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Fair Hill Nature Center Stewards of Tomorrow Schoolbased Outdoor Learning Experiences Why do Leaves Change Color? Poem Folder FHNC Objectives Connection to CCPS Focus Concepts and Objectives Students will be able to: 1. Identify the basic parts of trees/plants. 2. Explain how plants respond to changes to their environment (seasonal changes). Materials (for each folder): “Why do leaves change color?” * Poem title and paragraph sheets (enclosed) Fall leaf (yellow, orange, red) Green cellophane square about the size of a plastic sandwich bag Plastic sandwich bag Manilla file folder Scissors and xacto knife or box cutter (teacher prep materials) Scotch tape Glue sticks Focus Concept: External Parts to Meet Needs Overview: Plants and animals have needs. These organisms use these external parts to meet needs, grow, and survive. Objectives: Students will be able to: 1. Identify the 6 parts of a plant and explain their functions. Focus Concept: Organisms’ Responses to Environment Overview: Animals’ needs are impacted by their environment. [Etc.] Objectives: Students will be able to: 1. Explain how plants and animals respond to their environment. Credit: Why do Leaves Change Color? From the book: Where Fish Go In Winter and Answers to Other Great Mysteries, by Amy Goldman Koss Preparation • Assemble materials so that each student can make one Why do Leaves Change Color? Poem Folder. • Copy enough pages of the poem paragraphs for the number of folders to be made. Cut the title and each of the four poem paragraphs out so that each student receives one set. • Cut the square out of the poem folder template page. Place the page on folder, lining up the top of the page with the top of the folder. Trace the square on the file folder using the hole as a template. Cut the square out of both sides of the folder. • Cut one square of green cellophane (slightly larger than the square) for each folder. Activity With students, take a walk outside to observe and collect leaves of different colors. Tell them to each keep the brightest colored leaf for their project. If you are engaging the students in the Adopt A Tree activity, be sure to visit your adopted tree to see what changes have occurred since a previous visit.
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Fair Hill Nature Center Stewards of Tomorrow
School-‐based Outdoor Learning Experiences
Why do Leaves Change Color? Poem Folder
FHNC Objectives Connection to CCPS Focus Concepts
and Objectives
Students will be able to: 1. Identify the basic parts of trees/plants. 2. Explain how plants respond to changes
to their environment (seasonal changes). Materials (for each folder): ü “Why do leaves change color?” * Poem
title and paragraph sheets (enclosed) ü Fall leaf (yellow, orange, red) ü Green cellophane square about the size
of a plastic sandwich bag ü Plastic sandwich bag ü Manilla file folder ü Scissors and xacto knife or box cutter
(teacher prep materials) ü Scotch tape ü Glue sticks
Focus Concept: External Parts to Meet Needs Overview: Plants and animals have needs. These organisms use these external parts to meet needs, grow, and survive. Objectives: Students will be able to:
1. Identify the 6 parts of a plant and explain their functions.
Focus Concept: Organisms’ Responses to Environment Overview: Animals’ needs are impacted by their environment. [Etc.] Objectives: Students will be able to:
1. Explain how plants and animals respond to their environment.
Credit: Why do Leaves Change Color? From the book: Where Fish Go In Winter and Answers to Other Great Mysteries, by Amy Goldman Koss
Preparation
• Assemble materials so that each student can make one Why do Leaves Change Color? Poem Folder.
• Copy enough pages of the poem paragraphs for the number of folders to be made. Cut the title and each of the four poem paragraphs out so that each student receives one set.
• Cut the square out of the poem folder template page. Place the page on folder, lining up the top of the page with the top of the folder. Trace the square on the file folder using the hole as a template. Cut the square out of both sides of the folder.
• Cut one square of green cellophane (slightly larger than the square) for each folder.
Activity With students, take a walk outside to observe and collect leaves of different
colors. Tell them to each keep the brightest colored leaf for their project. If you are engaging the students in the Adopt A Tree activity, be sure to visit your adopted tree to see what changes have occurred since a previous visit.
Have students draw the tree to compare with other drawings they may have completed.
Directions Back inside, after the leaves have been collected, read the poem to the students.
• Go over vocabulary in poem: chlorophyll-‐-‐the green substance in plant leaves (and other plant
parts) that makes it possible for them to make food from sunlight (and carbon dioxide and water). “Chlorophyll” comes from the Greek words khloros, meaning "pale green" and phyllon, meaning "a leaf."
hues: colors
• Tell students that they are going to construct a Poem Folder with their leaf that will illustrate what the poem is talking about.
