Exploring the Everglades

  
Fourth graders trek through Everglades National Park after researching the various habitats and discovering the many animals that call the "River of Grass" home. Students study the Florida Everglades in depth during their time in ACES and become familiar with Everglades vocabulary, conduct written and verbal reports on the animals in the Everglades and create illustrations of the animals in their natural habitats. The curriculum includes but is not limited to activity sheets, a guided fieldtrip to Everglades National Park, a guided fieldtrip to Fairchild Tropical Gardens (explored the Pine Rockland, Mangrove Forest and Tropical Hardwood Hammock) videos, research projects, numerous resource books, puzzles and a game of Everglades Jeopardy. Fourth grade students use "Disappearing Faces" by Carol A. Wallin as a textbook.
 

2005 Everglades Mural Project Slideshow of Pictures

2004 Journeys - Pic Page

Everglades Animals by
Fourth Grade - mural

Illustrations

Everglades Video Resources:
Wild Florida

Florida Panthers

Alligators

Adventure in the Everglades

Wild Florida for Children

The Everglades

Birds of the Everglades

Fourth Grade Everglades Animal Reports

First Grade alligators in the EvergladesIllustrations

Everglades Vocabulary:
Adapt, adaptation, algae, alligator, anhinga, applesnail, aquifer, bald eagle, bark, barred owl, bass, black bear, bobcat, bromeliad, brown pelican, camouflage, carnivore, climate, cold-blooded, community, conservation, consumer, contamination, decomposer, deer, detritus, diversity, ecology, flora, food, food chain, food web, fox, fungi, gambusia, garfish, gumbo limbo tree, habitat, habitat destruction, hammock, hawk, ecosystem, egret, endangered species, energy, environment, epiphyte, erosion, everglades, exotic, extinct, fern, herbivore, heron, ibis, insect, interdependence, irrigation, larva, lichen, limestone, loggerhead turtle, manatee, mangrove, marine, microscopic, mollusk, mosquito, national park, natural resource, niche, nourishment, omnivorous, opossum, organism, osprey, panther, parasite, periphyton, pesticide, pollution, population, predator, preservation, prey, producer, raccoons, recycle, reptile, roseate spoonbill, sandhill crane, species, symbiosis, tree snail, water, water cycle, weather, woodstork.