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Third Grade Rio Grande River Project

This group worked specifically on plants. Starting with general information about plants, they moved to a study of the plants of the Rio Grande River. A special thanks to the Rio Grande Nature Center for their varied resources and support!

FAST PLANTS PROJECT RESULTS Plants just a few days old.	Growing well under the plant light.	Getting ready to bloom.	Blooming at last!
They continued to grow even over winter vacation and in spite of cold room conditions.	Both of mine grew! The plants grown in soil found near the school AND the those grown in special potting soil.	Tending to plants: fertilizer, plant food and pollinating.	Dead plants!
	Sharing results with our wonderful partners at Kurihara-Kita Elementary School in Onomichi!	Video conferencing is cool!
Doing the River of Change activity from the Bosque Education Guide. We also used other games to learn about bosque plants and Cottonwoods. We learned how the Rio Grande River changed from being a wild river (Rio Bravo) to being tamed (Rio Manso). The first photo shows a wild river full of meanders and sand bars. As we added levees and jetty jacks, we straightened the river. It changed the habitats of many animals and plants. What will we do to improve the river, to get back some of what we have destroyed? What will Rio Nuevo be like?

The Rio Grande Nature Center Plant Trunk and speaker visit.

We learned about the different parts of plants and how they're used by people.

We learned about the different parts of plants and
what plants grow near the Rio Grande River.

VISITING THE RIO GRANDE NATURE CENTER (student photographs)

Views across the river.

Two Canadian Geese.

Sandbars and plant life.

A beaver has been here.

Aquatic wildlife of the Rio Grande.

alex bench

Collecting items to view under the microscope and completing a Naturalist Notebook.

Seeing, listening, feeling the bosque environment.

Drawing, writing haikus and investigating the riparian area of New Mexico.

gavin plant

I observed that this forb has a simple leaf pattern, the leaves are arranged in an alternate way, the leaves grow along the stem, and the leflets have a parallel vein pattern.

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Doing the River of Change activity from the Bosque Education Guide.

We also used other games to learn about bosque plants and Cottonwoods.