Educating Emme
• Oct. 7, 2007 - 101 Things to Do This Fall!
I found this great website, 101 Things to Do This Fall, on one of my favorite blogs, In Beauty and In Grace, and wanted to share it with you!
Here are some of the things that I would love to do this Fall:
Find an acorn -- an oak-tree's fruit. If you're not sure sure what to look for, see the Water Oak acorn in the "nut" section of our Simple Fruits Page.
Familiarize yourself with the ten most conspicuous insect orders by finding members of each of them. Our Insect Orders Page can help you.
Find a pine cone and look for its seeds. Our Conifer Page shows a typical pine cone with some seeds next to it.
During the fall, some bird species may be passing through your area that during the summer and winter are not present. See if you can identify these transitory migrant birds. You'll need to examine distribution maps for the birds you identify, using bird-identification books such as those available at Amazon.com.
Identify just one thing in your backyard -- maybe a bird or a garden flower or an insect -- and then use the Google search engine to find out all you can about it. You'll just be amazed at what you can learn!List all the ecological niches you can identify in your backyard. Our Backyard Niches Page can get you started.
Look for animal tracks in mud. You should be able to identify at least dog tracks, as drawn on our Mammal Page.
Find a caterpillar and notice its six black jointed legs immediately behind the head, its stubby, mid-body legs called prolegs and its end ones called anal prolegs. Our Caterpillars & Other Insect Larvae Page shows these.
Find a butterfly and try to identify it at the Butterflies of North America site. Our page on butterflies can give you lots of hints about butterfly identification.Put out a birdbath for birds and other critters. It doesn't have to be a real birdbath, but could be something like a turned-upside garbage can lid. The water should be no deeper than an inch. Keep a list of the species who visit.
Look for squirrels around your house or in the local park. What kind of squirrels are they? Our Squirrel Page may be able to help.
Find a feather and identify these parts of it: shaft, vane, barbs, and barbules. Our Feather Page can help.
Download some free nature books from Project Gutenberg. Look for writings by John Muir, Henry David Thoreau, Charles Darwin and Jack London.
List all the birds in your neighborhood. The "how to birdwatch" part of our bird section can get you started.
Learn to identify your local trees just by looking at their trunks. Our Tree Bark Page can help you organize your thoughts about this.
From a local pond or ditch, take a jar of water and set it in a window where it gets some sunlight. Over the weeks watch what happens to it...
When you identify a bird, see where it nests during the summer by clicking here
Download some free nature books from Project Gutenberg. Look for writings by John Muir, Henry David Thoreau, Charles Darwin and Jack London.
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Valerie