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Day One: Feeling Mucky?
• Access prior knowledge by having students watch
the clip from BBC’s Planet Earth: Swamplands
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49cQ747WT
0U One of Earth’s best kept secrets is unveiled
through captivating footage. Narration by the
Horrocks'.
• Option: Also, show students the following gallery:
The10 Most Beautiful Swamps on Earth,
http://scribol.com/environment/10-mostbeautiful-swamps-on-earth
Feeling Mucky?
Discuss the perceptions and truth about swamp
characteristics.
Wet and Wild!
Discuss key aspects and critical
roles and importance of wetland
ecosystems such as swamps.
Wetland in a Pan
Through this activity students observe a simple
wetland/swamp model that demonstrates
wetland/swamp functions. The first part of the
procedure demonstrates how wetlands/swamps
prevent flooding and soil erosion.
The second part of the procedure demonstrates
how wetlands improve water quality by filtering
sediments and pollutants.
Day Two: Survivor Challenge!
Reclamation
• Students explore wetlands using websites.
• Then, make their own detailed model of the
wetland/swamp we’re traveling through using
small aluminum foil pans, clay, and florist’s
foam, carpet or sponges, and other craft
materials.
A Bubbling
Chocolaty
Swamp?
Students mix up and make the
chocolate slime and use it with
the pre-made bubbling slime
recipes as the base of their
swamp replicas.
Hold a contest to see which
tribe can make the most
realistic replica of the swamp.
This should be done after they
have visited some of the links
provided to learn even more
about swamps.
Day Three: What Bubbles Beneath?
Access Prior Knowledge by watching (Miniscule: The Monster Of
The Haunted Swamp) Букашки (2 сезон) 14. Монстр
заколдованного болота
http://vk.com/video225451863_166210850 and then compare
and contrast the treatment of monsters and swamps to a
swamp monster related story.
It’s Bedtime at the Swamp!
Discuss the
history and
universality of
swamp monster
tales as well as
the roles of
storytellers
throughout
time.
Swamp Mysteries: Cryptic Cryptids &
Will-o-the-Wisps
• Discuss the history and legends of
cryptids and legends that
students know.
• Show a clip of the wisps from
Pixar’s Brave [ex.
https://www.youtube.com/watch
?v=ymcen0EjmiU] and discuss the
roles of wisps in Scottish folklore
as well as their origins according
to myth, legend, and modern
science.
Cute and Creepy!
With a balanced blend of
cute and creepy
students draw/paint and
design a new swamp
creature (where does it
live, what is it called,
what/who does it eat?)
Then, use clay (possibly
paint) and their sculpting
skills to bring their own
swamp critter to life!
Keeping Track of the Facts
Students will have to
include an accompanying
scientific fact sheet/field
guide with a name, sketch,
description of what it eats
(food), how it drinks
(water), how it breathes
(air) where it lives (shelter),
and how it is built and
adapted perfectly (what
unique and interesting
features allow it) to survive
in the swamp, etc.
Day Four: Swamp Math Tag
Play fun math games that not only decrease
energy levels but increase learning!
It takes [math] skills to survive the swamp!