments on what you observed: [|Time Lapse Satellite][|Photos]