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Digital Map of Camp Latgawa
Explore the virtual map of Camp Latgawa below to find videos and activities that you can do anytime to
expand on your week of Outdoor School this spring.
Scroll below the map to find instructions for each activity.


Meet A Tree
Instructions:
  1. Meet a tree in your yard, at a park, or at your school. Bring your notebook, a pencil and your magnifying lens.
  2. Use your sense of touch, smell, sight and sound to explore the tree and really get to know it.  Introduce yourself to the tree.
  3. What do you notice? What do you wonder? What does it remind you of? (use the skills you have be building to make specific observations!)
  4. What season is it?  How can you tell by looking at the tree?  How would the tree look in other seasons?
  5. Take a picture, draw a sketch, write notes, poems or ideas that you want to remember or share about the tree in your notebook.

My Plant Life
Instructions:
      1. Click through the videos on the map titled "My Plant Life".  In these videos ODS staff share stories and connections they have to plants. 
      2.  Think about how plants are important in your life.  Are there certain plants that make you think of a special time of year or a favorite memory?  Are there                plants that you need to survive?  Are there some plants that bring you joy?
     3.  Write, sketch or diagram how a plant or many plants are important in your life in your nature notebook.  What is your plant story?
Interview an Organism
Instructions:
     1. Watch the Interview an Organism video on our interactive map from Westminster Woods.
     2. Remind yourself of the different types of questions you might ask an organism-
                        * Descriptive questions
                        * Counting and measurement questions
                        * Behavior questions
                        * Timing questions
     3.  Go outdoors or search the internet for plants or animals to observe.  
     4.  Spend 5-10 minutes "interviewing" your organism. 
     5.  As you ask questions, answer them with your observations of the organism and record what you wonder and notice in your nature notebook.  Include sketches, diagrams, word and numbers in your journal entry.

Draw a Scientist
Instructions:
     1.  Watch the introduction video for Draw a Scientist on our interactive map in the Energy Exchange section.
     2.  Explore the videos of scientists that are also found in the Energy Exchange section.
     3.  Think about what makes someone a scientist?  What do they do?  What do they think?  What tools do they use?  What do they wear?  What makes them             curious?
     4.  In your nature notebook draw a picture of a scientist using sketches and labels.  Make sure to include your own description or ideas of what makes someone a scientist.
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Beneath My Feet
Instructions:
     1.  Find a place you can sit quietly.  Outside in your yard?  At a nearby park? A quiet place indoors?       2. Close your eyes and try to imagine all the different things that are happening underground where you are right now?  Are there animals?  Are there things growing? Breathing? Digging? Rocks? Fungus?
     3. Sketch, write or diagram what you imagine is happening underground where you are in your notebook.

Serpentine and Darlingtonia
Instructions:
     1. Watch both videos under Darlingtonia in the Geology section of the interactive map.
     2. As you watch the videos take notes using labels, sketches and words in your notebook. Keep track of the types of tricks or adaptations the cobra lily has to catch bugs.  
     3. Biomimicry is using natural processes, plants or animals as inspiration for engineering new designs.  Imagine you are going to host a barbeque for your                   whole class.  You plan for the food, music and games, but you definitely don't want yellow jackets an flies to ruin the fun.  Can you use some of the tricks and adaptations of the cobra lily to help you design a bug trap to help save your barbeque.
     4.  Use another page of your notebook to sketch your idea using diagrams and labels.  Make sure to include how you used biomimicry to come up with you design!
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