Day 2: Exploring Colorado Wildlife (Video)

Field Day 1: 8th Grade

Forest Ecology

(Check out the video at the end of this post!)
Today the students were split into two field groups. The 8th graders went with their two instructors out to the forest near Rainbow Lake. The 6th graders went with their two field instructors to the foothills of Buffalo Mountain. Here are some of the highlights from today:

Today we went into the mountains to look for wildlife and study forest ecology.

When we were in the field today, we did a special activity after we read "The Giving Tree." The instructors blindfolded us and lead us to a tree in the forest. We had to feel the tree and study all of its textures and special features. We were brought back to our starting point, took off the blindfold, and had to find our unique tree. Here is Sydney, waiting to be lead to her tree. Nicholas, Sydney, and some of the others found their tree on the first try. Others wandered around the forest till they found their unique tree.

Marco caught sleeping out in the field.

We found bear claw marks on one of the trees.

Our school is in area called Summit County between Copper Mountain and Brekenridge, Colorado. There are many popular ski resorts in the area.

Nicholas and Marco, part of the wolf pack. Let's hear you howl!!

Ms. Scott and Mr. Ohrt trying to run away!

Esbeydi and Sydney having fun in the snow!

Karla and Alyssa having a great time in the Great Outdoors!

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Field Day 1: 6th grade

Forest Ecology

We played lots of game where we learned about animal adaptations. Here Ethan is mimicing the talons of a bird of prey.

Even Mr. Bozdogan joined in the fun and games. Here he is pretending to be a Golden Eagle as part of the animal adaptations game. However, tonight we learned that "Bozdogan"means "Gray Hawk" Turkish. This is officially his new nickname of the rest of the trip :)

Melisa, William, and Elexus paid close attention to all the activities and things our field instructors were teaching us.

Later we hiked into the forest to learn about tree adaptations and practice identifying some of the native species using a dicotomus tree key.

Between lessons and games we took time to play in the snow and forest.

We even got to make our first snow angels!

Everyone had an AWESOME day out in the field! We can't wait to see what's in store for us tomorrow!

Check out Ethan and Dain's impressions from our first field day:
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