Based on the acclaimed book
No Student Left Indoors:
Creating a Field Guide to
Your Schoolyard

Helping K-12 Teachers and students
to discover, explore, observe, and record the nature in their schoolyard. For urban, suburban, and rural schools.

Here are just a few of the exciting things you'll learn in Take A Wetlands Walk:

Lifecycles

Adaptations

Treasures

Habitats

Discovery


Learn about the lifecycle of amphibians. See how tadpoles become frogs and how to tell the difference between a male and female Bullfrog.


How do plants survive the acidic soil in bogs? What is brackish water and what kinds of plants can grow there? Learn about the plants and animals of various wetlands


Which plants and animals can you see in which wetlands? Learn where and when to look for plants and animals.


What makes a wetland a wetland? What's a bog? An estuary? A vernal pond? Are rivers and streams wetlands? Must wetlands always be wet? Learn this and more!


Learn how to identify the plants and animals of wetlands. Be surprised by the variety of species you can find. Take field notes. Write a journal. Have a great time learning about and exploring different wetlands.

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Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 5.6
Major Sections or Topics Vocabulary, Terms, and Phrases Worksheets

What is a wetland?
How are wetlands beneficial?
Lifecycle of a frog
All about Painted Turtles
What is a bog?
Exploring estuaries
Exploring salt marshes
Discovering freshwater marshes
Finding nature by streams
or rivers
Nature at the lake
About vernal ponds
Discovering swamps
Discovering the Everglades
Identifying birds
Identifying plants
Identifying Reptiles and Amphibians
Identifying Mammals
Identifying Insects

Adaptations
Amphibians
Bio-indicator
Bog
Brackish
Carapace
Carnivore
Emergent plants
Estuaries
Estuarine
Floater plants
Habitat
Halophytes
Hatchling
Hydric soil
Hydrophytic vegetation
Insectivore
Lacustrine
Lentic
Lotic
Marine
Marsh
Metamorphosis
Naturalist
Nocturnal
Non-native
Palustrine
Peat
Plastron
Prairie pothole
Riverine
Salt marsh
Species
Submergent plants
Vernal pond
Vertebrate
Watershed
Wetland Hydrology

Take Field Notes

Nature ID Page

Take A Wetlands Walk

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Take A Wetlands Walk redefines "water park". Be the first among your friends to discover tadpoles, identify waterfowl, and understand adaptations. This is your guide to exploring the fascinating world of North American wetlands. Discover different kinds of wetlands. Take field notes. Be amazed by the numbers of species of plants and animals you can find in and around wetlands. Become a wetlands naturalist. Explore for a few minutes, an hour, or a day! When you Take A Walk® with us, we change the way you see our world!

Take a Wetlands Walk
By Jane Kirkland
Price $9.95
Trim size: 8 ½ X 11
Page count: 32
Interior: 4 color
Photographs: 127
Illustrations: 19
User Level: Ages 8 and up
Category: Juvenile nonfiction
Pub date: October 2008
Imprint: Take a Walk® Books
Publisher: Stillwater Publishing