Kindergartners study Iowa’s natural habitats

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Perry Elementary School kindergarten students wend their way through the school's Outdoor Classroom holding the science notebooks they used to document their discoveries about Iowa's three habitats.

Cindy Blobaum, Dallas County Conservation Board Naturalist, explains the habitat needs of the Iowa bobcat to students in Christine Gage's kindergarten class at Perry Elementary School.
Cindy Blobaum, Dallas County Conservation Board Naturalist, explains the habitat needs of the Iowa bobcat to students in Christine Gage’s kindergarten class at Perry Elementary School.

Students in Christine Gage’s kindergarten class at the Perry Elementary School Students have been getting some hands-on experience in their unit on Iowa’s wetland, woodland and prairie habitats.

This week the young learners used the school’s Outdoor Classroom to learn about the woodland habitat. The class as a whole also created classroom displays each Iowa habitat, collecting or cutting out the different parts of each habitat.

Students also studied the animals of each habitat and added them to their displays, with a special visit from Dallas County Conservation Board Naturalist Cindy Blobaum.

Photos courtesy of Perry Elementary School.

Perry Elementary School kindergartners in Christine Gage's class created classroom displays for each of Iowa's three habitats,  woodlands, wetlands  and the now largely extinct tall grass prairie.
Perry Elementary School kindergartners in Christine Gage’s class created classroom displays for each of Iowa’s three habitats, woodlands, wetlands and the now largely extinct tall grass prairie.

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