Pressed-Leaf
Time Line Book
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A
Spring Leaf-out Book |
This is a fun
and easy project for creating a visual time line of Spring Leaf-out in an
accordian type book.When completed it can be opened like a book, or pulled
completely open to reveal the whole season's changes on one long strip!
Before you start you will need to have:
- a blank
accordian folded book for each person
- glue
- flattened
leaves
- JN field
journals
Organizing
and Glueing in the Leaves
Students
will need to collect leaves each day they observe their trees, and
press them to dry flat. |
1. The leaves
should be collected from the plant press carefully so the collection dates
are kept with them.
- Putting
the leaves into envelopes and dating the outside is one system that
works.
2. In their
blank accordion books, help the students calculate how many pages (or
folds) they will need before gluing in the pressed leaves.
- Lightly
labeling the pages with pencil will help them plan
3. Using
only a very small amount of glue on the backs of the leaves, arrange and
glue the leaves onto the pages.
Here
are some ideas for your time-line pages:
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April
27
Tender leaves exploding... |
April
29
Two days later, inches larger.. |
May
3
May brings rain... |
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May
10
Gathered in the rain... |
Art
and science come together in creating beautiful and interesting
books! |
4. Now students
can embellish the pages to make their own fact-filled leaf time lines. Add
the information they wrote into their Journey North field guides:
- temperature
and weather conditions
- their
sensory observations and other phenology
- other
interesting facts they can find in field guides
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