Backyard (One Small Square)

Chapters

• 1 Introduction - discovering your backyard ecosystem p3-5
• 2 Activity: dig up and explore a square foot of your backyard p6-7
• 3 The Food Makers - leaves, pollen, bees, seeds p8-9
• 4 Backyard Notebook: record observations p9
• 5 Guests for Dinner - observing animals and birds p10-11
• 6 Backyard Notebook: observe, draw and record birds and animals p11
• 7 Life Cyclers - eggs, cocoons p12-13
• 8 Out in the Cold - observing your backyard in winter p14-15
• 9 Making a Living - how animals store food, what they eat p 16-19
• 10 Backyard Notebook: observe and record food, tracks and droppings of animals p17
• 11 Backyard Notebook: observe and draw leaves eaten by animals p19
• 12 Definitely Not a Golf Ball - mushrooms in your back yard p20-21
• 13 Activity: Leaf Rubbing p21
• 14 Activity: Growing Mold p21
• 15 Night Life - animals and insects at night p22-23
• 16 Litter Bugs - the decay of leaves, feeding the soil p24-27
• 17 Activity: catch a track p25
• 18 Watch out for Traps - cicada beetles, holes in the ground p28-29
• 19 Earthworms p30-31
• 20 Moles p32-33
• 21 Activity: catch some bugs in a jar and observe p33
• 22 Backyard Notebook: draw and observe earthworms p33
• 23 More than just dirt - roots and soil p34-35
• 24 Activity: dig up soil and observe texture, color, life
• 25 Activity: put soil in a jar with water, shake, watch sediments form p35
• 26 Nature in Action p36-37
• 27 Activity: create a mini backyard in a box with real soil and plants p36
• 28 Mammals and Birds p38-39
• 29 Insects, Arthropods and other Invertebrates p40-41
• 30 Plants, Protists, Monera, Fungi, Rocks p42-43