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Field Trip!
Tryon Creek State Park
April 2013

Slug
 
Learn about decomposers by watching this video: 
 
Touch a banana slug!  Learn how a slug chews with no teeth, sees without eyes, and moves with no bones. In the forest, search for your spotty yellow friends.  Explore how they decompose logs and fallen leaves by eating “dead stuff,” and discover the role of other decomposers in the forest ecosystem. This is an excellent introduction to the carbon cycle.  Students need to be able to describe the interactions of organisms and the environment where they live. A few learning targets for students will be:
  • I can draw a food chain.
  • I can describe examples of how organisms interact with their environment and each other.
  • I can explain that some interactions are beneficial and others are detrimental.

Last Modified on February 5, 2013