2012 Overview of the Week Monday Introduction Geography of the Adirondacks Research Adirondack Animals Tuesday Completing your Newspaper Animal Tracks by Arthur Doros Exploring Animal Tracks group activities ID: 396779
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Slide1
Welcome to Science is Exploration and Discovery
2012!Slide2
Overview of the Week
Monday
Introduction
Geography of the Adirondacks
Research Adirondack Animals
Tuesday
Completing your “Newspaper
”
Animal Tracks
by Arthur
Doros
Exploring Animal Tracks (group activities)
Identifying Tracks
Making Tracks
Casting Molds of TracksSlide3
Overview Continued
Wednesday
Owl Pellet
Dissection
Kidwings
Virtual Dissection Activity
Thursday
Share Newspapers about Adirondack AnimalsSlide4
Animals in the Woods
How do you know what animals live in the woods?
See the animal
See tracks (footprints)
See droppings (scat)
See pellets
See
scratchings
/
knawingsSlide5
See AnimalsSlide6
See TracksSlide7
See Droppings (scat)
Fresh
northern river otter
(
Lutra
canadensis
) scat. It
usually includes fish or crayfish and has a greenish tint.
This
whitetail deer
(
Odocoileus
virginiana
) scat is covered
with a white, velvety coat of mildew, indicating that it
is a few days old. Deer scat is oblong and dimpled, while
rabbit scat is more round, and has a smooth surface (see
swamp rabbit scat). In summer, deer and rabbit scats are
softer and darker, while in winter they are more fibrous.
A quarter is shown for scale.Slide8
See Pellets
Three Tawny Owl pellets
Falcon pelletSlide9
See
s
cratchings
/
knawings
Bear claw marks
Bobcat
scratchings
Buck deer antler scrapings
Beaver chewed treeSlide10
Where are we going to look?
The Adirondack Mountains!Slide11
Where are the Adirondacks?