Where Forest Meets Prairie focuses on the topics of communities, environmental factors, and adaptations. A community is a place where an assemblage of plants and animals live and meet their needs....
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Where Forest Meets Prairie focuses on the topics of communities, environmental factors, and adaptations. A community is a place where an assemblage of plants and animals live and meet their needs. The program explores an area where forest communities and grassland communities lie adjacent to one another in a patchwork or mosaic pattern. Environmental factors such as moisture, light, and temperature are investigated, along with adaptations, characteristics that help plants and animals to survive in their environment. Where Forest Meets Prairie is an activity-based examination of these topics. The program is divided into three sections: a pre-field study activity (conducted in the classroom) called Adapt - A - Human; a field study at the Montane Trail in Bow Valley Provincial Park where students conduct their own investigations; and in-class post-field activities.