Siskiyou Environmental Education Center
The Plant Kit explores local plant diversity and adaptations plants have to survive in the variety of ecosystems. Activities focus on methods that students may use to collect and preserve samples, methods for determining plant density and cover, and understanding how to use dichotomous keys.
Activities:
- Identifying Common Riparian Plants
- Identifying Common Oregon Conifers
- Plant Magic - Plant Adaptations
- Creating a Plant Identification Book
- Making a Plant press
- Scientific Records When Collecting Plants
- Nested Quadrants - Plant density Quadrants
- Plant Cover / Line Intercept
Books:
- The Lorax
- Pacific Coast Tree and Fern Finder
- Trees to Know in Oregon
- Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast
- Peterson’s Pacific States Wildflowers
- How Leaves Change
Resources:
- Eyewitness: Tree Video
- Eyewitness: Plant Video
- Classic Magnifiers
- Various Plant Information and Photo Cards
- Northwest Native Conifer Poster
- Northwest Broadleaf Plants and Trees Poster
- Various Cone Samples (Sugar, Incense Ceder, Knobcone, Port Orford, etc.)
- Various Lichens
- Various Dichotomous Cards
- Laminated Flower Pictures
- Tree trunk ring collection