Lesson Description:
 Elementary students will gather natural materials found outside on the ground in the fall. They will use the materials that they have collected to create critters, creatures, or animals.

Eco-fact: In the fall in environments where oak trees grow, acorns are an important diet of many animals such as birds, small mammals, and large mammals.

Procedure:

• Students will gather natural materials found outside on the ground in the fall.
• Arrange your materials to build critters, creatures, or animals.get creative.
• Glue all the parts of critters, creatures, or animals together.
• Let critter creations dry.

Adaptations:

• Teacher can require students to make specific animals such as squirrels in early fall or turkeys for thanksgiving.

Extensions:

• Students can write stories about their critters.
• Students can create a “critter museum” displaying their creations.

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Lesson Type:

• Project

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Sustainability Topic:

• Gardening

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GEF Program Category:

• Green Thumb Challenge

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