Life on Earth

Welcome to Life on Earth!! 


The history of life on Earth is an amazing story!  Throughout life’s nearly four-billion-year past, countless forms have evolved and fallen to extinction.  From the tiniest of trilobites to the most spectacular of dinosaurs all life is related and all life has a history.

This course will address biological diversity and zoology.  The diversity of living organisms will be presented within an evolutionary context.    Relationships between form and function as well as relationships of organisms to their environments will also be addressed.

The course will get you outside (so come prepared!), partnering with the 2nd graders to develop the garden at Swift River as well as other joint ventures.
You'll also be participating in a new schoolyard ecology project through Harvard Forest, Changing Forests.  We'll set up study plots in the Belchertown Experimental Forest and catalog the properties of the site and calculate the carbon sequestered in the trees.

Changing Forests Schoolyard Ecology project through Harvard Forest
 http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/schoolyard-lter-program


Planning a Better Garden in New England
Start at ….
Mother Earth News:  An In-Depth Companion Planting Guide (link also on Life page of BEST)


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