Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Tracks and Scat!

Today, the Urban Naturalists learned the importance of identifying animal tracks and scat (another word for animal poop) in the areas we study. Tracks and scat tell us many things about an area including:

We then became Critter Scene Investigators and examined a made-up nature scene. We used the clues left behind to draw conclusions about what the animals were up to. Check out the scene and see what you can figure out!


Checking out the Critter Scene! 
Hmmm....what are these animal prints telling
us? 



















Using our tracks guides to figure out
what's visited our scene
Writing down some observations!




What does the scene tell you? 

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