| PART I THE MAP | |
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| For all of you that have always wanted to have "class outside"Let's Take a Tree Walk is your dream come true. Around campus fifteen trees have been given numbers. Working in groups of 3 or 4 people put together a map that identifies each tree and where each numbered tree is found. | |
| Pretend a stranger to the campus is using your map. Buildings and landmarks might be useful. Your map may be hand drawn, computer generated, cut out pictures, photos mounted in a pamphlet,on a poster or maybe on a peice of bark or whatever you like. Be creative! Use your imaginations! Be accurate. We are not looking to start a new Sole Survivor Contest! As a class we will be using each of your maps to guide us and identify each type of tree. |  |
| About this time You might be saying to yourself "How am I supposed to know what those trees are? That's why I'm taking this class." Be calm help is on the way. | |
 PART IITHE HERBARIUM | |
| Scientists have devised a way to catalogue and keep track of all the known plant species through the use of herbarium collections. An herbarium collection is an assortment of plant specimens. An herbarium specimen is a pressed, dried plant (or the important parts of a plant) which is glued or sewn onto a durable piece of paper. Also recorded on the sheet, the name of the plant, where it was found and other important information. If someone finds a species which cannot be identified, it can be sent as an herbarium specimen to a botanist who specializes in that particular plant family. If the experts are still unable to identify it and it is not found in any herbarium collection, then it is deemed to be a new species and a new scientific name will be assigned. |  |
| Working with the people in your group make a herbarium collection. Take a walk around campus and collect whatever samples you need to make the herbarium for each of the numbered trees. While the leaves are still fresh place them between several pieces of newspaper. Lay a phone book or several heavy books on top of the newspapers so that it completely covers the area taken up by the leaf. Put in a safe place. Someone thinking it was trash has accidentally thrown many projects away. You will be given a list of possible trees that can be identified on the campus. Not all the trees on the list will be used, but the list will be helpful in limiting the number of trees you must investigate on the websites. Use the following websites to help you identify each of the tree's leaves you have collected: What Tree Is It? Tree Identification University of Delaware Botanic Garden A Key To the Common Trees Tree Identification Tree Field Guide Tree Lore Tree Folklore More Tree Folklore |  |
| After pressing the leaves for one week put together, at home, a herbarium display for the class. This may be a pamphlet, a booklet, a poster or whatever form you decide. On your project list two economic uses for each of the trees you have identified. Inlcude in your Tree Walk presentation myths or legends about the trees. Your instructor will give you a date the project is due. |