Name: __________________________ Date: ___________________ Section: ______
Botanical Garden Field Trip
Directions: As you walk around the Botanical Garden, appreciate nature’s beauty! You
can write and draw your observations on this page.
Plant Diversity: The Botanical Garden is full of plans that look very different. In this space, draw 5
(five) plants that look very different from one another. Write the name of each
plant.
Name:
Name:
Name:
Name:
Name:
Ecosystems: In ecosystems, living and nonliving things work together. In this space, draw an
example of some living and nonliving things working together. Label the living
and nonliving things in your drawing.
Living & Nonliving things working together:
Unique Plants: There are many plants in this garden that you might not have seen before. In this
space, draw one plant you have never seen before. Write its name.
Name:
A plant I have never seen before:
Botanical Garden Field Trip (page 2)
Foreign Plants: Some of the plants in this garden do not come from El Salvador. Look for plants that
come from different countries. Draw one plant that comes from far away. Write
what country it comes from originally.
Where it’s from:
A plant from another country:
Common Name
Scientific Name
Type of plant
Country of origin
Look at the bottom of the
white signs to find where
the plant comes from.
Humans’ Effect on Ecosystems:
Humans make big changes to ecosystems. In the Botanical Garden, you can hear, see, and smell
examples of some of the changes that humans have made to the natural environment around the
garden. Stop somewhere along the path. Write down all the things you see, smell, and hear.
What do you see?
What do you smell?
What do you hear?
Which of the things you wrote down are made by humans? __________________________________
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How do you think humans have changed this ecosystem? ___________________________________
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Draw a picture of what you think this ecosystem looked like 300 years ago, what it looks like
now, and what you think it will look like 300 years from now:
300 years ago:
Now:
300 years from now:
What was your favorite part of the Botanical Garden? _______________________________________
Why? _____________________________________________________________________________