Unit Overview


Essential Question:

Overall: Who am I?
Forest Foray: Who am I in this place? What do the pieces, patterns, and processes of Barnard Brook mean to me? What should they mean to others?


 
Forest Forays Through the Seasons
 
Summer
  First Foray:
Learning Activity: Choosing Your Site
  Second Foray:
Learning Activity: Power Spot Free Write Journaling, Sketching, and Music
  Third Foray:
Learning Activity: Sketching, and Music
 
Autumn
  Fourth Foray:
Learning Activity: Mapping your site/ Music
  Fifth Foray:
Learning Activity: Evidence of Animals and Humans
  Sixth Foray:
Learning Activity: Earth Window Haiku
  Seventh Foray: Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park
Learning Activity: Ranger-guided forest activity/Power Spot selections, journaling, poems, art
  Eighth Foray:
Learning Activity: Senses Hunt
  Ninth Foray:
Learning Activity: I wonder…/recorder/journaling
 
Winter/Spring
  Tenth Foray:
Learning Activity: Personalized Tree Field Guide
  Eleventh Foray:
Learning Activity: Prose Journaling: Learning From Nature/Sharing Your Site with a Friend
  Twelfth Foray:
Learning Activity: Muir’s Stickeen/Animal Riddles
 
Spring
  Thirteenth Foray:
Learning Activity: Insects, Spiders and Other Creatures
  Fourteenth Foray:
Learning Activity: Personalized Tree Field Guide
  Fifteenth Foray:
Learning Activity: finding Pieces, Patterns, and Processes
  Sixteenth Foray:
Learning Activity: Reading the Forest Landscape Quest at Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park
  Seventeenth Foray:
Learning Activity: Welcoming the Night
  Community Forest Foray SpeakChorus Performance
Learning Activity: Forest Foray SpeakChorus Script Writing and Rehearsals
  Field Trip: Vermont Institute of Natural Science
Learning Activity: Welcoming the Night
  Field Trip: Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology

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