Wetlands 2
I. Gigapan
This lesson uses a Haney Creek pond as its core. Let's go there and explore a Gigapans showing a wet pond. The snapshots have narrated slideshows. If necessary, review the lesson on how to navigate a Gigapan. Zoom in, pan around, explore the snapshots with their recorded slideshows.
Click: Haney Creek Pond
II. Snapshot Information and Images
Go to the menu bar and click on Lesson 14 to get the fly-out menu entitled "Wetlands 2 Snapshot Information and Images" for the words and images contained in the Gigapan snapshots
III. Reference Photos
Lessons 11 through 14 have no reference photos.
IV. Field Trip
If you have not gone yet, go explore a wetland habitat. Note: If you took a wetland field trip for prior lessons you are not expected to go a second time for Lesson 14. A list of suggested sites is found on the tab in the menu bar after Lesson 16.
Take pictures of ten plants you identify. A total of ten species photos to cover both scrub lessons is adequate. Remember: put the photos in a Word doc and send it to us. Please do not send photos as separate e-mail attachments.
I. Gigapan
This lesson uses a Haney Creek pond as its core. Let's go there and explore a Gigapans showing a wet pond. The snapshots have narrated slideshows. If necessary, review the lesson on how to navigate a Gigapan. Zoom in, pan around, explore the snapshots with their recorded slideshows.
Click: Haney Creek Pond
II. Snapshot Information and Images
Go to the menu bar and click on Lesson 14 to get the fly-out menu entitled "Wetlands 2 Snapshot Information and Images" for the words and images contained in the Gigapan snapshots
III. Reference Photos
Lessons 11 through 14 have no reference photos.
IV. Field Trip
If you have not gone yet, go explore a wetland habitat. Note: If you took a wetland field trip for prior lessons you are not expected to go a second time for Lesson 14. A list of suggested sites is found on the tab in the menu bar after Lesson 16.
Take pictures of ten plants you identify. A total of ten species photos to cover both scrub lessons is adequate. Remember: put the photos in a Word doc and send it to us. Please do not send photos as separate e-mail attachments.
IV. Practice
1. What wetland shrub or small tree has narrow pointed serrate leaves, often with large stipules? The seeds have silky parachutes. A natural sources of aspirin.
2. What wetland shrub has huge pink flowers, and lots of fuzz?
3. What wetland tree has the leaves white beneath, fragrant when crushed, and a dunce cap bud? The flowers are big and white.
4. What wetland fern has enormous leaves?
5. What wetland tree was "the" main broadleaf tree in the Everglades? The fruit resembles a heart.
6. What wetland shrubs in the Aster Family have the leaves vaguely wedge-shaped with coarse teeth? The flowers are tiny and white in dense heads. The seedlike fruits have parachutes.
7. What scrub shrub has thin needlelike leaves?
8. What wetlands Lily has big orange flowers?
9. What Milkwort has yellow flowers in round heads?
10. What fern has RR tracks under its serrate leaves?
VI. Quiz
Quiz 14