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Lee County Conservation
Board Winter Programs
PO Box 218, Montrose, IA
52639
Phone 319-463-7673
Karen Johlas-Szalkowski,
Environmental Educator
Email kjszalkowski@leecounty.org
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First Grade
Recyclable or Not?
Students will learn the basics of recycling, what
can and can’t be recycled, sorting recyclables and why it’s important to
recycle.
Squirrels and Acorns
Students will look at Iowa squirrels (fox, gray,
flying), listen to a squirrel story, and play a game involving squirrels and
how they hide nuts for winter.
The First Forest Story and Forest
Activity
Students will listen to the First Forest fable and be able to answer
the question, “Why don’t trees have leaves in winter?” Students will be able to explain the
difference between a coniferous and decidous tree. They will also play go Tree and make tree leaf prints.
Teacher provides the following materials: plain paper and newspaper to cover
tables.
A Year In The Pond
Through a story, students will discover that pond
habitats have great diversity and are constantly changing. The students will play “Go Pond,” an
animal habitat game.
Honeybees
The students will discover how honeybees are a very
important part of the ecosystem.
Naturalists will dress a student as a honeybee and play the honeybee
flower game and learn to dance like the bees.
Nocturnal Animals
Students will watch the Nifty Nightly Nocturnal
Animals Puppet show and learn about different nocturnal animals. They will make paper bag raccoon puppets.
Spiders
Students will learn the body parts of spiders,
listen to a spider story, and play spider bingo.
Fish
are Neat
Students will listen to the story, Fish is Fish, and participate in an Iowa
fish identification game, and make fish prints.
Wild in Iowa Trunk Review
Seventeen Wild in
Iowa trunks are available for use, free of charge, to any Lee
County school, grades K-6. For any trunk,
you may arrange a classroom visit with the naturalists to give a brief
overview of the trunk or do a specific activity.
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