Forest and Field Ecology

  • Category: Ecology
  • Program Type: School
  • Duration: 90 min.
  • Environment: Outdoors
  • Location: SLNSC
  • Ages: Middle School, High School
  • Availability: Fall, Spring, Summer

What characteristics make fields and forests such different natural communities? Through hands-on scientific examination, teams of students measure wind speed, temperature, soil pH, humidity, and other characteristics. Students review data and then compare and contrast the results between the two communities. Meet a live animal to discover how the factors measured during the program influence where the animal lives.

 

Next Generation Science Standards Connections (Middle School)
  • MS-LS2-1 Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics – Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence for the effects of resource availability on organisms and populations of organisms in an ecosystem.
  • MS-LS2-4 Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics – Construct an argument supported by empirical evidence that changes to physical or biological components of an ecosystem affect populations.
Squam Lakes Natural Science Center
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