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Lesson Plan: Flowers and Grasses

-Bring in examples(subject to change depending on availability) of the following plants for the students to see, feel, and smell the native plants:

-Grasses:

• Switchgrass

• Little Bluestem

• Big Bluestem

• Indian Grass

• Prairie dropseed

-Wildlowers:

• Shooting Star

• Blue Aster

• Pale Purple Coneflower

• White Prairie Clover

• Rattle snake master

• Roundhead Bushclover

• Prairie Blazing star

• Great Solomon's Seal

• Black Eyed Susan

• Ohio Spiderwort

-Using our Naturalist Guides we will visit some areas (such as Nichol's park, Rockefeller's Native Plant's Garden, MSI, Jackson Park, etc.) to see the plants in their habitats.

-Students will then pick 3 grasses and 5 wildflowers that they will plant in their designated plot (See Plot On-going Lesson Plan).