Our first week of Boreal Forest has been an amazing adventure! Here’s what our nature explorers have been up to this week!
❄️This week our Little Explorers (ages 3-5)- learned B is for Boreal, T is for Taiga, discovered boreal forest winter nature signs, learned about the shades of green in a fun evergreen activity, compared evergreens and deciduous trees, played a game of match the cones, and created their own conifer cone book, learned about life as a larch, and created a cut and paste larch cone bush, and enjoyed a group STEM activity dyeing with natural dyes!
🗺️Our Junior Explorers (ages 6-8) discovered the geography of the boreal forests with a mapping activity, learned about the pine tree life cycle, discovered more about the pine tree with a learning wheel creation, discovered the science of a dichotomous key when comparing the conifer and deciduous trees, sorted the conifer cones, and created a larch lift-the-flap to learn more about this amazing tree, and enjoyed a group STEM activity dyeing with natural dyes!
🐺Our Senior Explorers (ages 9-11) explored the boreal forest layers with a lift-the-flap creation, discovered the animals of the boreal forest, created conifer paint brushes, explored pine cones with a science day in the Cone Lab, explored boreal colors with a larch color palette activity, and had a laugh with larch Madlib, and enjoyed a group STEM activity dyeing with natural dyes!
🌲Our Expert Explorers (ages 12+) learned more about the characteristics of a boreal forest with a sorting and charting activity, learned all about the conifer from the science of a dichotomous key, created Northern Lights with a fun science experiment with pine cones, wrote beautiful larch poetry, and enjoyed a group STEM activity dyeing with natural dyes!
Can you believe that all of these wonderful activities are in just one week of the Boreal Forest study!
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