Online Field Guides
This is where I will post your pages that you send to me about your species. You can refer to them anytime you want and we can look here in addition to the field guides books when we aren't sure what species we have found outside. Here's the link to the species list on the Davidson College Ecological Preserve, which should have most of your species listed. If you click on the name of your species, there will be more information that you can use in your presentation. Remember to keep everything in your own words, though. Also, feel free to use any other resources.
Things to include in your presentation and on your page:
1. Scientific name
2. Description: enough so you can tell your species apart from other similar ones.
3. Habitat: where it lives
4. Feeding: what it eats
5. Predation: what eats it
6. Reproduction: how it reproduces (does it lay eggs? live birth? how long does it take for eggs to hatch? what time of year does it reproduce?)
7. Any other interesting facts.
By the time I come back on Wednesday, you all should have this information ready to present to the rest of the class.
| Eastern box turtle Painted turtle Snapping turtle Black Rat Snake Garter Snake Northern Water Snake |
Spotted Salamander Spring Peeper Northern Cricket Frog Gray Tree frog Mockingbird Eastern Screech Owl |