Nature Trail Tour Guide
Student Handout

The Challenge: You are a member of a cooperative group of four. Each one of you will have one of the following jobs: zoologist, botanist, cartographer, or geologist. Your group will plan and conduct an interesting and informative guided tour of three different natural sites that can be found in a nearby Northern Forest area. Each site chosen should represent a different type of habitat. Examples of habitats are; in/near water, dry/wet soil, sunny/shaded area.

At each site of your tour, please be prepared to discuss the following Focus Questions:

1. What environmental conditions exist here?

2. What plants live here?

3. What animals live here?

4. How have the plants and animals adapted to survive here?

Please prepare a script of your tour and share it with your teacher. You will use this edited script to guide you when you conduct a mini tour for our class during week five of this project. Make sure the final edition of this script has correct spelling and punctuation and that all the Focus Questions are addressed accurately and thoroughly. Parents and community members will then be invited to take our guided tours. Each group will lead visitors through the trail conducting their tour.




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