• With the students, assemble the Poem Folder (depending on students, steps 1 and 2 could be prepared for them ahead of time). 1. Open the folder and tape the green cellophane square onto the
back side of the front of the folder. 2. Close the folder and glue the Why do leaves change color? poem
title onto the top of the front side. Glue the first paragraph above the square hole, and the second paragraph below the square hole.
3. Open the folder and glue the 3rd paragraph of the poem above the square hole (opposite the green cellophane square), and the 4th paragraph below the square hole.
4. Close the folder and turn it to the back. Place the leaf inside a baggie and tape the baggie to the back of the folder so the leaf is centered in the hole.
• Turn the folder back to the front. You should see the leaf behind the cellophane. Read the poem’s first two paragraphs. When the folder is opened the fall colors of the leaf will be revealed and the rest of the poem can be read.
• Folders can be hung in front of a window so that light can shine through the green cellophane window.
Why do Leaves Change Colors / Poem Title
Why do Leaves Change Colors?
Why do Leaves Change Colors?
Why do Leaves Change Colors?
Why do Leaves Change Colors?
Why do Leaves Change Colors?
Why do Leaves Change Colors?
Why do Leaves Change Colors?
Why do Leaves Change Colors?
Why do Leaves Change Colors? / Paragraphs 1 & 2
It’s chlorophyll that feeds the tree And makes the leaves look green. But underneath and out of view Are hues that can’t be seen.
The oak tree always lets me know When autumn has begun.
But why do its dark green leaves Change colors one by one?
It’s chlorophyll that feeds the tree And makes the leaves look green. But underneath and out of view Are hues that can’t be seen.
It’s chlorophyll that feeds the tree And makes the leaves look green. But underneath and out of view Are hues that can’t be seen.
The oak tree always lets me know When autumn has begun.
But why do its dark green leaves Change colors one by one?
The oak tree always lets me know When autumn has begun.
But why do its dark green leaves Change colors one by one?
It’s chlorophyll that feeds the tree And makes the leaves look green. But underneath and out of view Are hues that can’t be seen.
It’s chlorophyll that feeds the tree And makes the leaves look green. But underneath and out of view Are hues that can’t be seen.
The oak tree always lets me know When autumn has begun.
But why do its dark green leaves Change colors one by one?
The oak tree always lets me know When autumn has begun.
But why do its dark green leaves Change colors one by one?
It’s chlorophyll that feeds the tree And makes the leaves look green. But underneath and out of view Are hues that can’t be seen.
The oak tree always lets me know When autumn has begun.
But why do its dark green leaves Change colors one by one?
Why do Leaves Change Colors? / Paragraphs 3 & 4 When the summer ends at last,
And days grow short and cold, The chlorophyll then fades away,
Revealing flecks of gold.
When the summer ends at last, And days grow short and cold, The chlorophyll then fades away,
Revealing flecks of gold.
When all the chlorophyll is gone, Instead of green we see,
Lovely yellow, orange and red Bright leaves on the tree!
-‐-‐By Amy Goldman Koss
When all the chlorophyll is gone, Instead of green we see,
Lovely yellow, orange and red Bright leaves on the tree!
-‐-‐By Amy Goldman Koss
When the summer ends at last, And days grow short and cold, The chlorophyll then fades away,
Revealing flecks of gold.
When the summer ends at last, And days grow short and cold, The chlorophyll then fades away,
Revealing flecks of gold.
When all the chlorophyll is gone, Instead of green we see,
Lovely yellow, orange and red Bright leaves on the tree!
-‐-‐By Amy Goldman Koss
When all the chlorophyll is gone, Instead of green we see,
Lovely yellow, orange and red Bright leaves on the tree!
-‐-‐By Amy Goldman Koss
When the summer ends at last, And days grow short and cold, The chlorophyll then fades away,
Revealing flecks of gold.
When the summer ends at last, And days grow short and cold, The chlorophyll then fades away,
Revealing flecks of gold.
When all the chlorophyll is gone, Instead of green we see,
Lovely yellow, orange and red Bright leaves on the tree!
-‐-‐By Amy Goldman Koss
When all the chlorophyll is gone, Instead of green we see,
Lovely yellow, orange and red Bright leaves on the tree!
-‐-‐By Amy Goldman Koss
