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The students will examine and gain information on different types of soils and determine their water-holding capacity.
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Students will distinguish the differences between opinion and fact, and use that information in decision-making.
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Students will discover that although humans often use the word "weed" as a derogatory term, many weeds do offer benefits to wildlife and humans.
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Students will learn the concept of adaptation, then design and create a prairie roadside bird.
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Students will develop a survey to assess public knowledge of roadside ditches and determine a means of increasing public awareness.
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The students will make observations of changes in a roadside through the school year and summarize their results.
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This lesson is designed to create an awareness of roadside prairies throughout Iowa. Students will turn a hallway into a roadside prairie. The hall will be the road; the walls will be the roadside.
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This activity is designed for young students to begin to recognize certain Iowa wildflowers.
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This activity is designed for students to become familiar with some of the native plants of Iowa, expecially those seen along a roadside.
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Students will construct a cross-section of a roadside.
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Students will visit a prairie site and participate in individual or small-team prairie appreciation experiences. Journaling through notes, sketches, and photography will record the visit for classroom follow-up.
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Students will examine three types of soil to determine the differences in permeability.
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Students will learn the concept of diversity by exploring the similarities and differences between drawings they make and organisms they collect.
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Students will research prairie-related statistics concerning the history and future of prairie in Iowa. Using these statistics, present and potential acreage for prairie maintenance/restoration/reconstruction will be calculated for their county or state.
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Students will discover the various strategies used by the media to influence public opinion and policy.
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Students will discover the differences between burned and unburned prairie areas and develop an understanding of the positive and negative effects of burning.
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Students will learn to use a dichotomous key by "keying out" several different kinds of candy. Students will then learn to use the key to identify common roadside plants.
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Students will conduct a detailed study of roadside litter and develop a plan to reduce, reuse, or recycle it.
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Students will discover and identify the major attributes of a wetland and explore roadsides for existence of wetlands.
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Students will compare invertebrate life in a monoculture setting (cropland) with a polyculture setting (prairie roadside).
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Students will discover the use of roadside plants as pollutant neutralizers.
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Students will learn the concept of cycles in nature by reading Chief Seattle's Challenge and applying his ideas to the four rings of a mobius strip.
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An activity that allows students to discuss the value of prairie resources.
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Students will determine the destructive force of water in an unprotected roadside.
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Teams of students will map the plant patterns in a section of a roadside community.
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Students will discover, through observation and experimentation, the effects of pollution on plants and seeds.
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Students will develop a plan for seed collection and collect prairie plant seed from local roadsides and prairies.
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Students will read "Where the Sidewalk Ends" and draw a roadside as they visualize it. They will develop a "mind map" of the biotic characteristics of the roadside.
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Students will compare roadsides in different stages of succession and relate these stages to the disturbances in the area.
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Students will determine the economic difference between human and natural roadside maintenance.
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